Hi, I've aproblem with a Fedora Core 4 on a Dell Poweredge 2500
machine. This system has 6 physical discs which are distributed in the
following configuration:

4 disks for "/" - RAID5
2 disks for "/backup" - RAID1

I cannot access in write mode to the RAID5 filesystem even as a root
and all applications which require store data are failing. I remember
the old administrator solve this with some fsck's...

Assuming that I'll solve it for the moment in the same way as the old
admin, how could I determine which disk is failing? Can you recommend
me some RAID manager for DELL/PERC systems?

Thank you!

On 6 Mar 2006 09:05:02 -0800, "Derek" <derekmailbox@gmail.com> wrote:

> I remember
>the old administrator solve this with some fsck's...

Check local opportunities for pizza delivery

Grant.
--
Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't make eight cats pull
a sled through the snow.

Hi Grant, it was not so bad... It's already fixed but I would like to
solve this problem definitively before I need the pizza... I've a lot
of spare disks from other servers now retired... The second option is
replace the 4 disks one by one

Derek wrote:
> Hi, I've aproblem with a Fedora Core 4 on a Dell Poweredge 2500
> machine. This system has 6 physical discs which are distributed in the
> following configuration:
>
> 4 disks for "/" - RAID5
> 2 disks for "/backup" - RAID1
>
> I cannot access in write mode to the RAID5 filesystem even as a root
> and all applications which require store data are failing. I remember
> the old administrator solve this with some fsck's...
>
> Assuming that I'll solve it for the moment in the same way as the old
> admin, how could I determine which disk is failing? Can you recommend
> me some RAID manager for DELL/PERC systems?
>
> Thank you!
>

With great difficulty I typed:

dell raid linux

into google and got:

http://linux.dell.com/storage.shtml

See if that helps any.

We run our 2550's Dells with RAID5. I haven't had a need for
the mgmt utilities though.

Thanks...