Poweredge 1800, dual xeon 3ghz HT. Yes it's old but it serves my purpose (SMB, DLNA, dedicated timed Print client [cron job]). bought it for $200 off my old boss many years back.
Ok so linux Raid is good, I've been using it for quite some time. But this time it's just not working right. I tried adding a matching drive and partition to the array and it said that even though I made matching partitions, mdadm seems to think the joining on is "too small" (albeit partition has same number of blocks). I use number of blocks + 1 and it adds it, but the second partition now has one less needed to add, and refuses to add.
I have a SAS Dell Raid card (LSI Based) PCI-E x8 I haven't been using in forever. It's completely hardware (Can't do Raid 5, but I just need 1)
This card is Sata II, onboard is Sata I. It's LSI based, has a good amount of cache, which actually worries me cause there is no battery option on the card and no UPS on the server. Mind you I don't often write, just keep it for my tools, software, iso images (for windows installs mostly), games, liquid mind mp3's to sleep (minidlna to a roku 1 with rca outs hooked to my receiver)
Is there any way to manage this raid card remotely with a linux tool to do the equivalent? like...with a web interface? I know there are command line ones. Mind you this is ubuntu server 18.04, no gui.
it only has ipmi 1.5, which is limited, so, the only other possible is a DRAC card, and I don't want to pay for one
did a bunch of research and returned with nothing. Anyone know of an alternative solution?
Ok so linux Raid is good, I've been using it for quite some time. But this time it's just not working right. I tried adding a matching drive and partition to the array and it said that even though I made matching partitions, mdadm seems to think the joining on is "too small" (albeit partition has same number of blocks). I use number of blocks + 1 and it adds it, but the second partition now has one less needed to add, and refuses to add.
I have a SAS Dell Raid card (LSI Based) PCI-E x8 I haven't been using in forever. It's completely hardware (Can't do Raid 5, but I just need 1)
This card is Sata II, onboard is Sata I. It's LSI based, has a good amount of cache, which actually worries me cause there is no battery option on the card and no UPS on the server. Mind you I don't often write, just keep it for my tools, software, iso images (for windows installs mostly), games, liquid mind mp3's to sleep (minidlna to a roku 1 with rca outs hooked to my receiver)
Is there any way to manage this raid card remotely with a linux tool to do the equivalent? like...with a web interface? I know there are command line ones. Mind you this is ubuntu server 18.04, no gui.
it only has ipmi 1.5, which is limited, so, the only other possible is a DRAC card, and I don't want to pay for one
did a bunch of research and returned with nothing. Anyone know of an alternative solution?
Comment