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Hardware RAID problems
Buffer I/O Errors
  If you receive the following messages listed in the example below, it could be related to a RAID Issue. Most of these errors could be found in dmesg or dmesg.2 or sent to you by email notification Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE ...
rating 13 Feb, 2009 Views: 13682
Expanding HW RAID units connected in a SW RAID unit on Open-E system does not work
Symptom: A User has united their hardware RAID units in Open-E SW RAID.  After adding additional disks to both of them and using the PV resize in the console the SW RAID, the unit is still the same size - new space cannot be used. Problem: The SW RAID does not support disk...
rating 18 Sep, 2008 Views: 4185
Unable to get SMART to work with a RAID controller
Problem:   I cannot get S.M.A.R.T. to work with my RAID controller. Solution: Our SMART support will only work with SATA drives plugged directly into the motherboard.  It will not work on drives plugged into a RAID controller.  However, please note that some external...
rating 18 Sep, 2008 Views: 3851
Why does DSS Lite say that my drive capacity is over the license limit?
This issue happens, typically, when you are using a RAID controller that is not a true hardware controller, but a RAID alternative known as ‘Fake RAID’. The Rocket RAID 1740 is a good example of a Fake RAID product, but there are many others which fall into this category. Reference...
rating 12 Aug, 2008 Views: 3251

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