How to manage the Adaptec AACRaid card using the arcconf management tool

 

To list the controller configuration and status use the following command.

/usr/StorMan/arcconf getconfig 1 al

Controllers found: 1
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Controller information
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   Controller Status                        : Optimal
   Channel description                      : SAS/SATA
   Controller Model                         : IBM ServeRAID 8k
   Controller Serial Number                 : 311234
   Physical Slot                            : 0
   Installed memory                         : 256 MB
   Copyback                                 : Disabled
   Background consistency check             : Enabled
   Automatic Failover                       : Enabled
   Defunct disk drive count                 : 0
   Logical devices/Failed/Degraded          : 1/0/0
   --------------------------------------------------------
   Controller Version Information
   --------------------------------------------------------
   BIOS                                     : 5.2-0 (17002)
   Firmware                                 : 5.2-0 (17002)
   Driver                                   : 1.1-5 (2455)
   Boot Flash                               : 5.1-0 (15421)
   --------------------------------------------------------
   Controller Battery Information
   --------------------------------------------------------
   Status                                   : Optimal
   Over temperature                         : No
   Capacity remaining                       : 100 percent
   Time remaining (at current draw)         : 3 days, 6 hours, 40 minutes

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Logical device information
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Logical device number 0
   Logical device name                      : Drive 1
   RAID level                               : 5
   Status of logical device                 : Optimal
   Size                                     : 279798 MB
   Stripe-unit size                         : 256 KB
   Read-cache mode                          : Enabled
   Write-cache mode                         : Enabled (write-back)
   Write-cache setting                      : Enabled (write-back) when protected by battery
   Partitioned                              : Yes
   Protected by Hot-Spare                   : No
   Bootable                                 : Yes
   Failed stripes                           : Yes
   --------------------------------------------------------
   Logical device segment information
   --------------------------------------------------------
   Segment 0                                : Present (0,3) 3NM4NLRY
   Segment 1                                : Present (0,1) 3NM4PTTG
   Segment 2                                : Present (0,2) P6XAZGLB


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Physical Device information
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      Device #0
         Device is a Hard drive
         State                              : Online
         Supported                          : Yes
         Transfer Speed                     : SAS 3.0 Gb/s
         Reported Channel,Device            : 0,1
         Reported Location                  : Enclosure 0, Slot 1
         Reported ESD                       : 2,0
         Vendor                             : IBM-ESXS
         Model                              : ST9146802SS
         Firmware                           : B522
         Serial number                      : 3NM4PTTG
         World-wide name                    : 5000C50006479P72
         Size                               : 140013 MB
         Write Cache                        : Disabled (write-through)
         FRU                                : 43X0829
         S.M.A.R.T.                         : No
      Device #1
         Device is a Hard drive
         State                              : Online
         Supported                          : Yes
         Transfer Speed                     : SAS 3.0 Gb/s
         Reported Channel,Device            : 0,2
         Reported Location                  : Enclosure 0, Slot 2
         Reported ESD                       : 2,0
         Vendor                             : IBM-ESXS
         Model                              : CBRBA146C3ETS0 N
         Firmware                           : C49C
         Serial number                      : P6XAZGLB
         World-wide name                    : 5000CCA000984G27
         Size                               : 140013 MB
         Write Cache                        : Disabled (write-through)
         FRU                                : 43X0825
         S.M.A.R.T.                         : No
      Device #2
         Device is a Hard drive
         State                              : Online
         Supported                          : Yes
         Transfer Speed                     : SAS 3.0 Gb/s
         Reported Channel,Device            : 0,3
         Reported Location                  : Enclosure 0, Slot 0
         Reported ESD                       : 2,0
         Vendor                             : IBM-ESXS
         Model                              : ST9146802SS
         Firmware                           : B522
         Serial number                      : 3NM4NLRY
         World-wide name                    : 5000C50006095F56
         Size                               : 140013 MB
         Write Cache                        : Disabled (write-through)
         FRU                                : 43X0829
         S.M.A.R.T.                         : No
      Device #3
         Device is an Enclosure services device
         Reported Channel,Device            : 2,0
         Enclosure ID                       : 0
         Type                               : SES2
         Vendor                             : IBM
         Model                              : SAS SES-2 DEVICE
         Firmware                           : 1.10
         Status of Enclosure services device
            Temperature                     : Normal


Command completed successfully.

 

To check for disk errors and attempt to fix them use the following command.

/usr/StorMan/arcconf task start 1 logicaldrive 0 verify_fix

 

To vew the status of running tasks such as a verify_fix task use the following command.

/usr/StorMan/arcconf getstatus 1

Controllers found: 1
Logical device Task:
   Logical device                 : 0
   Task ID                        : 105
   Current operation              : Build/Verify
   Status                         : In Progress
   Priority                       : High
   Percentage complete            : 2


Command completed successfully.

 

To update the controller firmware and BIOS download the firmware update software from Adaptec website and run it as shown below.

./ibm_fw_aacraid_8k-8kl-5.2.0-17002_linux_32-64.bin -s

Found 1 ServeRAID Controller(s)

Getting configuration for Controller 1.  Please wait....

Controller 1 is a ServeRAID 8k or 8k-l Controller

Attempting to flash controller 1!

Updating Controller 1.  Please wait....

./arcconf romupdate 1 as4810 noprompt

Controllers found: 1

You must restart the system for firmware updates to take effect.

Updating controller 1 firmware...Succeeded
A new software image has been applied to controller 1.


Command completed successfully.
Successfully flashed controller 1!