Compaq Proliant DL-360 G3
Long story short: Was running Debian 3.0 on a Compaq Proliant DL-360 G3 with a SmartArray 5i we have and both the drives in its RAID-1 array died all within the same day. :(
Initial thoughts were to simply "copy" the drive contents from our production web server, as the two servers are identical hardware-wise and nearly identical software-wise (except for some minor configuration differences), by having our web server rebuild the array on a replacement disk and use that then to create/build the array on our other server. Just about everything I tried did not work. I am familiar to other RAID controllers (PATA and SATA) where there is an option in the controller to create an array and then copy drive contents from a 'source' disk to a 'destination' disk and not overwrite the data on the source disk. I did not see this option, unless I'm missing something.
My questions are thus:
1. Is there an option to create/copy an array using data on one disk and be duplicated to another with a Compaq SmartArray 5i controller? The times I have tried this the system complains that it does not have a logical drive specified and when I do create one, there is no option to "create and duplicate" to another drive in the array. And then all the data on the 'source' drive is gone (I'm assuming the file allocation table is overwritten and not the actual data) and I'm back to square one again. It would be very easy and relatively painless if I could get a bootable system and simply restore the working files to this box than have to completely reinstall the OS.
2. Is there an ISO image of the first disk of Debian "Woody" with the Compaq SmartArray 5i controller already compiled into the install kernel? The biggest pain of installing on a Compaq Proliant DL-360 is that the stock Debian kernel doesn't have it already and it is a several step process and a PITA to have to install an initial system, compile from source a vanilla kernel with SmartArray drivers, and then be able to finally install the rest of the system. Group pages (one, two) for the Compaq/HP servers running Debian have been sparse on details if one exits. I'm even open to ISO images of Debian "Sarge" so long as the SmartArray drivers are compiled into the Linux kernel.
Thanks in advance for any help/ideas anyone can provide. Cross-posted to
debian
Initial thoughts were to simply "copy" the drive contents from our production web server, as the two servers are identical hardware-wise and nearly identical software-wise (except for some minor configuration differences), by having our web server rebuild the array on a replacement disk and use that then to create/build the array on our other server. Just about everything I tried did not work. I am familiar to other RAID controllers (PATA and SATA) where there is an option in the controller to create an array and then copy drive contents from a 'source' disk to a 'destination' disk and not overwrite the data on the source disk. I did not see this option, unless I'm missing something.
My questions are thus:
1. Is there an option to create/copy an array using data on one disk and be duplicated to another with a Compaq SmartArray 5i controller? The times I have tried this the system complains that it does not have a logical drive specified and when I do create one, there is no option to "create and duplicate" to another drive in the array. And then all the data on the 'source' drive is gone (I'm assuming the file allocation table is overwritten and not the actual data) and I'm back to square one again. It would be very easy and relatively painless if I could get a bootable system and simply restore the working files to this box than have to completely reinstall the OS.
2. Is there an ISO image of the first disk of Debian "Woody" with the Compaq SmartArray 5i controller already compiled into the install kernel? The biggest pain of installing on a Compaq Proliant DL-360 is that the stock Debian kernel doesn't have it already and it is a several step process and a PITA to have to install an initial system, compile from source a vanilla kernel with SmartArray drivers, and then be able to finally install the rest of the system. Group pages (one, two) for the Compaq/HP servers running Debian have been sparse on details if one exits. I'm even open to ISO images of Debian "Sarge" so long as the SmartArray drivers are compiled into the Linux kernel.
Thanks in advance for any help/ideas anyone can provide. Cross-posted to
debian 