Managing Arrays
Like many other hardware vendors, LSI Logic does not provide a way to manage arrays from within Linux. Dell has ported the MS-DOS version of the MegaRAID Configuration Utility to Linux, but if you use it, don’t expect support from LSI Logic or Dell. Since Dell only uses certain LSI Logic controllers in its servers, you might experience varied results when using Dell’s MegaRAID management utility. I recommend searching the Web to read about other users’ experiences with the controller you purchased to find out if an undocumented bug destroys the information on your disks, or worse.
Download the utility from Matt Domsch’s Linux web page (http://www.domsch.com/linux/). Using the utility is very straightforward; it’s a statically compiled binary and works the same as the BIOS utility.
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