Albert writes:

Working for a client who has a 2110S installed under Slackware Linux. They would like to rebuild a broken RAID-1 array without shutting down and rebooting the server (to use SMOR). I have been unable to find a Storage Manager download on the Adaptec website that lists support for the 2110S. Can you provide a URL to an appropriate distribution of Storage Manager? Thanks in advance!

The following suggestions are untested, any RAID manipulation carried out incorrectly will lead to loss of data.

The 2110S belongs to the Babylon class of RAID controllers.. This family of Adapters includes all the DPT I2O based controllers and the Adaptec Babylon 3210S, 3410S, 2000S, 2005S, 2010S, 2015S, 2100S, 2110S & 2400A. You will find that Storage Manager products for any one of these adapters will generally work for the entire family, albeit the specific versions may have not been specifically tested together.

In that vein, you may wish to try the Storage Manager for the 2400A located at http://www.adaptec.com/en-US/downloads/storage_manager/sm?productId=AAR-2400A&dn=Adaptec+ATA+RAID+2400A; but I suspect you will need to search for compatibility libraries in your version of Linux as the last build of this product was for RedHat 7.3 (a 2.4 based kernel).

It should not matter if you are using the dpt_i2o or the i2o_block Linux drivers, the ioctls are compatible with the dpteng middleware that ties all the management utilities together and acts as the traffic cop that communicates to the Adapters.

Also, Markus Lidel, the author of the i2o_block driver, was kind enough to continue to support our raidutil, the Storage Manager Command Line Utility, under Linux. We had released raidutil and the dpteng middleware into the public domain. You will find his effort located at http://i2o.shadowconnect.com/download.php. We could not release the GUI portion into the public domain because of Library Licensing issues with a third party. The dpteng middleware that is part of Marcus’ package is supposed to be compatible with the GUI.

Good Luck!

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