Can you check the aacraid driver version (modinfo aacraid)? SuSE 10.3 should have a reasonably up to date drive shipping “in box”.

The 2020 is a fairly old product now so hasn’t received any updates on our support site for some time however ASM is generally backwards compatible with older controllers - just they aren’t included in our test matrix (so not officially supported).

You might want to try downloading and installing the latest ASM for 64 bit Linux from here …

http://www.adaptec.com/en-US/speed/raid/storage_manager/asm_linux_x64_v6_10_18359_rpm.htm

After installation, the arcconf CLI utility is present in /usr/StorMan. It uses some libraries in the /usr/StorMan directory so you might want to add this directory to an appropriate ldconfig.conf.d file and run ldconfig.

The user guide for the CLI is here

http://download.adaptec.com/pdfs/user_guides/CLI_v6_10_Users_Guide.pdf

Most people I work with who are not using a GUI take advantage of the remote management feature of ASM. Go ahead and install the downloaded ASM on your server without the GUI. Install ASM on another system which does have a GUI (e.g. your workstation, OS doesn’t matter) and on this system, right click on direct attached storage -> add remote system, enter the IP address, root user and password for the system you are managing.

Alternatively, you can just use the arcconf utility which allows you to create / manage arrays. You would have to check the array status manually as the tool polls only when it is run.

If you are interested in running ASM remotely you might want to take a look at the other posting

“How do I get Adaptec Storage Manager to work with Ubuntu 7.10?”

Where a lot of helpful comments have been added by kind contributors.

Hope this helps - if not do come back to me

thanks, Phil

I’ve got a 2020SA card installed on opensuse 10.3 (64 bits). The first installation of ASM (4.30) was so bad (program didn’t find any raid card neither any disk) that I uninstalled the ASM. Looking for more information I got that while using kernel stock driver (aacraid) instead of Adaptec’s one, ASM will not work.

Now I see this blog-post, which suggest me something has changed. So:

1) Which version of ASM is the right to install for “Adaptec Serial ATA RAID 2020SA”

2) Can ASM be runned from command line and what operations are available (array reconstruction/rebuild, array status…)? I have no java neither any X server running on the server

3) Is there any manual for “arcconf” utility I can donwload?

4) Could be possible to install only arcconf instead the whole ASM package?

Thanks.