Brian wrote :-

 I have a server running 64bit Ubuntu 7.10 with a 2020ZCR using the aacraid kernel module. I’m trying to figure out how to check the status of the array, but I have been unable to find anything that works. Does Adaptec have some sort of utility that I can use?

That’s a great question Brian and thanks for submitting it. As it happens, I’ve just responded to Philippe from France who was asking something similar although there are a few differences since you are using an earlier product.

Under Storage Manager downloads for the 2020ZCR on our support site, version 4.30 build 16038 of Adaptec Storage Manager is listed however I would suggest using the newer 5.20 build 17414 version for Linux x64 which is posted under our later products. You can download this from any of the newer Unified Serial products for example here :-

http://www.adaptec.com/en-US/downloads/storage_manager/sm?productId=SAS-3405&dn=Adaptec+RAID+3405 

The newer version resolves an issue when converting the downloaded rpm file to deb format using the “alien” command - with version 4.30, alien doesn’t recognise the machine architecture x86_64 as valid, it is expecting amd64. Secondly the later version ships with the libraries that Adaptec Storage Manager needs to use and drops the dependency on having the right version of libstdc++ installed.

If after downloading, you can follow the steps in my response to Philippe (titled “How do I get Adaptec Storage Manager to work with Ubuntu 7.10?”) then it should work.

You didn’t mention if you were using the graphical desktop. If you are then you could use the GUI interface as described in my other note. If not, then you can still monitor the array using either the arcconf command line utility or you can install ASM on a different machine which does have a graphical desktop (Linux or Windows) and add the Ubuntu machine as a remotely managed system (in this case, if you are using the firewall, you may need to open port 34571).

Please do come back to let us know how this goes.

Thanks for reading,

 Phil

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