Hi folks, in the last few days I have come across an issue running smartmontools-5.38 with the series 2, 5 and 5Z controllers on firmware 17380 onwards with SATA drives.
Just a bit of background ..
By default (configurable using the expose_physicals module options parameter), the aacraid driver exposes the physical disks attached to the controller to […]

Hi folks, I have had a number of questions both from the blog and also directly from customers regarding better support for Debian based OS’s.
Thanks to Vincent for his recent comment ..
Vincent wrote :-
“I’d really like to see some official support for Debian based systems. All the supported systems have a common root. I’d imagine […]

I have had a few questions recently on how to update the aacraid driver in Ubuntu and wanted to share the procedure I use as the readme in our source code downloads is confusing for Debian type distributions.
In general, the aacraid driver uses a family match approach to identify RAID cards using ARC (Adaptec RAID […]

Anssi asked :-
 Is there any way to get the full SMART info from a SATA harddisk connected to Adaptec 21610SA RAID adapter?
The usual “smartctl -a /dev/sdX” command fails with aacraid driver.
Hi Anssi, thanks for this question, I’ve been meaning to post some information on this as its a question I’ve had from a few of […]

Jason Emanuel wrote:-
I’m trying to get a 1220SA sata raid controller card working under Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy. I have a copy of the adp3132.rhel4.x86_64.rpm but I cannot seem to get it to install. Can someone point me in the right direction? I’ve gone so far as to unzip the rpm and I’m poking around through […]

Kavan Wrote:-
I installed Adaptec Storage Manager Ver 5.20 in a RHEL5 machine. A RAID 10 array is configured and attached to a HostRAID ESB2 controller.
I can see the controller and the array using the GUI. But arcconf doesn’t see controller. For example, ‘./arcconf GETSTATUS 0′ results in ‘Controllers found: 0. Invalid controller number.’.
Kavan,
Since you […]

How do I update the BIOS of my Adaptec 3405 from Adaptec Storage Manager on Ubuntu server? I don’t want to have to reboot to DOS?

Brendan asks: What does this generally mean when the Adaptec AAC BIOS says this?Booting the controller Kernel…controller started
error: controller kernel stopped running
<press any key to continue…>
Controller Adaptec 4800SAS…
Controller Kernel panic
unknown firmware error error code:EF
<press any key to continue…>
….
Controller not started
Bios not installed
PXE-E61 mediq test failure,check cable
OS not found..TIA - you’re always a great help.
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