[RndTbl] Desperate plea for help

[John Lange]

You can start here:

http://people.freebsd.org/~jcagle/hpacucli-readme

There is also official documentation available from the HP website. Due
to the insane amount of time it takes to find anything on the official
HP web site I'm not able to provide that link at the moment.

If you find your hardware you can go to the download section where the
tools are available along with the documentation.

Let me know if you need more help finding the right thing.

-- 
John Lange
http://www.johnlange.ca

On Mon, 2010-06-07 at 13:53 -0500, Kevin McGregor wrote:
> I'd like to know more about those command-line tools! I don't know
> when I'd need them again (never, I hope), but I'd rather be prepared!
> 
> On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 11:02 AM, John Lange <john at johnlange.ca> wrote:
>         HP has their own command line tools which have a lot more
>         features and
>         options than the BIOS does. I recently used them to turn two
>         single
>         disks into a RAID 1 on a live system with no data loss or
>         downtime.
>         
>         They also have a lot of querying tools for examining the raid
>         set etc.
>         
>         If you haven't already tried them I can find out some more
>         information.
>         
>         Regards
>         --
>         John Lange
>         http://www.johnlange.ca
>         
>         
>         On Fri, 2010-06-04 at 11:53 -0500, Kevin McGregor wrote:
>         > I've got a HP ProLiant server running OpenFiler, and due to
>         errors on
>         > my part, the SCSI drives got rearranged. Now the HP 6400
>         RAID
>         > controller complains that an "unsupported drive
>         rearrangement has been
>         > attempted", and the logical volume is missing. Is there any
>         way to
>         > recover the correct order of drives in the drive bay?
>         >
>         > It is a test server, so technically no big deal, but you
>         know how it
>         > is with "test" servers... It would be pretty annoying to
>         lose all the
>         > data.
>         >
>         > I've tried booting the 8.30 SmartStart and using the ADU/ACU
>         utility,
>         > but it doesn't seem to show anything useful for this. It
>         shows the
>         > controller and all drives being "uninitialized", not just
>         being out of
>         > order. The Option ROM utility also doesn't show anything.
>         >
>         > Suggestions, aside from "use software RAID next time"?
>         >
>         > Kevin
>         
>         
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