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  1. Bug #194207
  2. Comment #6

Comment 6 for bug 194207

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davekempe (dave-solutionsfirst) wrote :

Yeah I am still using the machines in question for pretty heavy I/O load (they are dedicated storage servers for an OpenVZ cluster). They are running RAID5 from the card. Can't remember the specs on it, if I could run the CLI tool I would tell you. But its a definite regression in that if the CLI tool doesn't work anymore, then we can't monitor the RAID for failures, and then don't know if a drive has failed. btw, just so everyone knows, there is a couple of nagios plugins to monitor this card using the CLI tool here:

http://www.nagiosexchange.org/Search_Projects.43.0.html?tx_netnagext_pi1%5Bphrase%5D=areca&tx_netnagext_pi1%5Bsubmit%5D=search&tx_netnagext_pi1%5Bsearch%5D=1

(sorry about the massive url).

I don't get any other errors out of the cards unless I run the tool. Of course areca may release a different version of CLI64 that makes the problem go away as well.
For my money, I would try and get the latest drive into the Hardy kernel though.