LSI raidctl disk inquiry
Hi-
I have a bunch of V40z's, two internal drives, mirrored using the raidctl utility. Our end customer requires the ability to determine serial numbers of drives. Normally a format would dump this out, but with raidctl active it just shows a single "virtual drive" without serial number. A raidctl on its own shows nothing as well. Any ideas what may work other than using the LSI bios utility to read it or pulling the drives out (downtime = bad)?
Thanks
Dom
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domburns] at [2007-11-26 10:02:16]
# 1
I was looking at this thread for a while, but no answers from anyone so far! I'd be looking for the yellow system record sheet for the serial numbers ( eg drives, dvd, dimms etc. ), each customer receives this item with the hardware when delivered from Sun.
# 2
Well, the yellow sheets are ok for the as delivered configuration, but the end customer requires annual configuration checks. So we need to account for drive failures, upgrades, etc... I suppose we could break the mirror, then use format to get the serial numbers and then remirror, but that puts the system at risk.
Thanks
# 3
A number of systems that I have been involved with maintaining, the customer has implemented hard and soft maintenance record logs. The administrators and hardware support people must change the entries with every change to the system ( both hardware and patches etc. ). Copies of this data can be kept securely on and off site. This type of ' house keeping ' is quite common with US multinationals and is usually implemented when the hardware first arrives from the manufacturer. You can get an idea of this type of log from some published Sun Microsystems documentation ( I recall midrange system documentation contains this type of data ). Unfortunately it isn't always convenient to take a system down to record component serial numbers, perhaps if you start a good system component record protocol now there will ne no need to break the mirrors in future.
