mpt-status For SuSE Linux

mpt-status is a command line utility to check the RAID status for LSI 1030 RAID controllers. Now can someone tell me why in the hell SuSE Linux Enterprise bothers to come with a version of mpt-status that doesn’t work with the Linux kernel that SuSE Linux uses???

It’s basically like bundling some application with Windows XP, but the application only works on Windows 98 or earlier.

Really annoying man…

After an hour of screwing around with it, I finally got it to work (I intentionally broke the RAID mirror to test the rebuild)…

# mpt-status ioc0 vol_id 0 type IM, 2 phy, 136 GB, state DEGRADED, flags ENABLED RESYNC_IN_PROGRESS ioc0 phy 0 scsi_id 0 SEAGATE ST3146854LC D403, 136 GB, state ONLINE, flags OUT_OF_SYNC ioc0 phy 1 scsi_id 1 SEAGATE ST3146854LC D403, 136 GB, state ONLINE, flags NONE

Now if it would just tell me what percentage of the resync is done… Oh well, can’t have EVERYTHING I guess.

Update

I should have also mentioned you need to run the following command to register the RAID controller with the kernel…

/sbin/modprobe mptctl

This entry was posted by Shawn on June 4, 2006 at 6:08 pm, and is filed under Server Admin. Follow any responses to this post through RSS 2.0.You can leave a response or trackback from your own site.

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#1 written by Lindsay Keir 6 years ago

Wouldn’t you just add the line mptctl to /etc/modules and have it done during the boot?
Maybe not – I use Kubuntu, not Suse, but this is how I added support for FUSE filesystems

… Sorry this comment is so late.

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#2 written by Shawn 6 years ago

Yeah you could of course do that too. I just threw it directly into my script that runs periodically to check raid health only because I wanted something that would ALWAYS work (maybe there is some future SuSE update that overwrites /etc/modules (or however else you choose to do it at boot) and then you have a problem.

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#3 written by Jean Delvare 6 years ago

Can you give some details on how exactly the version of mpt-status coming with Suse was failing, and how you finally got it yo work?

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#4 written by Shawn 6 years ago

The version that came with SuSE would not give any output (or even an error) when you run it. The version I finally got working was version 1.1.6 and had to be built from source.

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#5 written by Oliver 5 years ago

Can you give me a hint how to rebuild the raid? I’m running a remote server with the same LSI h/w raid and one hdd is marked as ‘failed’ and flagged ‘OUT_OF_SYNC’.
As mpt-status is just a status, which tools can be used to rebuild the raid?

Thx,

Oliver

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#6 written by dam 5 years ago

Hello,

What do you do to break your RAID mirror?

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#7 written by Alec Matusis 4 years ago

Just a question- did this “RESYNC_IN_PROGRESS” ever finish? how long did you have to wait?
I lost my patience after a few hours, rebooted, pressed Ctr+C went into LSI configuration, and clicked on

After that, I rebooted, and it instantly came up with:
ioc0 vol_id 0 type IM, 2 phy, 136 GB, state OPTIMAL, flags ENABLED
ioc0 phy 0 scsi_id 0 SEAGATE ST3146855LC D506, 136 GB, state ONLINE, flags NONE
ioc0 phy 1 scsi_id 1 SEAGATE ST3146855LC D506, 136 GB, state ONLINE, flags NONE

So I wonder if this RESYNC_IN_PROGRESS is real, or it just never finishes?

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#8 written by Alec Matusis 4 years ago

Clicked on “Synchronize Whole Mirror” in LSI configuration that is

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