See also Monitoring LSI SAS RAID Controllers on Linux

http://thatlinuxbox.com/blog/article.php/lsi-megaraid-megacli

Download the MegaCLI archive from LSI and upload it to the desired Linux server. You can't use wget any more…

Install MegaCLI:

mkdir ~/MegaCLI
cd ~/MegaCLI

# copy the MegaCLI archive here

unzip 8.07.06_MegaCLI.zip

rpm -Uvh Linux/MegaCli-8.07.06-1.noarch.rpm

The path to MegaCLI may not be added during installation, so you might just change into the directory containing the binaries and preface commands with “./”:

cd /opt/MegaRAID/MegaCli/

If you are on a 64-bit platform, you may need to use MegaCli64 instead of MegaCli

In the following examples, we assume only one controller is installed and use -a0 for “Adapter 0”. If you have multiple RAID cards, you will need to specify which card to operate on.

./MegaCli -AdpSetProp -AlarmSilence -a0

You have to escape the brackets and braces needed by some commands.

To manipulate a particular physical device, address it by enclosure and slot:

Disk info for drive on port 6:

./MegaCli -pdInfo -PhysDrv \[252:6\] -aALL

Display all information about all RAID adapter / settings:

./MegaCli -AdpAllinfo -aALL

Display information about all physical drives:

./MegaCli -PDList -aALL

Display information about all logical / virtual drives:

./MegaCli -LDGetProp -LALL -aALL

Removing a drive and putting it right back onto the same RAID controller will cause the drive to marked as “Foreign”. A drive in the “Foreign” state is not usable in an array.

See the detailed section here: http://thatlinuxbox.com/blog/article.php/lsi-megaraid-megacli

Find the drive that is not “Online” which should be the newly replaced drive by showing the first few lines of output for each drive:

./MegaCli -PDList -aALL | grep --before-context=12 Firmware

./MegaCli -PDMakeGood -PhysDrv \[E:S\] -aALL

Drives (arrays) from another controller (in a “Foreign” state) can be imported and used. However, if you just want to reuse a drive, you have to clear the “Foreign” state before you can use it again:

./MegaCli -CfgForeign -Clear -a0

Make this unconfigured drive a hot spare:

./MegaCli -PDHSP -Set -PhysDrv \[E:S\] -a0

Verify RAID rebuild in progress:

./MegaCli -pdrbld -showprog -physdrv\[E:S\] -a0

or display a continuous text-gui rebuild status:

./MegaCli -pdrbld -progdsply -physdrv\[E:S\] -a0

Change the adapter rebuild rate to 60%:

./MegaCli -AdpSetProp \{RebuildRate -60\} -a0

Create a single disk (RAID 0):

./MegaCli -CfgLdAdd -r0 \[252:6\] -a0

Create a two-disk (RAID 1):

./MegaCli -CfgLdAdd -r1 \[252:6,252:7\] -a0

In some circumstances, the OS can’t see the new drive when using fdisk -l. Try forcing a SCSI bus rescan:

echo "- - -" > /sys/class/scsi_host/host0/scan

You may need to find the proper host#:

cat /sys/class/scsi_host/host0/proc_name
cat /sys/class/scsi_host/host1/proc_name
cat /sys/class/scsi_host/host2/proc_name

Supermicro FAQ: http://www.supermicro.com/support/faqs/faq.cfm?faq=11360

Supermicro Firmware: ftp://ftp.supermicro.com/driver/SAS/LSI/2108/Firmware/2.130.363-1846/

LSI Downloads: http://www.lsi.com/channel/support/Pages/download-search.aspx

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2229711

http://brycv.com/blog/2012/flashing-it-firmware-to-lsi-sas9211-8i/

1. Install the MegaCLI package (per above)
2. Copy the firmware image to the directory containing MegaCLI
   • You can probably use it anywhere, but it's safer to have it on the machine being flashed
3. Flash the adapter
4. Reboot

./MegaCli -AdpFwFlash -f smc2108.rom -a0

http://www.lsi.com/downloads/Public/Advanced%20Software/LSI%20MegaRAID%20CacheCade%20Software/megaraid-cachecade-user-guide.pdf

Create a CacheCade software virtual drive that functions as a secondary tier of cache:

1. Enter the LSI card's WebBIOS
2. Select Configuration Wizard
3. Select Add Configuration
4. Select CacheCade - SSD Caching Configuration
5. Select an SSD drive from the left frame and click Add To Array
6. Click Accept DG
7. Click Select Array
8. Select a Drive Group and click Accept
9. Accept the final configuration