TS130 RAID Status

I am running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Server on a headless TS130. I've got my operating system on a single SSD and my data on a RAID Array consisting of two 2TB drives in a RAID 1 configuration.
Everything is running perfectly, however I am wondering how I would know if there is a problem with the RAID Array... for instance if one of the drives failed and needed to be swapped out, how do I know? Ubuntu recognizes the drives as a RAID array, but there is not a "driver" or a utiility for checking the status of the hardware RAID Array.
Thanks in advance for your help!

I believe upon boot, it will flash a screen looking similar to your BIOS that gives the status of your raid configuration, It only holds for a few seconds but the text is either Green, Yellow, or I assume red based off of the status.

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Current Version
===============
UDI: C680 V FCH1611V0B2
Name: C680
Product: Cisco IronPort C680 Messaging Gateway(tm) Appliance
Model: C680
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RAID Type: 10
BMC: 1.05
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Current Version
===============
UDI: C170 V01 FCH1428V06A
Name: C170
Description: Cisco IronPort C170
Product: Cisco IronPort C170 Messaging Gateway(tm) Appliance
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Version: 7.6.3-019
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Welcome to the WD Community.
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I Have the next status on WSA
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Degraded
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If a problem persists, replace the damaged disk and click Rebuild to rebuild the RAID set.
Use the First Aid pane to repair the RAID disk, then check the RAID set to see if it still reports an error. If the problem is still present, quit and reopen Disk Utility, select the RAID disk, and click RAID. Check the RAID set to see if it still reports an error. You may need to restart your computer.
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[SOLVED] RAID status

Last night I created a raid5 array using mdadm and 5 x 3TB hdd's. I let the sync happen overnight and on returning home this evening
watch -d cat /proc/mdstat
returned:
Personalities : [raid6] [raid5] [raid4]
md0 : active raid5 sda1[0] sdc1[2] sde1[5] sdb1[1] sdd1[3]
11720536064 blocks super 1.2 level 5, 512k chunk, algorithm 2 [5/5] [UUUUU]
bitmap: 2/22 pages [8KB], 65536KB chunk
unused devices: <none>
which to me pretty much looks like the array sync is completed.
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mdadm --assemble --scan
mkfs.ext4 -v -L offsitestorage -b 4096 -E stride=128,stripe-width=512 /dev/md0
Running
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returns:
/dev/md0:
Version : 1.2
Creation Time : Thu Apr 17 01:13:52 2014
Raid Level : raid5
Array Size : 11720536064 (11177.57 GiB 12001.83 GB)
Used Dev Size : 2930134016 (2794.39 GiB 3000.46 GB)
Raid Devices : 5
Total Devices : 5
Persistence : Superblock is persistent
Intent Bitmap : Internal
Update Time : Thu Apr 17 18:55:01 2014
State : active
Active Devices : 5
Working Devices : 5
Failed Devices : 0
Spare Devices : 0
Layout : left-symmetric
Chunk Size : 512K
Name : audioliboffsite:0 (local to host audioliboffsite)
UUID : aba348c6:8dc7b4a7:4e282ab5:40431aff
Events : 11306
Number Major Minor RaidDevice State
0 8 1 0 active sync /dev/sda1
1 8 17 1 active sync /dev/sdb1
2 8 33 2 active sync /dev/sdc1
3 8 49 3 active sync /dev/sdd1
5 8 65 4 active sync /dev/sde1
So, I'm now left wondering why the state of the array isn't "clean"? Is it normal for arrays to show a state of "active" instead of clean under Arch?
Last edited by audiomuze (2014-07-02 20:10:33)

Contrasting two RAID5 arrays - the first created in Arch, the second in Ubuntu Server. Both were created using the same command set (the only differences being number of drives and stride optimised for number of drives). Why the difference in status out of the starting blocks? I've not been able to find anything in the documentation or reading mdadm's manpage to explain this. If there's additional info required in order to assist please let me know and I'll provide same.
Thx in advance for considering and assistance.
/dev/md0:
Version : 1.2
Creation Time : Thu Apr 17 01:13:52 2014
Raid Level : raid5
Array Size : 11720536064 (11177.57 GiB 12001.83 GB)
Used Dev Size : 2930134016 (2794.39 GiB 3000.46 GB)
Raid Devices : 5
Total Devices : 5
Persistence : Superblock is persistent
Intent Bitmap : Internal
Update Time : Mon May 5 05:35:28 2014
State : active
Active Devices : 5
Working Devices : 5
Failed Devices : 0
Spare Devices : 0
Layout : left-symmetric
Chunk Size : 512K
Name : audioliboffsite:0
UUID : aba348c6:8dc7b4a7:4e282ab5:40431aff
Events : 11307
Number Major Minor RaidDevice State
0 8 1 0 active sync /dev/sda1
1 8 17 1 active sync /dev/sdb1
2 8 33 2 active sync /dev/sdc1
3 8 49 3 active sync /dev/sdd1
5 8 65 4 active sync /dev/sde1
/dev/md0:
Version : 1.2
Creation Time : Sun Feb 2 21:40:15 2014
Raid Level : raid5
Array Size : 8790400512 (8383.18 GiB 9001.37 GB)
Used Dev Size : 2930133504 (2794.39 GiB 3000.46 GB)
Raid Devices : 4
Total Devices : 4
Persistence : Superblock is persistent
Update Time : Mon May 5 06:45:45 2014
State : clean
Active Devices : 4
Working Devices : 4
Failed Devices : 0
Spare Devices : 0
Layout : left-symmetric
Chunk Size : 512K
Name : fileserver:0 (local to host fileserver)
UUID : 8389cd99:a86f705a:15c33960:9f1d7cbe
Events : 208
Number Major Minor RaidDevice State
0 8 1 0 active sync /dev/sda1
1 8 17 1 active sync /dev/sdb1
2 8 33 2 active sync /dev/sdc1
4 8 49 3 active sync /dev/sdd1

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I wrote a tiny script to monitor the status of RAID arrays. It is written in awk and is meant to be used with conky. I have this in my conky config file:
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#!/bin/gawk -f
# This script checks the status of RAID arrays from /proc/mdstat
/_/ { state = "Warning!"; exit }
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Maybe someone will find this usefull.

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TS130 - Raid desync and failed

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I got a error yesterday morning. Unable to boot on hdd. i verify the raid controller and i see in status failed. each drive have ' error occured (0) ' . i shutdown, reboot, enter in configuration utility raid. remove hdd , the failed one. reboot the server got windows server back on. i verify data written on them i see that everything written last friday have not been written (database and file and folders). i think for this peticular error friday, one hdd failed and raid havent been able to sync file to another one. but the failed one can be the one who have the most updated file on it ?.

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Ofcourse you should fix these types of problems/failing disks.
Having recent backups is always a good thing. A RAID doesn't save you from human errors but it should prevent "downed" servers.
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I'm trying to determine if the problems that I'm encountering are a software issue or a hardware issue.
I'm setting up a Mac Pro with Leopard and have four Maxtor 6G160E0 160GB hard drives that I'm trying to set up as two Mirrored drive sets. Everything seemed to go fine, created the two mirror sets, installed Leopard, configured and tested two user accounts and Office 2004, then updated everything to the latest version. When done I shut it down planning on moving it to it's final home tonight.
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11/1/07 7:26:12 PM Disk Utility[141] Unmount of “Untitled” succeeded
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11/1/07 7:26:31 PM Disk Utility[141] RAID type: Mirrored RAID Set
11/1/07 7:26:31 PM Disk Utility[141] RAID set name: “Yorktown”
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I'm at a loss at the moment. I am leaning towards bad drives, but FOUR bad drives all at once is suspicious.
I've searched for similar issues and found none so I thought I'd check here and see if anyone had any ideas.

G'day Zeekm,
Thank you for that. I did this and it seems to work. The Disk Utility GUI does not seem to work.
Hope this helps some one,
#Checked the RAID status
root# diskutil checkRAID
RAID SETS
===============================================================================
Name: Server_HD
Unique ID: 7E31E20E-F53D-4D76-AD37-139C4E1440AB
Type: Mirror
Status: Degraded
Size: 1000070610944 B
Device Node: disk2
Apple RAID Version: 2
# Device Node UUID Status
0 disk1s3 BAC72F86-B05F-4B0F-97D3-58A6207E7DFA Failed
1 disk0s3 2BFB55BB-EFF9-438C-A1F9-A8ED7A93D385 Online
===============================================================================
#Told it to resync
root# diskutil repairMirror disk2 disk1s3
Note: Syncing data between mirror partitions can take a very long time.
Note: The mirror should now be repairing itself. You can check its status using 'diskutil listRAID'.
temp:~ root# diskutil listRAID
RAID SETS
===============================================================================
Name: Server_HD
Unique ID: 7E31E20E-F53D-4D76-AD37-139C4E1440AB
Type: Mirror
Status: Degraded
Size: 1000070610944 B
Device Node: disk2
Apple RAID Version: 2
# Device Node UUID Status
0 disk1s3 9D955C85-7EC0-4E92-848A-62D9F7C12EED 0% (Rebuilding)
1 disk0s3 2BFB55BB-EFF9-438C-A1F9-A8ED7A93D385 Online
===============================================================================
Hope this helps,
Cheers,
Arthur

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What i would like to do with C240M3 with 6 local disks: 2 disk raid1 and 4 disk raid0
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