D20 raid

hello all and happy holidays,
a few questions - perhaps someone can help me
I have a D20 w/ three segate 15k 300 gig drives in raid 0 on the marvell sas controller, i just bought 2 new samsung 850 pro's that I want to use as the boot drives- I just found out that the intel chipest I have does not support raid, there fore I must use the marvell controller.
however, I want to use the three 15k drives in raid 0 for back up to my new SSD drives.
Short of buying a controller, can this be done?
Yes the 850's support trim and nearly every other function I can think of.
I really do not want to start my os all over- even if I could figure out a way to migrate the data to a SAMASUNG raid array via my present set up I would be happy, as I would just buy a 1tb wd black and place it on the intel controller.
I did connect to 850 pros to the other two ports on the marvell controller and created a raid 0 array, along w/ the seagate array I already have- and this did work, however, the samsung software does not see the 850 pros (shows up as a second marvell raid array) so I cant use the samsung software as it must see the samsung drive to enable their software- any ideas what to do?
I have a funny felling I am going to have to buy a hardware raid controller. in this case can anyone recomend a good unit for a reasonable price?
thank you

well at the moment I have three 300 gb sas (900gb) 15.7k seagate drives in raid 0- via the marvell controller, and the samsung drives are 256gb each- for 512 gb raid 0, so i am well under the 2.2 tb maxium.
oddly I can create the array in the mavell raid set up, but I can not low level format them, and my computer's bios see's the drives. however, the samsung software see's the samsung raid array as marvell raid array xxx, this is why the samsung software wont work. it seems the samsung software requires the unique id information from each drive which when the raid array for the samsungs are created is not available due to some weird naming policy- it would seem.
I have this same issue with the seagate drives- they appear as marvell raid array xxx- not as seagate drives.
as well, I cant seem to format the samsung drives (when in raid) from the marvel raid utillity, nor from the windows enviroment. as single drive they function as expected. the samsung ssd drives I am using are the new 256gb 850 pro drives.
any additional information you need i will glady make available.
thank you for your assitance, I hope we can figure this one out, as I have never ran into this sort of issue before. most mobo I have set up in the past with multiple chip sets allow for two raid set ups via each controller.

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Conversion of ad20 non raid to a D20 raid 1 and keeping existing OS/data

I have a new D20 with windows 7-x64 pre installed on it. I purchased a second Lenovo supplied sata add in drive to convert the system to raid 1.
When I add the “raid 1” in support in the bios, the system when it reboots does not recognize the existing windows 7 partition.
When I used “other mfg” on board raid configuration, the working partition was considered the master partition and was automatically mirrored to the new added drive (making it raid1)
My expectation was that there would be either a “thinkvantage” tool that allowed you to do this from the OS, or there would be a some OS add on tool that performs this function
So my question.. Can you convert a d20 non raid to a D20 raid 1 (given drives are the same etc), and if so (I am a glass half full person), what is the process required to do so.
thanks
matt k.

if the marvell RAID controller hasn't been enabled, you'll need to install the driver. it can be found here: http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-73697
after this is installed, boot into the D20 BIOS and enable RAID. reboot again into the unconfigured drive and see if you can get into windows. if so, you can set up your RAID 1 array.
if you want to control RAID configuration from within windows, you'll need to install the marvell RAID utility found here: http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-73073
(edit: typo)
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Simple D20 RAID questoin -- needs to be preconfigured?

Does the Thinkstation D20 need to have its RAID "configured by Lenovo", i.e. when originally purchased?
On the Thinkpad W520, I believe you have to select that you want RAID, or else you won't have the right hardware installed, and I wonder if the D20 is the same way.
I am wondering if I'll have to buy all five drives, in the arrays I want, if I want to have RAID in my future Thinkstation. I'm pretty sure I've seen this addressed somewhere but haven't been able to track a definitive answer back down.
Thanks for the help,
JohnV474
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Wow, thanks for the quick reply. I marked it as the solution.
Cheers,
JohnV474

D20 Raid 1 setup

Hi,
I am able to install and boot into windows when plugged into the raid ports, but when the raid is created the drive does not boot and display no operating disc found. Seems as though the raid wipes the drive. I select the primary drive 1st in the Raid creation process.
Any help greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Justin

We need more information to understand what exactly your issue is.
What are "raid ports"? D20 consists of blue ports (routed to the onboard Marvell controller) and black ports (routed to the Intel ICH legacy AHCI controller).
I think you're saying you can boot a single non-RAIDed drive plugged into the blue ports, but when you try to RAID two drives on that controller, you're not able to boot the RAID array.
-How are you creating the RAID array? Are you using the Marvell OPROM (ctrl+m) during POST?
-Assuming you've created the RAID array correctly using the Marvell OPROM, are you then ensuring the RAID array is listed in the boot sequence?
Once the RAID array is created successfully and showing in the boot sequence, you'll still have to get an OS put on the RAID array (assuming you want the array to be the bootable partition). Boot to your installation CD, and then provide the Marvell controller driver when prompted in order to see the array in the list of available drives. I don't believe the Marvell drivers are native to any of the win7 installations (including the service packs) and they must be supplied manually.

D20 Raid rebuild option

Hi friends
At one of our customer's site we had replaced a hdd in the D20 workstation, the hdd was part of a Raid 5 array. what i want to know is how do we rebuild the replaced the drive. Are there any raid management software. The raid controller is an onboard Marvell 88se63xx controller. Didnt find any option in the raid utility.
Any suggestions will be very helpful.
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welcome to the forum!
you can download the marvell RAID utility here: http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-73073
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D20 RAID removing

The D20 came with the two drives in a RAID setup and I’m trying to get the machine to a non-raid setup where the disks do not appear as virtual volumes in Microsoft "DiskPart". There are two physical hard disks but diskpart is seeing 4 disks with zero capacity on them.
I’ve broken the RAID grouping with the Marvel BIOS setup, but I think I’m missing a bet somewhere, so any assistance you can give me in how to configure the bios so that the two hard disks look like two "normal" SATA devices, would be most welcome.

go into the standard BIOS and see if you can set the ATA mode from "RAID" to "AHCI". unfortunately i don't have a D20 in front of me right now to confirm this option exists.
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D20 RAID problem

Hello,
I've a problem with my new D20 ( 4155-21g ). I could not see the cofigured RAID 10
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1. Shutdown the D20 ( Win XP 32bit preinstalled, 250 GB SATA drive ), no changes overall.
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5. Starting Win XP and....only can see and access the system drive ( C:\ ).
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Any ideas how to solve it ?
Many thanks in advance!

welcome to the forum!
Gorman wrote:
11. The german hotline told me to google and install the following : MIGR-72045, imo complete nonsens,
       because there is a Marvell RAID Controller on board and not an INTEL Controller.
for SATA drives, i do believe you need to install the intel RAID driver because of how the marvell controller is integrated in the system.   if you look at MIGR-72045, the D20 is indeed listed under this driver package even though it's an ICH10 and not ICH10R chipset.
try installing it and see what happens.
if you need a copy of the marvell RAID utility manual, it can be downloaded here from intel.
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RAID error

HI I have SunFire V880 and it has 12 HDD. This morning I saw this message in /var/adm/messages
Jan 4 07:35:42 etpdb1 md_raid: [ID 371651 kern.warning] WARNING: md d0: write error on /dev/dsk/c1t5d0s2 Jan 4 07:35:42 etpdb1 last message repeated 1 time Jan 4 07:35:43 etpdb1 md_raid: [ID 104909 kern.warning] WARNING: md: d0: /dev/dsk/c1t5d0s2 needs maintenance
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MD_IOCPROBE_DEV: Invalid argument
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c1t3d0s2 3219 Yes Okay
c1t2d0s2 3219 Yes Okay
d20: RAID
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Size: 716685504 blocks
Original device:
Size: 716694800 blocks
Device Start Block Dbase State Hot Spare
c1t8d0s2 10346 No Okay
c1t9d0s2 10346 No Okay
c1t10d0s2 10346 No Okay
c1t11d0s2 10346 No Okay
c1t12d0s2 10346 No Okay
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Replace the failed disk. After the disk replacement slice up the new disk and then run a metareplace to enable the new device and return the hot spare.

Lenovo D20, Type 4155-21G With 5x1.5tb Raid 5, Windows 7 64bit install problem.

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Id like to just document a current machine and works and see if any thing is glaringly wrong..
Above spec machine has an onboard marrvel 66xx raid card, a raid 5 volume has been created, total useable space is around 5.5TB.
The software in play here is the following..
Orignal Lenovo recovery disk set, this is Rescue and recovery boot disk 1, then the OS which is Vista 32 Business, the disk label is actual 64bit but its not 64bit its 32bit.
The machine finally has to leave with Windows 7 64bit ultimate.
I have looked into the upgrade paths and so on and basicly you need vista 64bit ultimate in theory, certain hacks are possible such as renaming the os level or name via the registery, but this is dirverting from my post.
Here is what has been done and what has happend.
20th Jan.
Start of day.
Raid 5 volume created.
Factory recovery completed windows vista business 32bit.
Attempt to upgrade Windows vista business to Windows 7 ultimate from with in windows, windows 7 alerts this is not a compatable system etc.
At this stage since the 64bit upgrade is not possible from the known good lenovo state (lenovo vista business factory desktop etc) the second disks in the "Windows 7 32bit + 64bit any time upgrade package was ran.
The 32bit version of the Windows 7 ultimate was ran, this did complete sucessfully.
The 64bit version of the windows 7 was attempted once more from with in the newly installed Windows 7 32 bit but again this upgrade route is not supported.
At this stage a custom install was completed (which means a fresh install which wipes the drive) / fresh install, of the windows 7 64bit any time upgrade disk.
For some reason the Windows 7 64bit any time upgrade key failed to be accepted.
At this stage a second engineer repeated all steps completed to verify and on the second go around the FRESH install of Windows 64bit any time upgrade (stand alone install / custom etc) the key worked!..
This is were it gets interesting.
Lets recap, we have a D20 with 5x1.5tb sata hard drives in raid 5, all on the onboard marvel raid card.
Windows 7 64bit has been sucessfully installed, and of course the next step is to install the lenovo system update tool. (version for windows 7, I understand this is fully 64bit compatable..)
This was completed and pc doctor and one other misc application install, the system requested to restart and then ....
The raid BIOS of the marvel card reported that the raid had become degraded..!!
An inspection of the onboard raid information results that the disk 0 of the 5 disks, was no longer assigned to the RAID 5, with teh remaining several disks still "assigned".
At this stage the only option is to delete the raid five array and recreate it.
This has been done and the factory recovery process has once again been restarted and an attempt will be made to perform the custom install with hopefully the windows 7 64bit any time upgrade install detecting the previous version although I would say that it would not need to detect anything since this is now longer an upgrade but a custom fresh install.
Further information.
There is a System bios update from the 5th of Jan 2010, this has been burnt to cd and will be applyed against the machine shortly.
We have had some conversation about just how it is that a disk can fatally pop out from the raid five volume like this, was it a coincidence that it coninsided with the power cycle process dirrectly after the system update installation?
Tommorow a Windows 64bit OEM package will be applied against this machine and since we have the relivant driver file for the onboard raid card (sourced from the drivers and applications lenovo recovery disk set), there should be less of a problem in key acceptance.
Kind of a werid situation, what looks like a possible hardware problem and a stupid microsoft upgrade qulification problem.
Is there any thing stupid I have over looked?
Thanks, sorry for the long post but this is the story in full.
Note from Moderator: Fixed formatting issue.

21st Jan..
The D20 has sucessfully had vista business factory reinstalled and then Windows 7 64bit installed.
Dirrectly after the Windows 7 installation and power cycle, one of the five 1.5tb hard drives have dropped out of the raid, visable as "DEGRADED", uppon further inspection via control m, the middle drive (not drive 0 as before) drive 2 (0,1,2,3,4,5) has dropped out and is not marked as assigned, it is marked with no label or free.
This is high strangeness, it is my understanding that the RAID technologies are transparent to the OS so it should not be in any way the Windows 7 install triggering this, the last occurance was also during a Windows 7 power cycle but dirrectly after the system update tool being installed.
At this stage it would appear that Windows 7 64-bit used in conjunction with the supplment driver disk marked as (drivers and apps, windows xp vista, windows 7) is not able to complete and remain stable.
I suspect a possible driver issue but if this was the case surely the windows 7 install would not progress past the first installation point where the driver disks is required to actually use and see the array via the controler.
I will update this thread with more information as it becomes available.
Machine delivery eta to customer is tommorow so this is not good.

D20 Marvell raid bios update.

Ok i have a pair of Lenovo D20's here one is a 4158-W5K & the other is a 4158-B6U I just noticed that one unit has a different Marvell bios than the other one. Is there any way to update them to the newest raid bios? Any help would be appriciated.
Mike

Can you confirm the FW level for each individual system?
I don't think we normally push FW updates for the Marvell controllers in 20 series out to the field as there is some risk in customers messing things up and rendering their systems unusable. It's a small risk, but it still exists.
Do you have a reason to have the systems on the same FW levels (i.e. are you encountering a problem on one that you're not seeing on the other)? Most of the FW updates for the Marvell controllers were pretty benign in nature as I recall. Small bug fixes here and there really.

D20 - 4284A13 Marvell RAID, Linux OS

I am trying to get RHEL5.4 to install and recogize my drives on a D20 (4284A13) ThinkStation. It seems that the RAID on the Marvell is causing an issue. I have 3 disk drives, 1 SATA and 2 SAS. I DO NOT have a RAID configured. I just want to install the OS on the SATA drive and mount the two SAS drives in the fstab file. When all of the drives are plugged into the "blue" SATA ports, the BIOS reports them with the Marvel controller but the OS only sees the SATA drive. I have tried moving the SAS drives over to the black SATA ports. Whne booting, it seems that the Marvell controller no longer sees them for it's "RAID" but the OS doesn't see them either. How do I "turn on" the black SATA ports in the BIOS so that it lets the OS see the drives?
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welcome to the forum!
to confirm that the marvell controller is enabled, you'll find it in the BIOS under the 'Devices' tab > Marvell SATA/SAS controller.   this should be set to [Enabled] along with the option ROM scan directly below it.
you won't see any SAS drives in your OS without the marvell drivers installed.   for this i would recommend installing your SATA drive on a black socket and the SAS drives on the blue sockets.   once your OS is installed then you should be able to install the array.
at any time you should be able to configure the array using the ROM controller option at POST.   the key combination to access it if ctrl+M if memory serves.   full instructions can be found in the D20 HMM: http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/detail.page?&LegacyDocID=MIGR-72117
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D20 - 4158 with Marvel Raid + windows 7 failed to restart (Blue screen) after installation

I installed Windows 7 64 bit by providing the Marvell RAID driver downloaded from http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?&LegacyDocID=MIGR-73716. The installation goes fine, when the computer restarts, the windows 7 logo flashes and then immediately the blue screen comes and then the computer restarts. This continues repeatedly.
I checked the Raid, we have one array with Raid 0 configuration. I could not find out why the OS installation goes fine but it fails to restart
Kindly provide some technical input.
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After double checking the link you provided....I'm confused on your setup. Can you reiterate which drives you have in the system and which ports they are connected to?
For a D20, you should have all HDDs attached to the blue ports. These ports route directly back to the Marvell controller. Then during the OS install, you need to supply the Marvell driver (not the Intel RAID driver that you specified in your link).
The only reason you would supply the drive you listed in your link is if you're attempting to run HDDs off the black ports on the system. This will work (but is not supported) for regualar HDDs in a non-RAID config. The D20 utilizes the ICH10, not the ICH10R, so there is no way to utilize RAID off these ports. The black ports are intended for ODD use only.
So I'm guessing you either have drives connected incorrectly, or you were attempting to provide the incorrect driver during the OS installation.

Intel raid RS2P1008 will not function on D20

HELP!
Well I bought a new Intel Raid card- RS2P1008, installed it, and, well.....nothing. Wont show up in the BIOS, I see it in windows 7 ultimate 64bit device manager, but gives error code 10, when I attempt to install the intel drivers it cimply locks up tha machine.I Cant find a way to get this card working. can any one help me?
I am stuck and have run out of ideas. Is this card incompatable with the D20? Intel states it works with all tested 5520 series boards.
Thank you in advance.
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The first test is three 300 gb Segate Cheata 15.7k drives in raid 0, 64bit c drive only
CrystalDiskMark 3.0.3 x64 (C) 2007-2013 hiyohiyo
                           Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/
* MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [SATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s]
           Sequential Read :   315.741 MB/s
          Sequential Write :   240.141 MB/s
         Random Read 512KB :    78.200 MB/s
        Random Write 512KB :    51.987 MB/s
    Random Read 4KB (QD=1) :     1.043 MB/s [   254.6 IOPS]
   Random Write 4KB (QD=1) :     5.451 MB/s [ 1330.8 IOPS]
   Random Read 4KB (QD=32) :     5.431 MB/s [ 1325.9 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=32) :     5.645 MB/s [ 1378.3 IOPS]
Test : 1000 MB [C: 27.3% (229.0/837.9 GB)] (x5)
Date : 2015/01/05 18:54:35
    OS : Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 [6.1 Build 7601] (x64)
this is the second test on e drive, twin Samsung 850 Pro in raid 0, 64 bit as well
CrystalDiskMark 3.0.3 x64 (C) 2007-2013 hiyohiyo
                           Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/
* MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [SATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s]
           Sequential Read :   495.546 MB/s
          Sequential Write :   493.757 MB/s
         Random Read 512KB :   470.604 MB/s
        Random Write 512KB :   473.854 MB/s
    Random Read 4KB (QD=1) :    32.388 MB/s [ 7907.1 IOPS]
   Random Write 4KB (QD=1) :    68.498 MB/s [ 16723.2 IOPS]
   Random Read 4KB (QD=32) :   286.935 MB/s [ 70052.6 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=32) :   288.907 MB/s [ 70534.1 IOPS]
Test : 1000 MB [E: 22.3% (106.2/476.8 GB)] (x5)
Date : 2015/01/05 19:04:54
    OS : Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 [6.1 Build 7601] (x64)
Both sets of raid arrays are on the MRC @3g/b speed in a windows oddball installation (as we previoulsy discused). I will Post performance test results in a few mins.

D20 (4158-48G) RAID driver -problem / Win 7

Hello,
I've created an array (RAID1) using two identical 500GB hd's. Marvell's raid bios (?) gives me the long awaited info that the RAID1 is online and ready to be used. The problem is with Win 7.
I've downloaded "drivers" that I need from here: http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?sitestyle=lenovo&lndocid=MIGR-73716
When I boot my system, Win 7 tells me that RAID driver is not installed correctly. When I go to the device manager and try to update the driver from specific location W7 doesn't find the drivers at all.
No luck.
Getting pissed off
And as much as I have tried to use google and this forum to solve my problem - i'm starting to feel I'm all alone with this problem (
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Thanks!
the problem was that I followed too blindly Lenovos homepage and assumed that the right driver was located where I thought It should be.
I went to Support -> ThinkBrand -> Quick Path
Typed my model D20's model number (4158-48G)
Chose a link "Downloads & drivers"
From "Refine results" -box I chose "RAID" - and it only gave intel Matrix driver support..
The correct one was found from here:
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=TSTN-MATRIX
->
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-72280

Moving Raid Array on to another D20

Ok I currenty have a few D20 systems and one unit that I had for a spare as a backup is going to be used. I wanted to migrate a set of 4 x 15K 300G drives in a raid 5 array to the system. How would I do that on the system without having to reinstall the OS. Do I just go to the Raid setup and do that or is there a special procedure to do it. Any info would be appriciated
Mike

D20 is going back a while, but I "think" you should be able to simply move the drives over to the new system and be good to go. You might want to spot check the BIOS settings on each system to make sure anything specific to the onboard Marvell controller is set up the same on both the original and new system, but nothing jumps out at me as being tricky here. I believe the metadata on the drives will ensure everything works correctly.
The only recommendation I might make would be to ensure each drive from the original system gets plugged into the same respective port on the new system. I really don't think this will make any difference since all the array info should be in the metadata....just a safety precaution.

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