Xserve LSI Raid Card

Anyone have a Xserve with a LSI Raid Card. I bought a used card and having issues with installing it. Wanted to know if your raid card had any of the J(n) ports jumpered.
Thanks

that seems to be the next step here: find or purchase a new card to test the existing drives.
i had wondered if these cards aren't compatible with the 750 gb drives. does anyone know?
also, would a bad battery cause such craziness? does the battery keep read/write cache data on the 64mb on-card memory for just this purpose? i haven't found much documentation on the apple branded cards.
thanks for your help.

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Changing the battery is quite a big effort, so I really would like to avoid this. Any ideas, what the problem might be and how to solve it?

Hi Lordlobby,
I've had this on 2, 2008 xserves. Started off randomly happening that the RAID card would report the same error code which wasn't down to the discharge cycle. It became worse so the battery was replaced and it's been fine since... It's about 15mins work to replace the battery..
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So heres what I have found so far..
It has an Apple Raid Card (don't ask me much more than that, or ill have to tear it apart again). But the 10.4.10 Install disk doesnt show the Raid card or drives (SATA Apple Drive Module 80.0). So is my card toast? Not supported by 10.4? Need a direction to run at because this thing is starting really get under my skin.
If I use a SATA Drive bay via USB (WD 80GB Drive), the disk appears, but the Server won't last long before it Kernel Panics, but it works during Installation Media Verification..
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An easy way to see if it's a raid card is on the part of the RAID/Backplane you can see when you slide the top cover off, if it has 2 chips with silver heatsinks on it's a RAID card if it's 1 chip it's a backplane. The RAID Card also has a small connection for a RAID battery..
as for why it doesn't work.. Have a look at the following
1) Do the drives light up when you start the machine.. You should see a green light (always on) and a blue activity light which should flash.
2) If it doesn't then there is an orange ribbon cable that goes from the RAID/Backplane to the logic board. Make sure this is properly connected and doesn't have any breaks in it.
The RAID card will work in a non raid configuration so you don't need to get rid of it if you don't want to. An easy option to check the server would be to install 10.6 or Lion on a USB stick and start the server up for it by plugging it in and holding down the ALT key when you power on the server. From the system profiler you should be able to see if it recognises the RAID card (Hardware RAID) and also if it passes it's diagnostics test.
There are of course a lot of things that could be wrong with it.. You can remove the RAID/Backplane board and start the server up from USB/Firewire to narrow down your testing.. One thing the 2006/2008 servers are pretty cheap on eBay in working form so you might find it better to get one from there. The 2009's hold their value a lot more as you can still install the current OS on them..
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Can I only install it locally on the machine if a Raid card/SAS drives are in there??
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Hello,
I had this issue and the workaround fixed the issue temporary.
But i've missed the information, where i may find the Megacli tool for VMware:
Here is the path to the iso file, which includes the vib files.
Downloads Home
Products
Servers - Unified Computing
Cisco UCS C-Series Rack-Mount Standalone Server Software
Cisco UCS C220 M3 Rack Server Software
Unified Computing System (UCS) Utilities
VMWare-1.5(4)
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You need to download this tool from LSI's website. LSI is the RAID controller's manufacturers. Look in google for "MegaRAID SAS XXXX" where XXXX is the RAID controllers model.
For example, here is this one for the 9260-8i: http://www.lsi.com/products/raid-controllers/pages/megaraid-sas-9260-8i.aspx <<< Go to "Software Downloads"> "Management Software and Tools" > download "MegaCLI 5.5 P2"which is for "DOS FreeBSD Linux Solaris VMware VMwareMN Windows EFI"
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If i have 2 drives configured as a mirrored RAID 1 disk can I put in a third drive
and use that as a JBOD drive?
Sorry if this has already been discussed (long ago)...

Sure. JBOD is the default. You have to go out of your way to make the mirror.
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Alberto
This is the wrong place to ask.
Try here:
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=832&start=0
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Does anyone know if there are any problems using the Hardware RAID card, 661-3174 : M9699G/A, in a regular G5 tower instead of a xserve?
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The G5 tower has two designated 3.5 inch drive bays although you may be able to stuff a couple of more drives in out of the way places.
You will need to run cables from wherever the drives are installed to the connectors on the RAID card. Keeping them out of the way may be a challenge.
The Apple card requires Mac OS X server 10.3.4 or higher. No mention was made if there were any problems with Tiger (10.4) or Leopard (10.5) server.
You will need to backup or image the existing drives prior to creating the RAID.
You may want to take a look at the LSI MegRAID controllers. Word on the street is that the Apple Xserve G5 RAID card was just a rebranded LSI with Apple firmware and drivers. But the product documentation may give you some ideas on the path ahead.
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Wanted: Apple Hardware RAID Card for Xserve G5

I have some questions regarding the original internal Apple Hardware RAID Card for an Xserve G5.
1) Does it support native hardware RAID level 5?
2) Does anyone know where I can find one of these cards? I can't even find them on eBay.
3) I heard this card is based on an LSI board. Which model? Has anyone had success using the non-Apple version of the same model board in an Xserve G5 with internal Apple Drive Modules?
4) How do you hook up this card? Do I put it in the PCI slot and move the SATA cables to it or does the presence of the card just automagically take over the drives?
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I heard this card is based on an LSI board. Which model?
Camelot is correct that this card is based on (is) the LSI Logic MegaRAID SATA 150-4 card:
http://www.lsi.com/storagehome/products_home/internal_raid/megaraid_sata/megaraid_sata1504/index.html
However, it has custom Apple Firmware to support booting by a PPC Xserve G5 rather than a PC. Apple also provides a ported version of the LSI Logic "megaraid" program to manage the card.
There is a bug (well, at least one) in the Apple Firmware version that was fixed by LSI Logic in its PC version subsequent to Apple's branch off of the LSI Logic code tree for the firmware. Specifically, the card sometimes doesn't fully flush its write caches before it disconnects from the drive buses on graceful power down (doesn't happen on restart). Only known workaround is to turn off the write caches for all LUNs. I turned in a RADAR report (RADAR ID 4350243) under our support agreement back in November 2005, but no action since. I follow up every so often, but clearly this EOL product is not a priority.
Has anyone had success using the non-Apple version of the same model board in an Xserve G5 with internal Apple Drive Modules?
Won't work without the Apple firmware. Apple doesn't distribute the firmware. Been there, done that. Our Apple Hardware RAID card failed in an odd way shortly after installation - it still functioned as a RAID controller once booted from another drive, but you couldn't boot from it. believe that the firmware became corrupted, and that it could have been fixed by flashing the firmware using the "megaraid" program, but Apple Support didn't have a file to flash it with, so it was handled by an RMA exchange.
RAID 5 performance is degraded with the write caches off, but our load is not heavy. I guess you could script the turning off and flushing of the write caches prior to shutdown, and turn them back on again during the boot sequence, but you'd really have to be careful to handle things like restart to CD boot, etc. We value our data more than speed.
This was a very difficult bug to troubleshoot, because the RAID 5 made the mystery garbage blocks from space very hard to find repeatably. Finally came up with a repeatable test case. Fortunately, discovered while testing the Xserve prior to deployment, so no valuable data was lost.
Russ

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The earlier servers are running non-apple 1.5 TB drives. It will be interesting to learn if this firmware update will indeed allow me to boost the capacity by installing non-apple drives, as the firmware previously has not.
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I've had an xserve running for the last month or two now, it has been subject to frequent crashes...
I have applied the latest 10.5.5 update and haven't had a crash for some time now.
This morning I happened to have a look at the server monitor, and there was an error...
I'm a little confused... especially when the xserve is also connected to an APC UPS unit.
Should I be worried about this... is something lurking around the corner?
*Any help/suggestions appreciated.*
http://smam.net/xserve/raid-card.jpg
Az

This is covered in the RAID Utility User's Guide on page 12.
Every 3 months the RAID card will discharge and recharge the battery. During this process, you will see the message.
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Eric Miller

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that seems to be the next step here: find or purchase a new card to test the existing drives.
i had wondered if these cards aren't compatible with the 750 gb drives. does anyone know?
also, would a bad battery cause such craziness? does the battery keep read/write cache data on the 64mb on-card memory for just this purpose? i haven't found much documentation on the apple branded cards.
thanks for your help.

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When ours failed (became intermittent when disturbed), it was replaced by Apple Support under our Xserve AppleCare Maintenance Agreement - they overnighted one to me.
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