RAID administration in Debian Lenny

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Published on 2010-11-08T16:23:12Z Indexed on 2012/04/11 23:32 UTC
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I've got an old box that I don't want to scrap yet because it's got a nice working 5-disk RAID assembly. I want to create 2 arrays: RAID 1 with 2 disks and RAID 5 with the other 3 disks.

The RAID card is Intel SRCU31L. I can create the RAID 1 volume in the console that you access with Ctrl+C at startup. But it only allows for creation of one volume so I can't do anything with the 3 remaining disks.

I installed Debian Lenny on the RAID 1 volume and it worked out nicely. What utilites could I now use to create/manage the RAID volumes in Debian Linux? I installed the raidutils package but get an error when trying to fetch a list: #raidutil -L controller or #raidutil -L physical

# raidutil -L controller
osdOpenEngine  : 11/08/110-18:16:08  Fatal error, no active controller device files found.
Engine connect failed: Open

What could I try to get this thing working? Can you suggest any other tools?

Command #lspci -vv gives me this about the controller:

00:06.1 I2O: Intel Corporation Integrated RAID (rev 02) (prog-if 01)
    Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device 0001
    Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Step                                                                                                 ping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
    Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort                                                                                                 - <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
    Latency: 64, Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
    Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 26
    Region 0: Memory at f9800000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=8M]
    [virtual] Expansion ROM at 30020000 [disabled] [size=64K]
    Capabilities: <access denied>
    Kernel driver in use: PCI_I2O
    Kernel modules: i2o_core

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