Hi ,

Please let me know how to check the hard disks status (good/bad) and RAID levels used on SUSE. Thank you

Herewith copying the RAID Controller info and fdisk info.


RAID bus controller: Compaq Computer Corporation Smart Array 5300 Controller

Disk /dev/cciss/c0d0: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 35698 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/cciss/c0d0p1 1 35697 286736121 5 Extended
/dev/cciss/c0d0p5 * 1 2 16002 83 Linux
/dev/cciss/c0d0p6 3 133 1052226 82 Linux swap
/dev/cciss/c0d0p7 134 35697 285667798+ 83 Linux


thank you

Not formiluar with open suse, but hp has some software that works with centos. You should check out theyr website.

For software raid, use the mdadm utility. For hardware raid, use the raid card manufacturer's utilities. The distro doesn't really matter for this, it's more or less the same on any of them.