[ILUG] Monitoring of LSI Logic Megaraid controller

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Niall O Broin (niall at linux.ie):

> I installed dmraid anyway (on an Ubuntu breezy box) and its  
> documentation indicates that it does indeed support LSI Logic MegaRAID  

Man, how the mighty are fallen.  Back when it was AMI-produced, MegaRAID 
referred solely to genuine hardware RAID.  I see they've cheapened it:
http://news.taborcommunications.com/msgget.jsp?mid=357856&xsl=story.xsl
So, apparently now the term also refers to some fakeraid flavour (that
is, manufacturer-specific software RAID) built into certain Intel ICH6R
block-device chipsets and others.

Suggestion:  How about disabling software RAID in the option BIOS (or
motherboard BIOS, and using Linux's "md" software RAID, instead?  It's 
pretty much guaranteed to be faster and more reliable.