Mangling Drives on Adaptec RAID

Hardware specs on Hetzner server were:

Disks are ST3300657SS (Seagate Cheetah 15K.7 300GB 15000RPM, 16MB Cache, SAS 6Gb)
RAID controller: Adaptec 5405

Adaptec RAID

Download drivers from Thomas-Krenn repository. but there is also this HWraid or this monitoring Adaptec RAID controllers

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wget -O - http://archive.thomas-krenn.com/tk-archive.gpg.pub | sudo apt-key add -

cd /etc/apt/sources.list.d
wget http://archive.thomas-krenn.com/tk-main-xenial.list
wget http://archive.thomas-krenn.com/tk-optional-xenial.list

cd
apt-get update
apt-get install arcconf

Now, do as explained here: Adaptec RAID Controller/en – Hetzner DokuWiki

arcconf getconfig 1 ld

Complete RAID status should be “Optimal”:

arcconf getconfig 1 ld | grep Status

Obtain separate drive status:

arcconf getconfig 1 pd|egrep "Device #|State\>|Reported Location|Reported Channel|S.M.A.R.T. warnings"

Read SMART values for each disk:

smartctl -d scsi --all /dev/sg[1-4]