SiI 3512 raid1 set is not recognized

Istvan Gabor suseuser04 at freemail.hu
Thu Apr 28 19:06:01 UTC 2011


Phillip Susi <psusi at cfl.rr.com> írta:
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On 04/27/2011 04:34 PM, Istvan Gabor wrote:>
> Hello list members:>
> >
> I am new on this list, but I have been using dmraid succesfully with my MB's nvidia nvraid.>
> >
> Very recently I acquired a SiI 3512 PCI SATA raid card.>
> I created a RAID1 array on the card's BIOS using two hard disks of the same type (and size). The RAID array is recognized by the card's BIOS at boot.>
> >
> Unfortunately the raid array is not detected by my openSUSE 11.2 system:>
> >
> linux:~ # dmraid -s>
> no raid disks>
> linux:~ # dmraid -r>
> no raid disks>
>
Try dmraid -s -vvvv -dddd, and check your dmesg for mention of HPA or>
Host Protected Area.>

Thanks.
Here are the outputs:
(not exactly the same system but very similar with the same SiI3512 card)

dmraid version:         1.0.0.rc15 (2008-09-17)
dmraid library version: 1.0.0.rc15 (2008.09.17)
device-mapper version:  4.15.0


~ # dmraid -s -vvvv -dddd
WARN: locking /var/lock/dmraid/.lock
NOTICE: /dev/sde: asr     discovering
NOTICE: /dev/sde: ddf1    discovering
NOTICE: /dev/sde: hpt37x  discovering
NOTICE: /dev/sde: hpt45x  discovering
NOTICE: /dev/sde: isw     discovering
NOTICE: /dev/sde: jmicron discovering
NOTICE: /dev/sde: lsi     discovering
NOTICE: /dev/sde: nvidia  discovering
NOTICE: /dev/sde: pdc     discovering
NOTICE: /dev/sde: sil     discovering
NOTICE: /dev/sde: via     discovering
NOTICE: /dev/sdd: asr     discovering
NOTICE: /dev/sdd: ddf1    discovering
NOTICE: /dev/sdd: hpt37x  discovering
NOTICE: /dev/sdd: hpt45x  discovering
NOTICE: /dev/sdd: isw     discovering
NOTICE: /dev/sdd: jmicron discovering
NOTICE: /dev/sdd: lsi     discovering
NOTICE: /dev/sdd: nvidia  discovering
NOTICE: /dev/sdd: pdc     discovering
NOTICE: /dev/sdd: sil     discovering
NOTICE: /dev/sdd: via     discovering
NOTICE: /dev/sdc: asr     discovering
NOTICE: /dev/sdc: ddf1    discovering
NOTICE: /dev/sdc: hpt37x  discovering
NOTICE: /dev/sdc: hpt45x  discovering
NOTICE: /dev/sdc: isw     discovering
NOTICE: /dev/sdc: jmicron discovering
NOTICE: /dev/sdc: lsi     discovering
NOTICE: /dev/sdc: nvidia  discovering
NOTICE: /dev/sdc: pdc     discovering
NOTICE: /dev/sdc: sil     discovering
NOTICE: /dev/sdc: via     discovering
NOTICE: /dev/sdb: asr     discovering
NOTICE: /dev/sdb: ddf1    discovering
NOTICE: /dev/sdb: hpt37x  discovering
NOTICE: /dev/sdb: hpt45x  discovering
NOTICE: /dev/sdb: isw     discovering
NOTICE: /dev/sdb: jmicron discovering
NOTICE: /dev/sdb: lsi     discovering
NOTICE: /dev/sdb: nvidia  discovering
NOTICE: /dev/sdb: nvidia metadata discovered
NOTICE: /dev/sdb: pdc     discovering
NOTICE: /dev/sdb: sil     discovering
NOTICE: /dev/sdb: via     discovering
NOTICE: /dev/sda: asr     discovering
NOTICE: /dev/sda: ddf1    discovering
NOTICE: /dev/sda: hpt37x  discovering
NOTICE: /dev/sda: hpt45x  discovering
NOTICE: /dev/sda: isw     discovering
NOTICE: /dev/sda: jmicron discovering
NOTICE: /dev/sda: lsi     discovering
NOTICE: /dev/sda: nvidia  discovering
NOTICE: /dev/sda: nvidia metadata discovered
NOTICE: /dev/sda: pdc     discovering
NOTICE: /dev/sda: sil     discovering
NOTICE: /dev/sda: via     discovering
DEBUG: _find_set: searching nvidia_eegacfaf
DEBUG: _find_set: not found nvidia_eegacfaf
DEBUG: _find_set: searching nvidia_eegacfaf
DEBUG: _find_set: not found nvidia_eegacfaf
NOTICE: added /dev/sdb to RAID set "nvidia_eegacfaf"
DEBUG: _find_set: searching nvidia_eegacfaf
DEBUG: _find_set: found nvidia_eegacfaf
DEBUG: _find_set: searching nvidia_eegacfaf
DEBUG: _find_set: found nvidia_eegacfaf
NOTICE: added /dev/sda to RAID set "nvidia_eegacfaf"
DEBUG: checking nvidia device "/dev/sda"
DEBUG: checking nvidia device "/dev/sdb"
DEBUG: set status of set "nvidia_eegacfaf" to 16
*** Active Set
name   : nvidia_eegacfaf
size   : 1953525120
stride : 128
type   : mirror
status : ok
subsets: 0
devs   : 2
spares : 0
WARN: unlocking /var/lock/dmraid/.lock
DEBUG: freeing devices of RAID set "nvidia_eegacfaf"
DEBUG: freeing device "nvidia_eegacfaf", path "/dev/sda"
DEBUG: freeing device "nvidia_eegacfaf", path "/dev/sdb"



~ # dmesg|grep -i hpa
[    3.031238] ata3.00: HPA unlocked: 80416127 -> 80418240, native 80418240


sda and sdb has a nvidia nvraid mirror which works well.
sdc is my IDE hard disk (ata3.00)
sdd and sde have the sil raid mirror which is not detected by OS.

Thanks,

Istvan





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