[rhn-users] adaptec SAS RAID hard drive not found

[Steve Finley]

Jason,

Since my original post, I did turn the HW RAID off and attempted to use 
the first
disk as a normal SAS drive.  I got the same result - "No drives 
found..".  I now have
the OS installed on a SATA drive off of the SATA controller that's on 
that mother
board with the HW RAID on.  Here's what /etc/modprobe.conf looks like:

alias eth0 e1000
alias eth1 e1000
alias scsi_hostadapter adp94xx
alias scsi_hostadapter1 ata_piix
alias usb-controller ehci-hcd
alias usb-controller1 uhci-hcd

Here's the output from lsmod:

Module                  Size  Used by
md5                     5696  1
ipv6                  282913  16
parport_pc             29185  0
lp                     15089  0
parport                43981  2 parport_pc,lp
autofs4                24009  0
sunrpc                175545  1
ds                     21449  0
yenta_socket           22977  0
pcmcia_core            69329  2 ds,yenta_socket
ipt_REJECT              8641  1
ipt_state               3265  4
ip_conntrack           53657  1 ipt_state
iptable_filter          4417  1
ip_tables              21569  3 ipt_REJECT,ipt_state,iptable_filter
button                  9057  0
battery                11209  0
ac                      6729  0
uhci_hcd               34665  0
ehci_hcd               33605  0
e1000                 120761  0
floppy                 65809  0
dm_snapshot            19073  0
dm_zero                 3649  0
dm_mirror              32465  0
ext3                  137809  2
jbd                    69105  1 ext3
dm_mod                 68097  8 dm_snapshot,dm_zero,dm_mirror
ata_piix               14405  2
libata                 78473  1 ata_piix
adp94xx               233201  0
sd_mod                 19393  3
scsi_mod              141457  3 libata,adp94xx,sd_mod

So the adp94xx driver is there, but I don't see any sdN devices other 
than /dev/sda,
which is the SATA drive.  Here's /proc/scsi/scsi:

Attached devices:
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
  Vendor: ATA      Model: Maxtor 6V200E0   Rev: VA11
  Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI SCSI revision: 05

Running modprobe aacraid yields (thinking that I may need that driver?):

FATAL: Error inserting aacraid 
(/lib/modules/2.6.9-42.ELsmp/kernel/drivers/scsi/aacraid/aacraid.ko): No 
such device

I'm going to tun the HW RAID off and see what I get.

Thanks

Steve Finley

E Azariah Jason-G20266 wrote:
>  Have you configured Hardware RAID ? . If so .. To ensure that the RHEL
> driver, pls release your RAID config and make it normal SAS drive
> without RAID configured and try starting the installation. If that shows
> the drive  ..then  There may an issue with RAID compatible driver I
> guess.
>
> Meanwhile let me check the drive availability.
>
> -Jason
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com]
> On Behalf Of Steve Finley
> Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2006 4:37 AM
> To: rhn-users at redhat.com
> Subject: [rhn-users] adaptec SAS RAID hard drive not found
>
> I have a Supermicro SuperServer 6025B-3V with their X7DB3 mother board.
> It has an onboard Adaptec SAS RAID controller and has been configured as
> a RAID1 with two Seagate Cheetah 15k.4 disks.  When I attempt to install
> RHEL4  it cannot find the correct driver.  I grabbed the x86_64 aacraid
> driver disk from Adaptec (updated 23 OCT 2006) and tried a "linux dd"
> install.  The driver disk appears to load, but when I to get the
> partition section of the install I get a "No drives found.." message.
>
> Is there an updated RHEL4 driver disk for Adaptec SAS somewhere?
>
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
> Steve Finley
>
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