Re: aic94xx and the adaptec sata raid controller (aic-9410)

[Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@gmail.com>]

On 08/26/2009 11:09 AM, Kurt Newman wrote:
> Since the e-mail for Luben Tuikov, the original writer of the aic94xx
> driver, no longer works, I was hoping to ask someone a couple simple
> questions since it relates to the SATA subsystem.
>
> If this is the incorrect mailing list, I'm very sorry.  Could you refer
> me to the proper one?  I'm at a dead end and hoping someone can point me
> in a better direction.
>
> My question is:
> Does the aic94xx driver enable the use of the Adaptec SATA Raid
> functionality, such that, I'm able to see a single "raided" drive,
> instead of multiple, individual ones.
>
> Background information:
> Thus far, loading the aic94xx module simply says:
> "aic94xx: Adaptec aic94xx SAS/SATA driver version 1.0.2-2 loaded".
>
> However, beyond that message and several /sys entries added, I'm unable
> to access the raid-1 "drive" created by the adaptec utility.  With or
> without that driver loaded, I still only have access to each individual
> drive (/dev/sda and /dev/sdb) using ata_piix.

ata_piix will be for an Intel integrated chipset SATA controller, not an 
aic94xx. Are you sure the drives are actually hooked up through the 
Adaptec controller?

>
> I'm currently attempting to use kernel 2.6.18 (which is patched by
> RedHat to create kernel-2.6.18-128.7.1.el5).
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