Re: udev problems on gentoo with adaptec 3210s raid

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 09:44:23AM -0700, David Lang wrote:
> under older kernels on 32 bit systems this card has used the dpt driver 
> and the raid devices show up instead of the individual drives.
> 
> however on 2.6.17-rc1 on a amd64 gentoo system I had to enable the i2o 
> drivers, and I get the individual drives showing up instead of the arrays. 
> reading the help for the i2o options, it appears as if enableing i2o_block 
> should give me the arrays, and enabling i2o_scsi should give me the 
> individual drives. disableing the i2o_scsi does make the drives go away, 
> but I still don't have the arrays showing up.
> 
> it looks as if they are appearing in sysfs, and so I suspect that udev 
> isn't handling them correctly so there are no device nodes being created 
> for them.
> 
> this being gentoo I did do an emerge udev last night to make sure it was 
> up to date.
> 
> what additional info would be useful in tracking this down?

Try asking the i2o driver authors if they have added sysfs support for
their drivers.  If not, there's nothing that udev can do to help.

thanks,

greg k-h


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