From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kurt Newman Subject: aic94xx and the adaptec sata raid controller (aic-9410) Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:09:45 -0500 Message-ID: <4A956C59.2010709@globaldataguard.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail.globaldataguard.com ([67.210.231.115]:57255 "EHLO mail2.globaldataguard.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751236AbZHZRQK (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:16:10 -0400 Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org 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. 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).