From: Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@gmail.com>
To: Kurt Newman <knewman@globaldataguard.com>
Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: aic94xx and the adaptec sata raid controller (aic-9410)
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:46:39 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A95F38F.9060509@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A956C59.2010709@globaldataguard.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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-27 2:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-26 17:09 aic94xx and the adaptec sata raid controller (aic-9410) Kurt Newman
2009-08-26 19:12 ` James Bottomley
2009-08-26 20:57 ` Kurt Newman
2009-08-27 2:46 ` Robert Hancock [this message]
2009-08-27 15:06 ` Kurt Newman
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