From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Robert Hancock Subject: Re: aic94xx and the adaptec sata raid controller (aic-9410) Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:46:39 -0600 Message-ID: <4A95F38F.9060509@gmail.com> References: <4A956C59.2010709@globaldataguard.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail-gx0-f205.google.com ([209.85.217.205]:38006 "EHLO mail-gx0-f205.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754829AbZH0Cql (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Aug 2009 22:46:41 -0400 Received: by gxk1 with SMTP id 1so825029gxk.17 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:46:42 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4A956C59.2010709@globaldataguard.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Kurt Newman Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org 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). > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >