From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gregory Leblanc Subject: Re: 3ware 7500-8 confusion Date: 22 Feb 2003 22:03:39 -0800 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1045980219.2132.16.camel@gregdell> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-ClRkIcTjIvMu1tzHaAeD" Return-path: In-Reply-To: To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids --=-ClRkIcTjIvMu1tzHaAeD Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 2003-02-22 at 21:08, Alvin Oga wrote: > hi ya Raiders >=20 > okay... i confess ... i'm lost and confused ... >=20 > we have a dual amd mb + 9 drive bays w/ 200GB drives >=20 > the drives are connected to a 3ware 7500-8 > and the drives is recognized during bios bootup and linux-2.4.19/20 > bootup recognized the controller too >=20 > the 3ware bios created the raid array out of the 8 drives > ( supposedly .. waited a long time for it to finish ) >=20 > 3dm was installed from the cdrom that came w/ the controller >=20 > http://localhost:1080 > - shows the list of drives in the raid > - shows the other info abut the 3ware card Sounds like you've got things set up correctly. > but now that i wanna use the hw raid, and want to do: > fdisk /dev/md0 > mke2fsc -j -m 1 /dev/md0 > mount /dev/md0 /Raid >=20 > but there is no such thing as /dev/md0 ... *pout* Err, right, there isn't. /dev/md? is only for software RAID devices.=20 If you've got the 3ware kernel modules loaded, then your 3ware RAID device should show up as /dev/sd? dmesg should have more info, or /proc/scsi. > what is the name of the device ( /dev/xxx ) that 3ware built ?? > - went digging/googling around but didnt find my answer yet >=20 > for freebsd ... i think its /dev/twed >=20 > -- if its supposed to be /dev/md0 ... guess some step along the > way is missing in the steps i did to configure the 3ware 7500-8 card >=20 > -- ie .. i dont see the 3ware bios section that allows > a JBOD vs raid5 either... so its defaulted to raid5 for now There is a way to configure the 3ware card to just work as JBOD. I don't recall what it is offhand (I've got an older card with only 4 ports as well). It doesn't seem to make much sense to buy a pretty nice RAID card like this one and then not use it's RAID features, though.=20 HTH, Greg --=-ClRkIcTjIvMu1tzHaAeD Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA+WGQ6nAkVXO6fw4sRAlR1AJ9ZJEH/Hl+zn19jq0xQ+SGSgHyOXACdENV4 TYkBbL5+Uqw3aPzT+QFZQjY= =F4Nq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-ClRkIcTjIvMu1tzHaAeD--