This is... odd. Got a 6.8 box, a Dell R320 lspci tells me
01:00.0 RAID bus controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic MegaRAID SAS 2008
[Falcon] (rev 03)
so it *should* accept an SAS drive. I've got a Cheetah that's a few
years
old, and having pulled it out of another server (in the datecenter), I put
it in this box to zero it out for reuse... and the box refuses to see the
drive. *Nothing* in dmesg, *nothing* in /var/log/messages, and I tried
echo "0" etc to get the SCSI buses to rescan.
Anyone have any ideas?
mark
On 27/07/16 09:11, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:> This is... odd. Got a 6.8 box, a Dell R320 lspci tells me > 01:00.0 RAID bus controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic MegaRAID SAS 2008 > [Falcon] (rev 03) > so it *should* accept an SAS drive. I've got a Cheetah that's a few years > old, and having pulled it out of another server (in the datecenter), I put > it in this box to zero it out for reuse... and the box refuses to see the > drive. *Nothing* in dmesg, *nothing* in /var/log/messages, and I tried > echo "0" etc to get the SCSI buses to rescan. > > Anyone have any ideas?That's a hardware RAID controller, so it won't (by default) see single drives and pass them directly to the OS like a normal disk controller would. You need to go into the RAID config (you should see an option to do this at boot) and configure a RAID with a single disk in a RAID0 configuration. Peter
On 7/26/2016 2:38 PM, Peter wrote:> On 27/07/16 09:11,m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> >This is... odd. Got a 6.8 box, a Dell R320 lspci tells me >> >01:00.0 RAID bus controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic MegaRAID SAS 2008 >> >[Falcon] (rev 03) >> >so it*should* accept an SAS drive. I've got a Cheetah that's a few years >> >old, and having pulled it out of another server (in the datecenter), I put >> >it in this box to zero it out for reuse... and the box refuses to see the >> >drive.*Nothing* in dmesg,*nothing* in /var/log/messages, and I tried >> >echo "0" etc to get the SCSI buses to rescan. >> > >> >Anyone have any ideas? > That's a hardware RAID controller, so it won't (by default) see single > drives and pass them directly to the OS like a normal disk controller > would. You need to go into the RAID config (you should see an option to > do this at boot) and configure a RAID with a single disk in a RAID0 > configuration.or use the MegaCli from linux to do the same, but the syntax is nasty -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz