On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 12:09 -0500, 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. no ... the raid add on for the 94xx was Aic proprietary. To get RAID to work you need to use the linux md software RAID. > 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). Adaptec is supposed to use an industry standard RAID format, so it's theoretically possible that MD might understand it, but I'd really advise initiallising the volume from linux using mdadm and simply dumping the adaptec tool ... that way you won't get any nasty compatibility surprises. James -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
