Hi everyone, I just joined this mailing list after reading for some time. Because i couldn't find the answer to my question either on google or on this list i thought i'd give posting a go. Here's my problem, We bought a dozen of Supermicro servers at the DC i work for. The server models are all the same, Superserver 6014P-T with an AOC-SOZCR1 snap-in mini-pci raid card. (The raidcard is a rebranded Adaptec 2025s) After building the raid 1 configuration the usual way, through the h/w bios, i tried to boot linux. It seems the kernel detects an compatible controller, but instead of just showing my logical drives it also detects detects and lists my physical drives. (See kernel output below) I tried this with kernel 2.6.14.4 and 2.6.14.5. Does anyone else experience the same problems as i do? Or may be this is normal behavior of the driver? I included the output of the kernel, i'm willing to test and contribute in any way i can. Any help would be greatly appriciated! --kernel output-- Bridge: 0000:01:00.2 IO window: disabled. MEM window: d4400000-d5ffffff PREFETCH window: dc000000-dfffffff PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:02.0 IO window: 2000-2fff MEM window: d4100000-d5ffffff PREFETCH window: dc000000-dfffffff PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:04.0 IO window: disabled. MEM window: disabled. PREFETCH window: disabled. PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:06.0 IO window: disabled. MEM window: disabled. PREFETCH window: disabled. PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1e.0 IO window: 3000-3fff MEM window: d6000000-d7ffffff PREFETCH window: d1000000-d10fffff ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:02.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:02.0 to 64 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:01:00.0 to 64 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:01:00.2 to 64 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:04.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:04.0 to 64 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:06.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:06.0 to 64 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1e.0 to 64 Simple Boot Flag at 0x39 set to 0x1 IA-32 Microcode Update Driver: v1.14 <tigran@xxxxxxxxxxx> highmem bounce pool size: 64 pages VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1 Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes) Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@xxxxxxxxxxxx). Initializing Cryptographic API ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF] ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWRB] ACPI: CPU0 (power states: C1[C1]) ACPI: CPU1 (power states: C1[C1]) Real Time Clock Driver v1.12 serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12 serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1 Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing disabled ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A io scheduler noop registered io scheduler anticipatory registered io scheduler deadline registered io scheduler cfq registered Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 RAMDISK driver initialized: 1 RAM disks of 12000K size 1024 blocksize loop: loaded (max 8 devices) Compaq SMART2 Driver (v 2.6.0) HP CISS Driver (v 2.6.8) nbd: registered device at major 43 Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 6.0.60-k2-NAPI Copyright (c) 1999-2005 Intel Corporation. ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:03.0[A] -> GSI 30 (level, low) -> IRQ 17 e1000: eth0: e1000_probe: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:03.1[B] -> GSI 31 (level, low) -> IRQ 18 e1000: eth1: e1000_probe: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection e100: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver, 3.4.14-k2-NAPI e100: Copyright(c) 1999-2005 Intel Corporation ns83820.c: National Semiconductor DP83820 10/100/1000 driver. Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx ICH5: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.1 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.1[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 19 ICH5: chipset revision 2 ICH5: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0x14a0-0x14a7, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0x14a8-0x14af, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio Probing IDE interface ide0... Probing IDE interface ide1... hdc: CD-224E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 Probing IDE interface ide0... hdc: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(33) Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 Adaptec aacraid driver (1.1-4 Jan 2 2006 10:37:11) ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:03.0[A] -> GSI 58 (level, low) -> IRQ 20 AAC0: kernel 4.2-1[7373] AAC0: monitor 4.2-1[7373] AAC0: bios 4.2-1[7373] AAC0: Non-DASD support enabled. AAC0: 64bit support enabled. AAC0: 64 Bit DAC enabled scsi0 : aacraid Vendor: ADAPTEC Model: ASR-2025ZCR Mirr Rev: V1.0 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Vendor: MAXTOR Model: ATLAS10K5_73SCA Rev: JNZH Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 Vendor: MAXTOR Model: ATLAS10K5_73SCA Rev: JNZH Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 Vendor: SUPER Model: GEM318 Rev: 0 Type: Processor ANSI SCSI revision: 02 NCR53c406a: no available ports found sym53c416.c: Version 1.0.0-ac QLogic Fibre Channel HBA Driver megaraid cmm: 2.20.2.6 (Release Date: Mon Mar 7 00:01:03 EST 2005) megaraid: 2.20.4.6 (Release Date: Mon Mar 07 12:27:22 EST 2005) GDT-HA: Storage RAID Controller Driver. Version: 3.04 GDT-HA: Found 0 PCI Storage RAID Controllers libata version 1.12 loaded. SCSI device sda: 143552512 512-byte hdwr sectors (73499 MB) sda: Write Protect is off sda: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00 sda: got wrong page sda: assuming drive cache: write through SCSI device sda: 143552512 512-byte hdwr sectors (73499 MB) sda: Write Protect is off sda: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00 sda: got wrong page sda: assuming drive cache: write through sda: unknown partition table Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 SCSI device sdb: 143666192 512-byte hdwr sectors (73557 MB) SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back SCSI device sdb: 143666192 512-byte hdwr sectors (73557 MB) SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back sdb: unknown partition table Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 1, id 0, lun 0 SCSI device sdc: 143666192 512-byte hdwr sectors (73557 MB) SCSI device sdc: drive cache: write back SCSI device sdc: 143666192 512-byte hdwr sectors (73557 MB) SCSI device sdc: drive cache: write back sdc: unknown partition table Attached scsi disk sdc at scsi0, channel 1, id 1, lun 0 mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice I2O subsystem v1.288 i2o: max drivers = 8 I2O Configuration OSM v1.248 I2O Bus Adapter OSM v$Rev$ I2O Block Device OSM v1.287 I2O SCSI Peripheral OSM v1.282 I2O ProcFS OSM v1.145 md: raid0 personality registered as nr 2 md: raid1 personality registered as nr 3 md: raid5 personality registered as nr 4 raid5: automatically using best checksumming function: pIII_sse pIII_sse : 4857.000 MB/sec raid5: using function: pIII_sse (4857.000 MB/sec) raid6: int32x1 835 MB/s raid6: int32x2 922 MB/s input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0 raid6: int32x4 617 MB/s raid6: int32x8 552 MB/s raid6: mmxx1 1829 MB/s raid6: mmxx2 2113 MB/s raid6: sse1x1 1060 MB/s raid6: sse1x2 1194 MB/s raid6: sse2x1 2099 MB/s raid6: sse2x2 2249 MB/s raid6: using algorithm sse2x2 (2249 MB/s) md: raid6 personality registered as nr 8 md: md driver 0.90.2 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 md: bitmap version 3.39 device-mapper: 4.4.0-ioctl (2005-01-12) initialised: dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx NET: Registered protocol family 2 IP route cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes) TCP established hash table entries: 524288 (order: 10, 4194304 bytes) TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) TCP: Hash tables configured (established 524288 bind 65536) TCP reno registered ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team arp_tables: (C) 2002 David S. Miller TCP bic registered Netfilter messages via NETLINK v0.30. NET: Registered protocol family 1 NET: Registered protocol family 10 IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver ip6_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team registering ipv6 mark target NET: Registered protocol family 17 Starting balanced_irq Using IPI Shortcut mode md: Autodetecting RAID arrays. md: autorun ... md: ... autorun DONE. RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 EXT2-fs warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is recommended VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). Freeing unused kernel memory: 292k freed VFS: Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev fd0. --kernel-output-- -- Met vriendelijke groet / With kind regards, Peter Bosgraaf // Wireless Internet Access Friesland Tel: +31-627-070-596 // http://www.wiaf.nl - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html