On 12/10/2010 11:46 AM, Daryl Herzmann wrote: > Hi All, > > Anybody have a thought on this? Having this issue isn't the end of > the world, as my software raid array simply rebuilds after every > reboot ;) > > Hopefully once OMSA for RHEL6 comes out, I can try updating everything > and see if that helps. > > thanks, > daryl > > On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 5:58 PM, Daryl Herzmann<akrh...@iastate.edu> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I have been happily using a PE 2950 for a while now and decided to >> swap out its front 6 3.5" SATA drives for Seagate 2 TB Barracuda XT's. >> Well, I can't seem to get the controller card to recognize the drive >> in "bay 1" (second drive). The strange part is that once RHEL6 boots, >> about a minute after boot, the drive magically appears !?!? >> >> Dec 3 17:50:13 xxx kernel: mptsas: ioc0: attaching sata device: >> fw_channel 0, fw_id 1, phy 1, sas_addr 0x1221000001000000 >> Dec 3 17:50:13 xxx kernel: scsi 0:0:5:0: Direct-Access ATA >> ST32000641AS CC13 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 >> Dec 3 17:50:13 xxx kernel: sd 0:0:5:0: Attached scsi generic sg6 type 0 >> Dec 3 17:50:13 xxx kernel: sd 0:0:5:0: [sdf] 3907029168 512-byte >> logical blocks: (2.00 TB/1.81 TiB) >> Dec 3 17:50:13 xxx kernel: sd 0:0:5:0: [sdf] Write Protect is off >> Dec 3 17:50:13 xxx kernel: sd 0:0:5:0: [sdf] Write cache: enabled, >> read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA >> Dec 3 17:50:13 xxx kernel: sdf: sdf1 >> Dec 3 17:50:13 xxx kernel: sd 0:0:5:0: [sdf] Attached SCSI disk >> >> Of course, this causes trouble when I attempt to have that drive in a RAID5 >> :) >> >> Anyway, I've tried moving drives around, etc. No luck. The controller >> will recognize smaller sized drives though, including a 1 TB one. I >> recently ran OMSA update_firmware, so I believe I am up to date. >> >> Any ideas what would be causing this? >> >> thanks! >> daryl >> > _______________________________________________ > Linux-PowerEdge mailing list > Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com > https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge > Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq MIght be because you are hitting hte 2.19 terabyte barrier due to LBA limitations: http://www.storagereview.com/western_digital_caviar_green_3tb_review_wd30ezrsdtl
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