Jim Kusznir wrote:
> Hi all:
>
> After over a week of messing with OpenFiler, I think I'm finally close
> to getting my hardware I2O RAID card working (Promise SX6000). I had
> to upgrade the kernel, as the version shipping with OF has a bug in it
> that breaks all I2O RAID cards. I don't need iSCSI target for now, so
> I though tthis was acceptable.
Don't use i2o cards ;)
Stay away from anything named "Promise" or "Highpoint" if you want OF to
play nice with the RAID Controller.
Cards we tend to play better with are:
1) 3Ware / AMCC
2) Areca
3) LSI Logic / Intel
4) Adaptec
5) ICP Vortex
>
> Now that I have it showing up in my system, things are close. The
> problem is I2O raid devices are created in /dev/i2o/hd* (my case:
> /dev/i2o/hda -- this is NOT the same disk as my system disk:
> /dev/hda). So, under "Physical Volues", it does not see it, and thus
> I can't partition or use it. I have verified that the volume itself
> works by partitioning and formatting it directly. Both operations
> completed sucessfully, verifying the raid drivers funcitionality.
>
> So my question at this point is: how do I get OF to see the disk and
> be able to create volumes and such. Or, if I partition and set up LVM
> by hand, will it pick it up at that point? If so, what are its
> requirements to make it seen?
Here's a patch to /opt/openfiler/sbin/list-disks.pl
--- list-disks.pl.orig 2007-07-20 15:18:22.000000000 -0700
+++ list-disks.pl 2007-07-20 15:26:24.000000000 -0700
@@ -123,6 +123,7 @@
close(MEDIA);
if ($media =~ /^disk/ && !$_[0]) {
push(@devs, "/dev/hd$n");
+ push(@devs, "/dev/i2o/hd$n");
}
}
}
R.
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