[wellylug] redhat 7.2 Compaq ml350 scsi question

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If you have set the new disks as an array you may find that the disks now have a
c0d0 label rather than sda.

HTH

Quoting Mark Signal <mark at databackup.co.nz>:

> Hi all
> 
> Don't know if this is technically a Linux question or not but here
> goes...
> 
> Over the weekend I had to install an Adaptec scsi card and 2 70 gig
> drives
> in an external enclosure in a Compaq ml-350.
> 
> the physical install went fine and I built a raid 1 array without
> problems
> but the new controller card then decided it was id 00 and that it just
> had
> to boot from this controller instead of the existing Compaq Adaptec
> controller that contains the operating system on another exiting array.
> 
> I got round this by turning off the bios on the new controller. It still
> saw
> the drives etc at boot time and then booted off of the existing array
> into
> redhat 7.2.
> 
> My problem is (apart from being out of my depth :) that I expected the
> new
> array to appear as something like /dev/sda1 and then I could fdisk,
> mkfs
> etc. Well I cant find the new array - where do I look?
> 
> do I need to install a driver for the scsci card?
> 
> Any suggestions appreciated..
> 
> cheers
> 
> Mark
> 
> 
> 
> 
> if I cat proc/partitions I get the existing Compaq array stuff....
> 
> major minor #blocks name rio rmerge rsect ruse wio wmerge wsect wuse
> running use aveq
> 
>  104 0 53341920 cciss/c0d0 16693794 10882850 220490392 9969750 957208
> 1045612 16116420 97050 0 5539190 10066610
>  104 1 53024 cciss/c0d0p1 4723 15602 40650 7650 39 35 148 0 0 5240
> 7650
>  104 2 20971200 cciss/c0d0p2 15019490 10048600 200544246 8745210
> 239440 244695 3901632 25520 0 4978450 8769980
>  104 3 6291360 cciss/c0d0p3 92215 41020 1065822 310610 160515 213024
> 3020248 28370 0 57050 339170
>  104 4 1 cciss/c0d0p4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
>  104 5 6291344 cciss/c0d0p5 837121 409436 9972542 527960 121896
> 114266 1905056 9990 0 270010 538010
>  104 6 4194224 cciss/c0d0p6 536761 290109 6614878 244230 142859
> 159759 2422232 17760 0 161190 261950
>  104 7 3145664 cciss/c0d0p7 51622 28184 638350 72990 78755 74779
> 1237384 7880 0 31060 80940
>  104 8 2097104 cciss/c0d0p8 135118 44462 1436642 52610 206994 229039
> 3489776 6360 0 36410 58910
>  104 9 1048544 cciss/c0d0p9 16730 5437 177222 8700 6710 10015 139944
> 1200 0 7420 9890
>  104 10 2044064 cciss/c0d0p10 2 0 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
> 
> 
> under /proc/scsci/scsi only the onboard tape controller is shown
> under /proc/scsci/aic7899/0 there is..
> 
> Adaptec AIC7xxx driver version: 6.1.13
> aic7899: Ultra160 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/255 SCBs
> Channel A Target 0 Negotiation Settings
>  User: 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz DT, offset 255, 16bit)
> Channel A Target 1 Negotiation Settings
>  User: 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz DT, offset 255, 16bit)
> Channel A Target 2 Negotiation Settings
>  User: 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz DT, offset 255, 16bit)
> Channel A Target 3 Negotiation Settings
>  User: 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz DT, offset 255, 16bit)
> Channel A Target 4 Negotiation Settings
>  User: 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz DT, offset 255, 16bit)
> Channel A Target 5 Negotiation Settings
>  User: 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz DT, offset 255, 16bit)
> Channel A Target 6 Negotiation Settings
>  User: 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz DT, offset 255, 16bit)
>  Goal: 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 7, 16bit)
>  Curr: 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 7, 16bit)
>  Channel A Target 6 Lun 0 Settings
>  Commands Queued 4611386
>  Commands Active 0
>  Command Openings 1
>  Max Tagged Openings 0
>  Device Queue Frozen Count 0
> Channel A Target 7 Negotiation Settings
>  User: 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz DT, offset 255, 16bit)
> Channel A Target 8 Negotiation Settings
>  User: 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz DT, offset 255, 16bit)
> Channel A Target 9 Negotiation Settings
>  User: 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz DT, offset 255, 16bit)
> Channel A Target 10 Negotiation Settings
>  User: 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz DT, offset 255, 16bit)
> Channel A Target 11 Negotiation Settings
>  User: 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz DT, offset 255, 16bit)
> Channel A Target 12 Negotiation Settings
>  User: 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz DT, offset 255, 16bit)
> Channel A Target 13 Negotiation Settings
>  User: 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz DT, offset 255, 16bit)
> Channel A Target 14 Negotiation Settings
>  User: 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz DT, offset 255, 16bit)
> Channel A Target 15 Negotiation Settings
>  User: 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz DT, offset 255, 16bit)
> 
> and under /proc/scsci/aic7899/1 there is..
> 
> Adaptec AIC7xxx driver version: 6.1.13
> aic7899: Ultra160 Wide Channel B, SCSI Id=7, 32/255 SCBs
> Channel A Target 0 Negotiation Settings
>  User: 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz DT, offset 255, 16bit)
> Channel A Target 1 Negotiation Settings
>  User: 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz DT, offset 255, 16bit)
> Channel A Target 2 Negotiation Settings
>  User: 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz DT, offset 255, 16bit)
> Channel A Target 3 Negotiation Settings
>  User: 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz DT, offset 255, 16bit)
> Channel A Target 4 Negotiation Settings
>  User: 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz DT, offset 255, 16bit)
> Channel A Target 5 Negotiation Settings
>  User: 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz DT, offset 255, 16bit)
> Channel A Target 6 Negotiation Settings
>  User: 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz DT, offset 255, 16bit)
> Channel A Target 7 Negotiation Settings
>  User: 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz DT, offset 255, 16bit)
> Channel A Target 8 Negotiation Settings
>  User: 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz DT, offset 255, 16bit)
> Channel A Target 9 Negotiation Settings
>  User: 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz DT, offset 255, 16bit)
> Channel A Target 10 Negotiation Settings
>  User: 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz DT, offset 255, 16bit)
> Channel A Target 11 Negotiation Settings
>  User: 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz DT, offset 255, 16bit)
> Channel A Target 12 Negotiation Settings
>  User: 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz DT, offset 255, 16bit)
> Channel A Target 13 Negotiation Settings
>  User: 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz DT, offset 255, 16bit)
> Channel A Target 14 Negotiation Settings
>  User: 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz DT, offset 255, 16bit)
> Channel A Target 15 Negotiation Settings
>  User: 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz DT, offset 255, 16bit)
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