3ware device names

[Joel Jaeggli]

On Thu, 22 Jul 2004, Michael Mansour wrote:

> Hi Joel,
>
>>> I have a 3ware controller in a new server I just
>>> received, and have installed FC1 on it. The
>> controller
>>> is detected but I can't find the devices hanging
>> off
>>> it at all. It's got 4 250gb PATA drives on the
>>> controller.
>>
>> first you assign them to a unit in the 3ware
>> controller's bios, hit alt-3
>> when the 3ware bios screen is up, (either a stripe
>> of one kind or other,
>> or jbod) then they show up as /dev/sd(a)(b)(c)
>
> That's where my problem is. I've assigned the 4 250's
> under a raid 5 array within the 3ware, but when
> booting into FC1 I don't see any /dev/sd? devices.
>
> Is there some way I can check the 3ware driver is
> loaded properly? (I saw kudzu install support for it
> on bootup).

if you run dmesg from the command prompt and scrolls back you should see 
something like this when the modules loads (I have two stripes)

SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
3ware Storage Controller device driver for Linux v1.02.00.036.
scsi0 : Found a 3ware Storage Controller at 0xe800, IRQ: 16, P-chip: 1.3
scsi0 : 3ware Storage Controller
blk: queue f7f52a18, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
   Vendor: 3ware     Model: Logical Disk 0    Rev: 1.0
   Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 00
blk: queue f7f52818, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
   Vendor: 3ware     Model: Logical Disk 3    Rev: 1.0
   Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 00
blk: queue f7f52618, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 3, lun 0
SCSI device sda: 490232704 512-byte hdwr sectors (250999 MB)
Partition check:
  sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 < sda5 >
SCSI device sdb: 3921861632 512-byte hdwr sectors (2007993 MB)
  sdb: sdb1


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