Re: 3ware 9550 SATA RAID controller problems

[Clive Menzies <clive@clivemenzies.co.uk>]

Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have not been able to find anything useful on the problem described 
> below. I could really use some ideas or suggestions.
>
> The one thing I have not tried is to build the driver based on the 3ware 
> source, but I have not had much luck building a kernel that works :( I'm 
> willing to try that again if I can get some detailed steps to do that, 
> maybe based on modifying the existing linux-image-2.6.15-1-em64t-p4-smp 
> and config.
>
> Thanks,
>   -Steve
>
> Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
>
> > OK, things are very close to completely working.
> >
> > Running the sid linux-image-2.6.15-1-em64t-p4-smp
> >
> > Have the ATAPI CDROM working :)
> > Recognizing the 3ware 9550 raid card.
> > Have built an ext3 filesystem and it mounts and read writes seem to be 
> > fine.
> >
> > BUT there is a problem on reboot.
> > The fsck check of the /dev/sdb1 fails to read the superblock and 
> > throws the boot process into maintenance mode. The device is fine and 
> > fsck reports that it is clean. and a ^D whether I fsck it or not 
> > brings up the system and the disk is fine.
> >
> > I seems like it might be a timing problem in that the array is not 
> > fully online before the system goes to check it. Or I didn't do 
> > something right when I partitioned and made the filesystem.

I had a similar problem and found putting libata and the sata drivers in 
/etc/modules solved the problem.

Regards

Clive