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can't see volumes from a NexStor 4700s (Raid array)



I'm having some trouble seeing the volumes of my disk array (NexStor 4700s) on any of my debian (Sarge, 2.6.8 kernel) machines. Does anyone have this working? It's plugged into an Adaptec aha-2940u2b (using the aic7xxx module). I've also tried the aic7xxx_old modules but I get the same result. I've had the vender check my setting (on the array) and they seem to think it's fine. Actually, it does work on a windoze machine ..... but who want to use that. :)

The interesting thing is that the aic7xxx module does see the NexStor device but not the volumes.

Here's what I get:

                   ~snip from dmesg~

SCSI subsystem initialized
scsi0 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.36
       <Adaptec 2940B Ultra2 SCSI adapter>
       aic7890/91: Ultra2 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs

Using anticipatory io scheduler
(scsi0:A:0): 80.000MB/s transfers (40.000MHz, offset 63, 16bit)
 Vendor: IBM-PSG   Model: ST318404LW    !#  Rev: 3146
 Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 03
scsi0:A:0:0: Tagged Queuing enabled.  Depth 8
SCSI device sda: 35548320 512-byte hdwr sectors (18201 MB)
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3
Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
(scsi0:A:2): 80.000MB/s transfers (40.000MHz, offset 63, 16bit)
 Vendor: IBM-PSG   Model: ST318404LW    !#  Rev: 3146
 Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 03
scsi0:A:2:0: Tagged Queuing enabled.  Depth 8
SCSI device sdb: 35548320 512-byte hdwr sectors (18201 MB)
SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back
/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target2/lun0: p1
Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 2, lun 0
(scsi0:A:5): 80.000MB/s transfers (40.000MHz, offset 127, 16bit)
 Vendor: nStor     Model: NexStorWahooSATA  Rev:
 Type:   Processor                          ANSI SCSI revision: 03
scsi0:A:5:0: Tagged Queuing enabled.  Depth 8
 Vendor: nStor     Model: NexStorWahooSATA  Rev:
 Type:   Processor                          ANSI SCSI revision: 03
scsi0:A:5:6: Tagged Queuing enabled.  Depth 8

   ~ modprobe.con and modules.conf ~

options scsi_mod max_scsi_luns=64 scsi_allow_ghost_devices=256 check_device_type=0
options sd_mod max_scsi_disks_fs=1
options aic7xxx extended verbose scbram

~/end~

NOTES: - I did update my initrd image after I added these items to the modprobe.conf (and modules.conf). - the disk volumes are mapped to lun 000,001,002 (I've tried 003,004,005 as well)


If anyone has any hints for me,  I'd really appreciate them!!!!!  Thanks!

Mario






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