Re: SCSI RAID --answer--


Subject: Re: SCSI RAID --answer--
From: Hollis R Blanchard (hollis+@andrew.cmu.edu)
Date: Wed Oct 25 2000 - 21:10:42 MDT


On Wed, 25 Oct 2000 christopher.murtagh@wcg.mcgill.ca wrote:
>
> I tried fdisk, pdisk, mke2fs... you name it, all on the /dev/sg1 and all
> it would do is hang. Until, I did a funny thing and read the manual for
> the RAID hardware. I read something about the SCSI card needing to be able
> to scan multiple LUNs. It turns out the hardware controller was using LUN
> 0 and that it was assigning the RAID array to LUN 1. All I had to do was
> reverse this, and boom, it was detected as a SCSI device at bootup
> (/dev/sdb this time) and mke2fs worked no problem!

Good to know.

I think there's a SCSI kernel option that says "probe all LUN's" or
something; maybe that would have helped too.

Anyways, cool that it's working. :)

-Hollis



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