SATA detection mounting etc.

lonewoulf · n00b Joined: 28 May 2004 Posts: 15

I'm having issues with a Silicon Image SATA raid card, it's supported in the kernel, and I can see the kernel loading the right things for it in the boot messages (I think) but for the life of me, I can't tell where it is/ how to cfdisk it etc. if anyone would like to help me, it'd be appreciated

lonewoulf · n00b Joined: 28 May 2004 Posts: 15

oh, and I've searched around for solutions to this here and elsewhere, and have come up with no leads

danone · Guru Joined: 18 Jan 2004 Posts: 398 Location: Germany

send your dmesg output..maybe the drive is under /dev/sdN ? since you use SATA under SCSI not under IDE..
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srs5694 · Posted: Sat Jun 05, 2004 2:34 pm Post subject:

Gentoo uses devfs by default, so you should be able to spot all your disk devices by typing:

lonewoulf · n00b Joined: 28 May 2004 Posts: 15

I was looking in the /dev/ directory and say almost every combination of hd[letter][number] possible, I also saw some md[numbers] but no sd's, and I'm fairly certain I got the right driver, however lacking the ability to touch said computer until monday (due to the fact that it's not at my house) I can't be sure of that

srs5694 · Posted: Sun Jun 06, 2004 4:31 pm Post subject:

Well, then, it's possible that your system isn't using devfs, after all; if you're seeing /dev/hd? values for drives you don't have installed, that suggests that /dev is a regular directory. Depending on the driver you're using, you might then need to create device file entries using mknod. I'd suggest checking your dmesg output and other indicators of driver presence and hardware detection first, though, as others have suggested.

lonewoulf · n00b Joined: 28 May 2004 Posts: 15

prepare for dmesg stream
<dmesg>
Linux version 2.6.5-gentoo-r1 (root@fileserver) (gcc version 3.3.2 20031218 (Gentoo Linux 3.3.2-r5, propolice-3.3-7)) #11 Tue Jun 1 16:27:41 Local time zone must be set--see zic manu
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000003fff0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000003fff0000 - 000000003fff3000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 000000003fff3000 - 0000000040000000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
127MB HIGHMEM available.
896MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 262128
DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
Normal zone: 225280 pages, LIFO batch:16
HighMem zone: 32752 pages, LIFO batch:7
DMI 2.3 present.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 AOPEN ) @ 0x000f6370
ACPI: RSDT (v001 AOPEN AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x3fff3000
ACPI: FADT (v001 AOPEN AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x3fff3040
ACPI: DSDT (v001 AOPEN AWRDACPI 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000c) @ 0x00000000
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line:
Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- reenabling.
Found and enabled local APIC!
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 4096 (order 12: 32768 bytes)
Detected 1599.900 MHz processor.
Using tsc for high-res timesource
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Memory: 1032384k/1048512k available (3066k kernel code, 15220k reserved, 1089k data, 408k init, 131008k highmem)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay loop... 3153.92 BogoMIPS
Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
CPU: After generic identify, caps: 0383fbff c1cbfbff 00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 0383fbff c1cbfbff 00000000 00000000
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 256K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: After all inits, caps: 0383fbff c1cbfbff 00000000 00000020
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1900+ stepping 02
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
enabled ExtINT on CPU#0
ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000
ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000
Using local APIC timer interrupts.
calibrating APIC timer ...
..... CPU clock speed is 1599.0544 MHz.
..... host bus clock speed is 266.0590 MHz.
NET: Registered protocol family 16
spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb4a0, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040326
ACPI: IRQ9 SCI: Level Trigger.
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 *10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 *10 11 12 14 15)
SCSI subsystem initialized
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 11
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
PCI: if you experience problems, try using option 'pci=noacpi' or even 'acpi=off'
Machine check exception polling timer started.
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.16ac)
apm: overridden by ACPI.
highmem bounce pool size: 64 pages
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
devfs: 2004-01-31 Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
devfs: devfs_debug: 0x0
devfs: boot_options: 0x1
Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@monad.swb.de).
udf: registering filesystem
Initializing Cryptographic API
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SLPB]
ACPI: Fan [FAN] (on)
ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports C1 C2, 2 throttling states)
ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRM] (47 C)
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
input: ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse on isa0060/serio1
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
lp: driver loaded but no devices found
Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones
agpgart: Detected VIA KT266/KY266x/KT333 chipset
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 941M
agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xd0000000
[drm] Initialized i830 1.3.2 20021108 on minor 0
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 8 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP(,...)]
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
Using anticipatory io scheduler
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 5.2.30.1-k2
Copyright (c) 1999-2004 Intel Corporation.
ns83820.c: National Semiconductor DP83820 10/100/1000 driver.
sk98lin: No adapter found.
r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 1.2 loaded
r8169: PCI device 0000:00:0a.0: unknown chip version, assuming RTL-8169
r8169: PCI device 0000:00:0a.0: TxConfig = 0x4000000
eth0: Identified chip type is 'RTL-8169'.
eth0: RealTek RTL8169 Gigabit Ethernet at 0xf887e000, 00:0e:2e:03:e0:05, IRQ 11
eth0: Auto-negotiation Enabled.
eth0: 100Mbps Full-duplex operation.
ipddp.c:v0.01 8/28/97 Bradford W. Johnson <johns393@maroon.tc.umn.edu>
ipddp0: Appletalk-IP Encap. mode by Bradford W. Johnson <johns393@maroon.tc.umn.edu>
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:11.1
VP_IDE: chipset revision 6
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
VP_IDE: VIA vt8233a (rev 00) IDE UDMA133 controller on pci0000:00:11.1
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xb000-0xb007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xb008-0xb00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:DMA
hda: ST360021A, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hdd: SONY DVD RW DRU-500A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 117231408 sectors (60022 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(100)
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3 p4
hdd: ATAPI 32X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 8192kB Cache
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
libata version 1.02 loaded.
sata_sil version 0.54
ata1: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xF8884080 ctl 0xF888408A bmdma 0xF8884000 irq 10
ata2: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xF88840C0 ctl 0xF88840CA bmdma 0xF8884008 irq 10
ata3: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xF8884280 ctl 0xF888428A bmdma 0xF8884200 irq 10
ata4: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xF88842C0 ctl 0xF88842CA bmdma 0xF8884208 irq 10
ata1: no device found (phy stat 00000000)
ata1: thread exiting
scsi0 : sata_sil
ata2: no device found (phy stat 00000000)
ata2: thread exiting
scsi1 : sata_sil
ata3: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:346b 83:7d01 84:4003 85:3469 86:3c01 87:4003 88:207f
ata3: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/133, 312581808 sectors (lba48)
ata3: dev 0 configured for UDMA/100
scsi2 : sata_sil
ata4: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:346b 83:7d01 84:4003 85:3469 86:3c01 87:4003 88:207f
ata4: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/133, 312581808 sectors (lba48)
ata4: dev 0 configured for UDMA/100
scsi3 : sata_sil
Vendor: ATA Model: ST3160023AS Rev: 1.02
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05
Vendor: ATA Model: ST3160023AS Rev: 1.02
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05
md: raid0 personality registered as nr 2
md: raid1 personality registered as nr 3
md: multipath personality registered as nr 7
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
oprofile: using NMI interrupt.
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP: routing cache hash table of 8192 buckets, 64Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 65536)
ip_conntrack version 2.1 (8191 buckets, 65528 max) - 296 bytes per conntrack
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
ipt_recent v0.3.1: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>. http://snowman.net/projects/ipt_recent/
arp_tables: (C) 2002 David S. Miller
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
NET: Registered protocol family 5
ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S4 S5)
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
UDF-fs DEBUG fs/udf/lowlevel.c:65:udf_get_last_session: CDROMMULTISESSION not supported: rc=-22
UDF-fs DEBUG fs/udf/super.c:1552:udf_fill_super: Multi-session=0
UDF-fs DEBUG fs/udf/super.c:540:udf_vrs: Starting at sector 16 (2048 byte sectors)
UDF-fs: No VRS found
VFS: Mounted root (jfs filesystem) readonly.
Mounted devfs on /dev
Freeing unused kernel memory: 408k freed
Adding 2851528k swap on /dev/hda4. Priority:-1 extents:1
</dmesg>

yuza · Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2004 5:10 pm Post subject:

If you saw some md[numbers] then it's probable that the kernel is detecting correctly your RAID array... as it seems form your dmesg. I have no experience with hardware RAID (only software) but those md's should be your RAID partitions...

lonewoulf · n00b Joined: 28 May 2004 Posts: 15

I tried to cfdisk /dev/md0 it gave an error, is there something insanely simple I'm overlooking?

lonewoulf · n00b Joined: 28 May 2004 Posts: 15

thought you also might find this insteresting

JelloBrain · n00b Joined: 12 May 2004 Posts: 26 Location: Somewhere

use the SMP kernel. Type smp at the boot screen. Thats the only way it could find my S-ATA drive. it was, however listed as /dev/hdc for some reason.
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lonewoulf · n00b Joined: 28 May 2004 Posts: 15

this isn't during installation, this is regularly

I've modualized or enabled every driver in there (hopes autodetect works:) )