From: Kyle Bader <kyle.bader@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 8 bays/drives in server: only 6 seen in gentoo
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:32:07 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <854dca5c1003261732i4b41274dtbb872f61e06f8c38@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BAD3E3F.7050605@xunil.at>
Doesn't help right now but it sounds like an expander cable might be loose.
On 3/26/10, Stefan G. Weichinger <lists@xunil.at> wrote:
>
> Does anyone know this?
>
> I run 2.6.27-gentoo-r8 on a server, amd64 ..
>
> It has 8 hotswap-bays for hdds and lspci says it uses a --->
>
> Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB SATA AHCI Controller
>
> So far I used the ahci-kernel-module, it worked.
>
> Until now we used only 4 hdds in that box, today I added 4 more.
>
> But I only see six drives ... /dev/sd[a-f] ... no /dev/sd[gh]
>
> hmmm
>
> I don't know if all the bays are wired correctly, I would have to take
> the server offline for a longer period to check that. But I think one
> could expect those hotswap-bays wired ready to use.
>
> My thought is, maybe the ahci-module is/was somehow limited with this
> kernel? Maybe I should use another module?
>
> This server is remote, so I have to be careful right now.
>
> Thanks for any hints, Stefan
>
>
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Kyle
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2010-03-26 23:07 [gentoo-user] 8 bays/drives in server: only 6 seen in gentoo Stefan G. Weichinger
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