I had a similar problem with the sil3132 and a 4 drive enclosure.

I was using CentOS 5.1, at the time. Installing 5.2 with the 3132 drivers form the SiI website, resolved the raid issues.

Daniel

-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Ruslan Sivak Sent: Monday, May 04, 2009 10:33 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Rosewill RSV-S8 Storage Enclosure Support

Ruslan Sivak wrote:

I'm trying to get RSV-S8 working with Citrix XenServer 5 update 3

(which

I believe runs CentOS 5.something).

I have the Rosewill card that comes with it in there (sil3132 based).

It's seeing the card, and seeing all my drives.

I fdisk the drives and I can create the partitions, but I am unable to

set up either software raid or create filesystems. I keep getting errors saying that the volumes are in use (although they do not appear

to be mounted anywhere).

# mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdc1 mke2fs 1.39 (29-May-2006) /dev/sdc1 is apparently in use by the system; will not make a

filesystem

here!

# mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=0 --raid-devices=2 /dev/sdb1

/dev/sdc1

mdadm: Cannot open /dev/sdb1: Device or resource busy mdadm: Cannot open /dev/sdc1: Device or resource busy mdadm: create aborted

Am I doing something wrong or is it possibly an issue with the driver?

I had no problems using this under windows.

Russ

I take it nobody has experience with this?

Russ

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