We've got this PC PitStop RAID box (they're so proud of it, there's no logo), and what lspci tells me is an Adaptec AAC-RAID (ref 09) controller. I see there's no F/OSS controllers for it, but when I go to Adaptec's site, the search denies all knowledge of such a controller. I'd like to get the correct one, and I really want an x86_64 version; googling found me a 386 rpm.
Anyone know how to identify what *Adaptec* calls this thing, so I can find the info I need on their site?
mark
m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
We've got this PC PitStop RAID box (they're so proud of it, there's no logo), and what lspci tells me is an Adaptec AAC-RAID (ref 09) controller. I see there's no F/OSS controllers for it, but when I go to Adaptec's site, the search denies all knowledge of such a controller. I'd like to get the correct one, and I really want an x86_64 version; googling found me a 386 rpm.
Anyone know how to identify what *Adaptec* calls this thing, so I can find the info I need on their site?
Has nobody here worked with those cards?
mark
On 6/13/2013 11:52 AM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
We've got this PC PitStop RAID box (they're so proud of it, there's no logo), and what lspci tells me is an Adaptec AAC-RAID (ref 09) controller. I see there's no F/OSS controllers for it, but when I go to Adaptec's site, the search denies all knowledge of such a controller. I'd like to get the correct one, and I really want an x86_64 version; googling found me a 386 rpm.
Anyone know how to identify what*Adaptec* calls this thing, so I can find the info I need on their site?
Has nobody here worked with those cards?
try lspci -n -s xx:yy where xx:yy is the ID #s shown on the plain lspci output. report what the vendor/device ID is, like...
# lspci .... 05:06.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7899P U160/m (rev 01) 05:06.1 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7899P U160/m (rev 01) ... [root@freescruz ~]# lspci -s 05:06 -n 05:06.0 0100: 9005:00cf (rev 01) 05:06.1 0100: 9005:00cf (rev 01)
and maybe those vendor ID's (9005:00CF) can be used to identify what chipset it actually is.
John R Pierce wrote:
On 6/13/2013 11:52 AM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
We've got this PC PitStop RAID box (they're so proud of it, there's no logo), and what lspci tells me is an Adaptec AAC-RAID (ref 09) controller. I see there's no F/OSS controllers for it, but when I go to Adaptec's >site, the search denies all knowledge of such a controller. I'd like to get the correct one, and I really want an x86_64 version; googling found >me a 386 rpm.
Anyone know how to identify what*Adaptec* calls this thing, so I can
find the info I need on their site?
Has nobody here worked with those cards?
try lspci -n -s xx:yy where xx:yy is the ID #s shown on the plain lspci output. report what the vendor/device ID is, like...
# lspci .... 05:06.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7899P U160/m (rev 01) 05:06.1 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7899P U160/m (rev 01) ... [root@freescruz ~]# lspci -s 05:06 -n 05:06.0 0100: 9005:00cf (rev 01) 05:06.1 0100: 9005:00cf (rev 01)
and maybe those vendor ID's (9005:00CF) can be used to identify what chipset it actually is.
Sorry if I didn't make that clear in the original post; I did note the additional flag you mention, and here's what I get: $ lspci | grep -i raid 03:00.0 RAID bus controller: Adaptec AAC-RAID (rev 09) 04:00.0 RAID bus controller: Adaptec AAC-RAID (rev 09) $ lspci -s 03:00 -n 03:00.0 0104: 9005:0285 (rev 09) $ lspci -s 04:00 -n 04:00.0 0104: 9005:0285 (rev 09)
Which is pretty much what I thought... but again, if I go to Adaptec's site, and try to search on AAC, it returns zip.
mark
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$ lspci -s 03:00 -n 03:00.0 0104: 9005:0285 (rev 09) $ lspci -s 04:00 -n 04:00.0 0104: 9005:0285 (rev 09)
Which is pretty much what I thought... but again, if I go to Adaptec's site, and try to search on AAC, it returns zip.
markHaven't read it throughly but what about this
Tom Bishop wrote:
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$ lspci -s 03:00 -n 03:00.0 0104: 9005:0285 (rev 09) $ lspci -s 04:00 -n 04:00.0 0104: 9005:0285 (rev 09)
Which is pretty much what I thought... but again, if I go to Adaptec's site, and try to search on AAC, it returns zip.
Haven't read it throughly but what about this
Yep, found that, that's where I read that there's only the proprietary manager, and the only link I found googling is several years old, and points to an i386 rpm. My issues with that are: a) it may be an old version on Adaptec's site, and there may be a preferred, newer one... but I can't find it. b) This is a 64 bit system, and I was hoping for a 64 bit rpm.
mark
m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Tom Bishop wrote:
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$ lspci -s 03:00 -n 03:00.0 0104: 9005:0285 (rev 09) $ lspci -s 04:00 -n 04:00.0 0104: 9005:0285 (rev 09)
Which is pretty much what I thought... but again, if I go to Adaptec's site, and try to search on AAC, it returns zip.
Haven't read it throughly but what about this
Yep, found that, that's where I read that there's only the proprietary manager, and the only link I found googling is several years old, and points to an i386 rpm. My issues with that are: a) it may be an old version on Adaptec's site, and there may be a preferred, newer one... but I can't find it. b) This is a 64 bit system, and I was hoping for a 64 bit rpm.
Following myself up: if I work my way down from that link, to download.adaptec.com, it says it's down for maintenance; if I click on the downloads link at the top right, it takes me to a page that wants the model, and AAC just isn't there. I've also tried searching the site for storman, storage manager, and Adaptec storage manager, and get nothing at all.
And I'm sure it's long out of warranty, so they won't even let me contact them.
mark, getting very frustrated with Adaptec
On 6/13/2013 12:26 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
$ lspci -s 03:00 -n 03:00.0 0104: 9005:0285 (rev 09)
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/scsi/aacraid.txt
looks to be the Adaptec 2000 family, like 2200S and variations. the AAC driver should be built into pretty much every linux kernel since eons ago.
John R Pierce wrote:
On 6/13/2013 12:26 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
$ lspci -s 03:00 -n 03:00.0 0104: 9005:0285 (rev 09)
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/scsi/aacraid.txt
looks to be the Adaptec 2000 family, like 2200S and variations. the AAC driver should be built into pretty much every linux kernel since eons ago.
Right - I think the driver's there, I can access the drives (well, mostly - I had one fail while I was trying to copy stuff onto it, and now there's not even a /dev/sdb; also, I created a partition on /dev/sdc, but there was a time or two while I got hung tasks for a bunch of minutes, with rsync just sitting there). So I'd like to find the manager, and see if there's some weird settings....
mark
On 6/13/2013 12:48 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
John R Pierce wrote:
On 6/13/2013 12:26 PM,m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
$ lspci -s 03:00 -n 03:00.0 0104: 9005:0285 (rev 09)
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/scsi/aacraid.txt
looks to be the Adaptec 2000 family, like 2200S and variations. the AAC driver should be built into pretty much every linux kernel since eons ago.
Right - I think the driver's there, I can access the drives (well, mostly
- I had one fail while I was trying to copy stuff onto it, and now there's
not even a /dev/sdb; also, I created a partition on /dev/sdc, but there was a time or two while I got hung tasks for a bunch of minutes, with rsync just sitting there). So I'd like to find the manager, and see if there's some weird settings....
that appears to be a rather old family of parallel SCSI raid cards, and Adaptec doesn't seem to support anything newer than RHEL 5 on them ... you need either aaccli or arcconf or their GUI java-based ASM. users manual here, http://updates.aslab.com/doc/disk-controller/aacraid_guide.pdf
there are newer versions of arcconf for newer cards, but they don't say they support the older cards, for instance http://www.adaptec.com/en-us/speed/raid/storage_manager/arcconf_v1_1_20324_z...
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