[CentOS] Rosewill RSV-S8 Storage Enclosure Support

[Daniel_Curry at Dell.com]

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 at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at 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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