[CentOS] Rosewill RSV-S8 Storage Enclosure Support

Mon May 4 15:32:58 UTC 2009
Ruslan Sivak <russ at vshift.com>

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