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 _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos