On 6/13/2013 12:48 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > John R Pierce wrote: >> >On 6/13/2013 12:26 PM,m.roth at 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_zip.htm -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast