Re: IBM ServeRAID-3L reports drives to have 0GB capacity
- From: "The Moojit" <moojit@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2005 19:14:51 GMT
The drives are sitting behind a RAID controller. Typically, a RAID
controller will not expose the physical devices to the operating system.
Instead you have to use the manufacturer's software to configure LUNs on the
RAID controller which will then be presented to the o/s's storage subsystem.
I'm not familiar with this RAID controller but they should provide some type
of PCI Option ROM that ships with the card to configure LUNs or a host based
application that does the same. You may also be able to configure the RAID
controller to be a normal SCSI initiator, in this case the physical devices
behind the controller should appear in the O/S and you should be able to use
Disk Manager for example to configure BASIC or Dynamic LUNs. You this
utility and provide a screenshot to let us know what storage your system is
seeing.
SCSI Utility For Windows
Download -> http://www.moojit.net/Progs/Scsiutil/scsidemo.zip
Screenshot -> http://www.moojit.net/Images/Website/pic1.jpg
Help -> http://www.moojit.net/Networking/scsiwin.shtml
Link ->
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The Moojit
<robwokatsch@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> System Type: PC
> MB: ASUS A7N8X Deluxe (Phoenix-Award v6.00PG Rev 1008)
> OS: XP
> Adapter: IBM ServeRAID-3L Ultra2
> Cable: 30" 4 device U160 LVD/SE with Amphenol G5925733 terminator at
> the end
> terminator power from last drive
> Drives: 2x Hitachi DK31AH-36LW Ultra2 36GB
> connected closest to the adapter, IDs set to 1&2
> New configuration
>
> Adapter has been flashed with most recent BIOS(7.10.18),
> firmware(6.10.24), and reset to factory defaults.
>
> Booted with configuration disc and configuration program starts up just
> fine. Both drives are 'seen' but listed as having 0GB capacity and in
> standby state. I can't ready, partition or format either of them.
> Same when booting to DOS, the drives are 'seen' while booting, but
> fdisk exits with 'no fixed drives detected'.
>
> I've double-checked all connections, reseated the adapter, forced SE
> mode, tried the drives one at a time on different connectors, with and
> without drives providing term pwr, but results are always the same.
>
> I don't have any other SCSI components I can mix-and-match with to
> isolate bad hardware. But the adapter POSTs and the drives are 'seen',
> even identified as Hitachi's. So I'm assuming(hoping) this is just a
> configuration/compatablity problem.
>
> One other thing, my system won't boot with both my SATA Raptor and the
> ServeRAID card both installed, even when no drives are attached. It
> just hangs after POSTing. I have to take the Raptor out just to get it
> to boot to DOS with the card in...? And disabling the SATA controller
> altogether doesn't solve the above problem, just the boot conflict.
>
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