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Shane Meyers
Asked: 2011-06-25 17:45:04 +0800 CST

Disk not available for use under Linux on Sun hardware

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We have a Sun 4140 running Linux (CentOS 5.5). A disk failed in a software RAID-1 array. We powered off the system and added a two new disks to empty slots in the chassis (we couldn't simply replace the failed disk due to some GRUB misconfiguration). Upon booting the system back up, we went to configure the new disks and add them to the array, but it wasn't found under the /dev subsystem.

The disk was found during booting (output of dmesg):

Vendor: HP        Model: EG0146FAWHU       Rev: HPDE
Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 05
Vendor: HP        Model: EG0146FAWHU       Rev: HPDE
Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 05

Output of udevinfo:

[root@host ~]# udevinfo -a -p /sys/bus/scsi/devices/0\:1\:4\:0/

looking at device '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0f.0/0000:04:00.0/host0/target0:1:4/0:1:4:0':
  KERNEL=="0:1:4:0"
  SUBSYSTEM=="scsi"
  SYSFS{dh_state}=="detached"
  SYSFS{ioerr_cnt}=="0x0"
  SYSFS{iodone_cnt}=="0x3"
  SYSFS{iorequest_cnt}=="0x3"
  SYSFS{iocounterbits}=="32"
  SYSFS{timeout}=="60"
  SYSFS{state}=="running"
  SYSFS{rev}=="HPDE"
  SYSFS{model}=="EG0146FAWHU     "
  SYSFS{vendor}=="HP      "
  SYSFS{scsi_level}=="6"
  SYSFS{type}=="0"
  SYSFS{queue_type}=="none"
  SYSFS{queue_depth}=="1"
  SYSFS{device_blocked}=="0"
  SYSFS{level}=="Hidden"

What do we need to do to make the disks be recognized? Any other things that we need to try?

EDIT

Here is the output of /proc/scsi/scsi:

Host: scsi0 Channel: 01 Id: 04 Lun: 00
  Vendor: HP       Model: EG0146FAWHU      Rev: HPDE
  Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI SCSI revision: 05
Host: scsi0 Channel: 01 Id: 05 Lun: 00
  Vendor: HP       Model: EG0146FAWHU      Rev: HPDE
  Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI SCSI revision: 05

Here are all of the drives and partitions found in /dev:

-bash-3.2$ ls -l /dev/sd* /dev/hd*
ls: /dev/hd*: No such file or directory
brw-r----- 1 root disk 8,  0 Jun 22 22:37 /dev/sda
brw-r----- 1 root disk 8,  1 Jun 22 22:37 /dev/sda1
brw-r----- 1 root disk 8,  2 Jun 22 22:37 /dev/sda2
brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 16 Jun 22 22:37 /dev/sdb
brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 17 Jun 22 22:37 /dev/sdb1
brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 18 Jun 22 22:37 /dev/sdb2
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2 Answers

  1. Do you see anything from cat /proc/scsi/scsi? That will show something similar to the dmesg output you listed above. What happens if you run fdisk -l? You should be able to get the drive device names from that.

    Disk /dev/sda: 85.8 GB, 85899345920 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 10443 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
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Disk /dev/sdb: 42.9 GB, 42949672960 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 5221 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
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Disk /dev/sdc: 128.8 GB, 128849018880 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 15665 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
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  2. I believe this server has a hardware raid controller in it (at least all the 4140s I have around do). In a typical configuration, you'd let the raid controller take care of the RAID1, which would be presented to the OS as a single volume. In your configuration, I'm guessing that the two drives are configured on the RAID controller as two RAID0 arrays. To get the third and fourth drives to appear, you'll likely need to go into the RAID bios and configure them as two, single-member RAID0 arrays, which you should be able to see from the OS after a reboot.

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