I had just upgraded my server at my house with 2 more hard drives and my older desktop mobo that has 2 SATA plugs (NVIDIA chipset). Now with 7 hard drives I had to move the 4 SATAs on the RocketRAID 1640 out of the case and onto a diff power supply. All partitions are Reiserfs.
OK, so hda is an 80GB IDE drive that is only used for booting the OS (Dapper LTS up-to-date) with hda1 as /boot hda2 as / hda3 as /usr and hda4 as swap. So I added 2 more drives, 1 ATA and 1 SATA. The ATA drive was as slave on IDE#0 so it became hdb as it should. The SATA I plugged into the mobo's SATA was reconized as sda (So I figure if I add 1 more to the other plug it will be sdc). hde, hdg, hdk, and hdi are on the RocketRAID... For some reason they are not mapped to sd(x). I figure that when I upgrade to anythinhg later than Dapper everything will be a sd(x) drive and am not sure how it's going to map out. I will install Gutsy in hdb for testing to find out and post back. I jut think the Rocketraid is a poor choice for this stuff because of 2 BUGS or problems... Namely: I don't need all this storage 'instant and always' so some sort of power saving is in order, but... - hdparm -y /dev/hde (or any drive on the RocketRAID controller) I beleive puts it to sleep, but I can't always wake it back up with an access. I get timeout errors in dmesg. This will hang a reboot or shutdown even. - sudo smartctl -d ata -a /dev/hde (or g,k,i) on RocketRAID drives report nothing. I see the latest smartmontools package supports the RocketRAID controllers with commands such as: $ sudo smartctl -a -d hpt,1/1 /dev/hde So I compiled them and... nope.... still doesn't work.... I will install a Gutsy instance somewhere on hdb and test it out and post back, but what I'm finding is that the RocketRAID may not be the best choice for what I need, namely getting these drives to sleep and not make the electric company happy. I believe I will need to recompile Gutsy's kernel to make all these drives reconizable I may have to just bite the bullet and purchase a different SATA card. I don't need any of this RAID stuff or SATA 2 (3.0Gb/sec) and even the RocketRAID is software RAID anyway. These cheap cards I see all over eBay with the Silicon Image 3114 chipset may work better. I'll post back with my Gutsy experiments. # cat /etc/fstab # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda2 / reiserfs noatime 0 1 /dev/hdb1 /big/hdb1 reiserfs noatime 0 2 /dev/sda1 /big/sda1 reiserfs noatime 0 2 /dev/hde1 /big/hde1 reiserfs noatime 0 2 /dev/hdg1 /big/hdg1 reiserfs noatime 0 2 /dev/hdi1 /big/hdi1 reiserfs noatime 0 2 /dev/hdk1 /big/hdk1 reiserfs noatime 0 2 /dev/hda1 /boot ext2 noatime 0 2 /dev/hda3 /usr reiserfs noatime 0 2 /dev/hda4 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/hdd /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0 # df -ha Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda2 38G 8.2G 30G 22% / proc 0 0 0 - /proc /sys 0 0 0 - /sys varrun 506M 120K 506M 1% /var/run varlock 506M 4.0K 506M 1% /var/lock procbususb 0 0 0 - /proc/bus/usb udev 506M 152K 506M 1% /dev devpts 0 0 0 - /dev/pts devshm 506M 0 506M 0% /dev/shm lrm 506M 18M 488M 4% /lib/modules/2.6.15-29-k7/volatile /dev/hdb1 233G 33M 233G 1% /big/hdb1 /dev/sda1 190G 33M 190G 1% /big/sda1 /dev/hde1 190G 82G 109G 43% /big/hde1 /dev/hdg1 190G 167G 24G 88% /big/hdg1 /dev/hdi1 299G 267G 32G 90% /big/hdi1 /dev/hdk1 299G 130G 169G 44% /big/hdk1 /dev/hda1 449M 9.4M 416M 3% /boot /dev/hda3 37G 2.1G 35G 6% /usr nfsd 0 0 0 - /proc/fs/nfsd -- HPT366 still linked to HPT374 after blacklist https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/159397 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
