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Title: Can't get to my other disks on the server...
Post by: Cyruz on August 29, 2005, 10:54:07 PM

Hello. After installing sme server 6.0.1 I cannot access / find my other 4 harddisks in the box. They sits on a raid card but raid function is not enabled. the card only functions as an disk controller.
I find this a little strange since Slackware found them all under installation. I have now replaced Slack with sme and I like sme so I really want this to work. Can anyone help me please ??

Title: Can't get to my other disks on the server...
Post by: meanpenguin on August 30, 2005, 07:32:37 PM

1.  get on to the console or ssh session
2.  type "df"
3.  note the device types that are mounted
    /dev/sda3
       or
    /dev/hda3

     The number does not matter, the sda or hda does

4.  type "dmesg"
5.  look for a lines that look like this

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RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta3-.2.4
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ICH2: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:1f.1
ICH2: chipset revision 1
ICH2: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0xb800-0xb807, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:DMA
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0xb808-0xb80f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
hdb: Pioneer DVD-ROM ATAPIModel DVD-105S 012, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide


and


SCSI device sda: 240119680 512-byte hdwr sectors (122941 MB)
Partition check:
 sda: sda1 sda2 sda3




5.  See what device names are recognized
    mine has "sda"

    there could be "sda", "sdb", "sdc" ...
    or "hda", "hdb", "hdc" ...

6.  Each of the sda/hda 's are the hd's
7.  google for info on how to mount the hd to the file system.

    mkdir /mnt/temp
    mount -t (file system type) /dev/sdc1 /mnt/temp


Just a note:  
1.  If you read the installation I believe SME installation deletes all the data on all the drives that are installed.  

2.  Also, if it finds more than one drive, SME install may have used software RAID on those drives.
( cat /proc/mdstat should return something like this if software raid is not used

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cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities :
read_ahead not set
unused devices: <none>


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Title: Can't get to my other disks on the server...
Post by: ldkeen on August 30, 2005, 08:21:09 PM

Sounds to me like you need to install the driver for your raid card. What type of raid card is it??
Lloyd