Areca controller on Ubuntu

bucovaina78 · 08-06-2011, 03:55 PM

Ok so I got an areca 1212 controller with 4 2TB discs. It's running in a RAID 5 array but how do I format it and how do I mount it?

I have no idea what /dev/??? to look for.

bucovaina78 · 08-07-2011, 04:00 AM

I solved the problem I did the following:

dmesg | grep -C 4 "Areca"

I didn't know about the -C switch which will print 4 lines before and after the "Areca" match.

Code:

root@ubuntu:/home/ubuntu/Desktop/areca/bin# dmesg | grep -C 4 "Areca"
[    3.342554] e1000e: Copyright(c) 1999 - 2011 Intel Corporation.
[    3.342580] e1000e 0000:00:19.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
[    3.342590] e1000e 0000:00:19.0: setting latency timer to 64
[    3.342686] e1000e 0000:00:19.0: irq 48 for MSI/MSI-X
[    3.349854] Areca RAID Controller0: F/W V1.48 2010-01-04 & Model ARC-1212
[    3.357169] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
[    3.365806] scsi0 : Areca SAS Host Adapter RAID Controller( RAID6 capable)
[    3.365808]  Driver Version 1.20.00.15 2010/08/05
[    3.366127] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Areca    ARC-1212-VOL#000 R001 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[    3.367095] scsi 0:0:16:0: Processor         Areca    RAID controller  R001 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
[    3.367248] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 11718747648 512-byte logical blocks: (5.99 TB/5.45 TiB)
[    3.367307] sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
[    3.367319] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[    3.367321] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: cb 00 00 08
root@ubuntu:/home/ubuntu/Desktop/areca/bin#