disk attached to builtin- raid controller

Ammad · 02-19-2009, 06:45 AM

hi,

i attached a new disk on RHEL 5.2 on built-in raid-controller. but it do not displays on Linux. i checked it using

Code:

 [root@system root]fdisk -l

whereas its information in /etc/sysconfig/hwconfig is

Code:

class: SATA
bus: PCI
detached: 0
driver: pata_marvell
desc: "Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88SE6145 SATA II PCI-E controller"
vendorId: 11ab
deviceId: 6145
subVendorId: 8086
subDeviceId: 5842
pciType: 1
pcidom:    0
pcibus:  3
pcidev:  0
pcifn:  0

how do i access this .
thanks

eco · 02-20-2009, 12:20 AM

Have you added it to your hardware RAID?
If you have not, you can't just plug in the drive. You need to declare it.

Ammad · 02-20-2009, 05:44 AM

yes, i pluged it raid sata interface, and configured it via Raid menau.

eco · 02-21-2009, 02:46 AM

Hi,

What does dmesg show? You created a new RAID with one disk? Or you added it to the original RAID and then I understand why you can't see a new disk.

Anyone else to help?