Hi All,

Anybody have a thought on this?  Having this issue isn't the end of
the world, as my software raid array simply rebuilds after every
reboot ;)

Hopefully once OMSA for RHEL6 comes out, I can try updating everything
and see if that helps.

thanks,
  daryl

On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 5:58 PM, Daryl Herzmann <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have been happily using a PE 2950 for a while now and decided to
> swap out its front 6 3.5" SATA drives for Seagate 2 TB Barracuda XT's.
>  Well, I can't seem to get the controller card to recognize the drive
> in "bay 1" (second drive).  The strange part is that once RHEL6 boots,
> about a minute after boot, the drive magically appears !?!?
>
> Dec  3 17:50:13 xxx kernel: mptsas: ioc0: attaching sata device:
> fw_channel 0, fw_id 1, phy 1, sas_addr 0x1221000001000000
> Dec  3 17:50:13 xxx kernel: scsi 0:0:5:0: Direct-Access     ATA
> ST32000641AS     CC13 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
> Dec  3 17:50:13 xxx kernel: sd 0:0:5:0: Attached scsi generic sg6 type 0
> Dec  3 17:50:13 xxx kernel: sd 0:0:5:0: [sdf] 3907029168 512-byte
> logical blocks: (2.00 TB/1.81 TiB)
> Dec  3 17:50:13 xxx kernel: sd 0:0:5:0: [sdf] Write Protect is off
> Dec  3 17:50:13 xxx kernel: sd 0:0:5:0: [sdf] Write cache: enabled,
> read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
> Dec  3 17:50:13 xxx kernel: sdf: sdf1
> Dec  3 17:50:13 xxx kernel: sd 0:0:5:0: [sdf] Attached SCSI disk
>
> Of course, this causes trouble when I attempt to have that drive in a RAID5 :)
>
> Anyway, I've tried moving drives around, etc. No luck.  The controller
> will recognize smaller sized drives though, including a 1 TB one.  I
> recently ran OMSA update_firmware, so I believe I am up to date.
>
> Any ideas what would be causing this?
>
> thanks!
>  daryl
>

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