I'm running Gentoo on a Dell PowerEdge 2550, with a PowerVault 650F connected by fiber to a qlogic card. Linux detects the card, and even sees all the drives just fine. However, I can't access the drives.
dmesg shows each drive being detected, though it gives an error about using 520 bytes sectors rather than 512. Devices are created, both sd and sg, for all the drives. However, if I try to access those devices using head or fdisk, it fails. fdisk /dev/sda will immediately fail, saying it can't read the device. head -c10 /dev/sg0 will just hang till I kill it. fdisk -l doesn't list those devices, nor are they in /proc/partitions. Apparently, there's supposed to be a qla2xxx directory in /proc/scsi, but I don't have one. Any thoughts as to how I can get access to these drives? Is it the formatting? If so, can I get access without reformatting? Or might it be a configuration option? I just booted up linux, with the qlogic firmware in /lib/firmware, but did no other configuration, since I don't know how to deal with this type of device. I just need to be able to write to the raw devices. So far, Google hasn't helped me. Derek /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
