Re: Please help - adaptec 2820sa not ... RESOLVED

2006-06-20 Thread Eric Anderson
Scott Long wrote: Eric Anderson wrote: Ensel Sharon wrote: On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, Jahilliya wrote: Ok, aac is in the dmesg. I can see both 2820sa cards in the dmesg, and I see no errors, etc. - there are just no drives listed in dmesg. My setup is 8 500 Gb drives in a single raid-6 array,

Re: Please help - adaptec 2820sa not ... RESOLVED

2006-06-19 Thread Charles Swiger
On Jun 18, 2006, at 10:44 PM, Ensel Sharon wrote: Let's say I have 8 disks. Let's say I require raid6. You require RAID-6 because...? If you want more fault tolerance or better performance, RAID-10 makes a lot more sense to me than RAID-6, but YMMV. If I make one array, I lose 25% to

Re: Please help - adaptec 2820sa not ... RESOLVED

2006-06-19 Thread Scott Long
Eric Anderson wrote: Ensel Sharon wrote: On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, Jahilliya wrote: Ok, aac is in the dmesg. I can see both 2820sa cards in the dmesg, and I see no errors, etc. - there are just no drives listed in dmesg. My setup is 8 500 Gb drives in a single raid-6 array, size ~2.8TB. Any

Re: Please help - adaptec 2820sa not ... RESOLVED

2006-06-18 Thread Ensel Sharon
On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, Jahilliya wrote: Ok, aac is in the dmesg. I can see both 2820sa cards in the dmesg, and I see no errors, etc. - there are just no drives listed in dmesg. My setup is 8 500 Gb drives in a single raid-6 array, size ~2.8TB. Any problems with that ? Perhaps

Re: Please help - adaptec 2820sa not ... RESOLVED

2006-06-18 Thread Eric Anderson
Ensel Sharon wrote: On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, Jahilliya wrote: Ok, aac is in the dmesg. I can see both 2820sa cards in the dmesg, and I see no errors, etc. - there are just no drives listed in dmesg. My setup is 8 500 Gb drives in a single raid-6 array, size ~2.8TB. Any problems with that ?

Re: Please help - adaptec 2820sa not ... RESOLVED

2006-06-18 Thread Ensel Sharon
On Sun, 18 Jun 2006, Eric Anderson wrote: 6.1 sysinstall does in fact see both 2820sa controllers, and when I put in a single 160GB sata drive, it does see that single drive and I can install onto it, etc. Sysinstall does _not_ see my 2.7TB raid6 array. I suspect that if it were

Re: Please help - adaptec 2820sa not ... RESOLVED

2006-06-18 Thread Eric Anderson
Ensel Sharon wrote: On Sun, 18 Jun 2006, Eric Anderson wrote: 6.1 sysinstall does in fact see both 2820sa controllers, and when I put in a single 160GB sata drive, it does see that single drive and I can install onto it, etc. Sysinstall does _not_ see my 2.7TB raid6 array. I suspect that if