[afnog] Cannot see SAS drives via adapter

[Shepherd Magumo]

As additional info, If i do dmesg I get the results below, and I have 4 SAS
300GB Seagate drives that I want to see from CentOS.

[root at proxy ~]# dmesg | grep -i "seagate"
  Vendor: SEAGATE   Model: ST3300657SS       Rev: 0006
  Vendor: SEAGATE   Model: ST3300657SS       Rev: 0006
  Vendor: SEAGATE   Model: ST3300657SS       Rev: 0006
  Vendor: SEAGATE   Model: ST3300657SS       Rev: 0006
[root at proxy ~]#

*Shepherd*

On 1 June 2011 12:40, Shepherd Magumo <shepherd at snowball.co.za> wrote:

> Good day,
>
> I am having problems seeing SAS drives using Supermicro AOC-SAS2LP-H8IR
> adapter. The operation system is CentOS 5.6 64bit version.
>
> The operation system is installed on a SATA drive and the motherboard is an
> Intel Board "Classic Series" "Rockfish" G43 - Socket LGA775. From the OS I
> cannot see the drives. BIOS does see the PCI card and it ends there.
>
> If I run lspci with grep "sas" I get:
>
> [root at proxy ~]#
> [root at proxy ~]# lspci | grep -i "sas"
> 01:00.0 RAID bus controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic LSI MegaSAS 9260
> (rev 04)
> [root at proxy ~]#
>
> Any ideas to get the drives working most welcome.
>
> *Shepherd Magumo *
> Snowball Technical
>
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