Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2015 22:59:21 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: nightrecon@hotmail.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /dev/da* getting /dev/pass* instead Message-ID: <20151105225921.e86e780a.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <n1gi23$k48$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <563B9E0E.6040809@gmail.com> <20151105215904.0c3855fb.freebsd@edvax.de> <n1gi23$k48$1@ger.gmane.org>
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On Thu, 05 Nov 2015 16:34:43 -0500, Michael Powell wrote: > Polytropon wrote: > > [...] > > You can see the the devices being connected to the SCSI bus > > (even if it's not "real SCSI") properly, but the "da" driver > > has not been loaded for them. The reason? Maybe the controller > > you're using, "PROMISE 2U-SAS-12-D2 BP 0107, LSI card" (as > > you wrote) is not configured to represent the devices as > > "normal" hard disks to the operating system? > > I don't know this controller, but I have seen a few lately that in the > firmware/BIOS for the controller you would configure each drive as a RAID 0 > SINGLE. Then they show up as a /dev node the way you'd expect. Yes - it's worth examining the configuration of the controller (firmware settings) to make sure the attached disks are really "relayed 1:1". Depending on the actual hardware, this might involve individual settings, or it's just a "global JBOD switch". :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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