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From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
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Subject: Re: /dev/da* getting /dev/pass* instead
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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, ...