compaq array controllers

Marc Martinez lastxit+fai at technogeeks.org
Thu Nov 29 22:59:58 CET 2001


greetings, I'm in the process of working out my first basic fai setup
to quickly deploy new servers at the office, and I've run into a
rather major (for my needs) issue:

the Compaq SMART2 raid array controllers have their devices created in
a sub-directory of /dev, and use a naming convention of
"controller # + disk # + partition #" so that the final devices look
like:  /dev/ida/c0d0p1 /dev/ida/c0d0p2 and so on..

this obviously confuses the setup_harddisks script with some of its
regexes, but it also seems that the sfdisk program has no support for
these devices, either..

just wondering if anybody has any quick suggestions to get me rolling
again before I start hacking on the sources.

thanks,
Marc



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