Adaptec device not discovered correctly during install (wrong GID)

[Carsten Aulbert]

Hi all,

I'm currently troubleshooting why one of our boxes refuses to install correctly (FAI version 
is the one from Lenny, if I've overlooked the bugfix since then, please let me know).

This controller

03:00.0 RAID bus controller: Adaptec AAC-RAID (rev 09)
        Subsystem: Adaptec 5405                       
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr+ Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- 
        Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes                                                                
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 30                                                                    
        Region 0: Memory at fac00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2M]                                    
        Expansion ROM at fab80000 [disabled] [size=512K]                                                     
        Capabilities: [98] Power Management version 2                                                        
                Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)                   
                Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-                                                  
        Capabilities: [a0] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/1 Enable-                      
                Address: 0000000000000000  Data: 0000                                                        
        Capabilities: [d0] Express (v1) Endpoint, MSI 00                                                     
                DevCap: MaxPayload 512 bytes, PhantFunc 0, Latency L0s unlimited, L1 <1us                    
                        ExtTag- AttnBtn- AttnInd- PwrInd- RBE+ FLReset-                                      
                DevCtl: Report errors: Correctable- Non-Fatal- Fatal- Unsupported-                           
                        RlxdOrd+ ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop+                                         
                        MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 512 bytes                                           
                DevSta: CorrErr+ UncorrErr- FatalErr- UnsuppReq+ AuxPwr- TransPend-                          
                LnkCap: Port #0, Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x8, ASPM L0s, Latency L0 <128ns, L1 unlimited          
                        ClockPM- Suprise- LLActRep- BwNot-                                                   
                LnkCtl: ASPM Disabled; RCB 64 bytes Disabled- Retrain- CommClk-                              
                        ExtSynch- ClockPM- AutWidDis- BWInt- AutBWInt-                                       
                LnkSta: Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x8, TrErr- Train- SlotClk+ DLActive- BWMgmt- ABWMgmt-           
        Capabilities: [90] Vital Product Data <?>                                                            
        Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting <?>                                                     
        Kernel driver in use: aacraid                                                                        
        Kernel modules: aacraid                                        

is recognized and the module seems to work, as I can run parted against it and partition
the device manually.

FAI fails to populate diskinfo properly:

The following steps happen:

egrep ' etherd/e[[:digit:]]+\.[[:digit:]]+\b| i2o/hd.\b| cciss/c.d.\b| ida/c.d.\b| rd/c.d.\b| hd.\b| sd[a-z]{1,2}\b|/disc\b| vd.\b' /proc/partitions
   8        0 1952446464 sda

Good so far, but a stat here shows the problem
titan3:/usr/lib/fai# stat /dev/sda
  File: `/dev/sda'
  Size: 0               Blocks: 0          IO Block: 4096   block special file
Device: dh/13d  Inode: 9237        Links: 1     Device type: 8,0
Access: (0660/brw-rw----)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (   25/  floppy)
Access: 2009-12-10 08:25:45.373401598 +0000
Modify: 2009-12-10 08:25:45.516631289 +0000
Change: 2009-12-10 08:25:45.516631289 +0000

Why on Earth should the GID be floppy and not disk? Any idea?

Cheers

Carsten