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Syba PEX-40008 attached disks+HBA not showing in Settings\Disks

Added by Jon B about 1 year ago

Hi all,

Super newbie here, just learned about Nexenta recently. I'm running 3.1.1-6829 in an ESXi 5.0U1 environment. I'm giving the NexentaStor VM direct access to a Syba PEX-40008 via passthrough (IOMMU on a Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3). I've confirmed that if I assign the hba to a Windows machine the disks show up... but I'm lost when it comes to Nexenta.

I've gotten as far as Settings > Disks > Refresh... > Rescan all HBAs and refresh device links

or from the console typing SHOW ALL and noticing the last line is this...

03:00.0 SATA controller: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3124 PCI-X Serial ATA Controller (rev 02)

From here I don't have the slightest but I'm hitting the docs to see if I can find any clues. I figured I'd post to the 'newbie' forum while I'm digging.

Edit at 07:06 6/2/2012:

I saw this recent post below

"f you login as root to nexentastor, can you see if format sees the drive?

"#format"

If it doesn't you can run

"#devfsadm -C""

Neither of the two commands return anything. When I type "#format" or "#devfsadm -C" all I get is a blank line.


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RE: Syba PEX-40008 attached disks+HBA not showing in Settings\Disks - Added by Jon B about 1 year ago

Didn't realize I had to be in !bash to issue the format command. That being said, drives are still not showing, but the HBA shows under show all. I also updated to 3.1.3 last night, so I am on the most current version.

03:00.0 SATA controller: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3124 PCI-X Serial ATA Controller (rev 02)
nmc@19eighty-nstor:/$ !bash

root@19eighty-nstor:/volumes# format
Searching for disks...done
AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
0. c1t0d0 <DEFAULT cyl 2607 alt 2 hd 255 sec 63>
/pci@0,0/pci15ad,1976@10/sd@0,0