Failed Disk on PE4400

[Olivier Berger]

Le mardi 07 août 2007 à 14:05 -0400, Aaron Smith a écrit :

> 3.)     They’re trying to get afacli running on the downed machine by
> using a rescue CD (Super Rescue, which loads a somewhat stripped down
> version of redhat linux) but when they try “open afa0” it says “No
> such controller”.  I think it might just be missing a device file or
> some such.  I think it’s possible to create that manuall, but am
> uncertain of the procedure.

FWIW, the following should work :

# grep aac /proc/devices

this gives a number (XXX), then :

# cd /dev; mknod afa0 c XXX 0

Courtesy
http://www.shell-tips.com/2006/10/02/raid-5-monitoring-on-dell-power-edge-2650-with-afacli/#comment-750

Hope this helps.
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