partition raid0 for 2nd VD

System Administrator admn.matrix at gmail.com
Sun Sep 21 16:28:27 CDT 2008 

Hello there,

We had a RAID0 setup on PE2900 with PERC5/i card, 3 HDs under the 
first Virtual disk array. Recently, we purchased addtional 5 HDs to create 
the second virtual disk array. I am able to use Dell OMSA utility to 
create a new virtual disk and do fast initialization afterwards.

My question is to partition the new raid0 and format the disks in order to 
mount it. The new virtual disk is slightly above 1TB, (250Gx5HDs), and we 
are using Debian/Ubunntu OS. I would much appreicate if anyone could help 
me on this issue. I search around for a while but unfortunately find no 
solution. I am really new to the Linux and server world.

Please also find the part of dmesg output in the following. Thanks for 
your help in advance!

Sep 21 15:16:34 odyssey kernel: [53311312.960000]   Vendor: ATA 
Model: WDC WD2500YS-01S  Rev: 6C06
Sep 21 15:16:34 odyssey kernel: [53311312.960000]   Type:   Direct-Access 
ANSI SCSI revision: 05
Sep 21 15:16:34 odyssey kernel: [53311312.960000] SCSI device sdh: 
490234752 512-byte hdwr sectors (251000 MB)
Sep 21 15:16:34 odyssey kernel: [53311312.960000] SCSI device sdh: drive 
cache: write back
Sep 21 15:16:34 odyssey kernel: [53311312.960000] SCSI device sdh: 
490234752 512-byte hdwr sectors (251000 MB)
Sep 21 15:16:34 odyssey kernel: [53311312.960000] SCSI device sdh: drive 
cache: write back
Sep 21 15:16:34 odyssey kernel: [53311312.960000]  sdh: unknown partition 
table
Sep 21 15:16:34 odyssey kernel: [53311312.990000] sd 0:0:3:0: Attached 
scsi disk sdh
Sep 21 15:16:34 odyssey kernel: [53311312.990000] sd 0:0:3:0: Attached 
scsi generic sg8 type 0
Sep 21 15:16:34 odyssey kernel: [53311312.990000]   Vendor: ATA 
Model: WDC WD2500YS-01S  Rev: 6C06
Sep 21 15:16:34 odyssey kernel: [53311312.990000]   Type:   Direct-Access 
ANSI SCSI revision: 05
Sep 21 15:16:34 odyssey kernel: [53311312.990000] SCSI device sdi: 
490234752 512-byte hdwr sectors (251000 MB)
Sep 21 15:16:34 odyssey kernel: [53311312.990000] SCSI device sdi: drive 
cache: write back
Sep 21 15:16:34 odyssey kernel: [53311312.990000] SCSI device sdi: 
490234752 512-byte hdwr sectors (251000 MB)
Sep 21 15:16:34 odyssey kernel: [53311312.990000] SCSI device sdi: drive 
cache: write back
Sep 21 15:16:34 odyssey kernel: [53311312.990000]  sdi: unknown partition 
table
Sep 21 15:16:34 odyssey kernel: [53311313.010000] sd 0:0:4:0: Attached 
scsi disk sdi
Sep 21 15:16:34 odyssey kernel: [53311313.010000] sd 0:0:4:0: Attached 
scsi generic sg9 type 0
Sep 21 15:16:34 odyssey kernel: [53311313.020000]   Vendor: ATA 
Model: WDC WD2500YS-01S  Rev: 6C06
Sep 21 15:16:34 odyssey kernel: [53311313.020000]   Type:   Direct-Access 
ANSI SCSI revision: 05
Sep 21 15:16:34 odyssey kernel: [53311313.020000] SCSI device sdj: 
490234752 512-byte hdwr sectors (251000 MB)
Sep 21 15:16:34 odyssey kernel: [53311313.020000] SCSI device sdj: drive 
cache: write back
Sep 21 15:16:34 odyssey kernel: [53311313.020000] SCSI device sdj: 
490234752 512-byte hdwr sectors (251000 MB)
Sep 21 15:16:34 odyssey kernel: [53311313.020000] SCSI device sdj: drive 
cache: write back
Sep 21 15:16:34 odyssey kernel: [53311313.020000]  sdj: unknown partition 
table
Sep 21 15:16:34 odyssey kernel: [53311313.040000] sd 0:0:5:0: Attached 
scsi disk sdj
Sep 21 15:16:34 odyssey kernel: [53311313.040000] sd 0:0:5:0: Attached 
scsi generic sg10 type 0
Sep 21 15:16:34 odyssey kernel: [53311313.050000]   Vendor: ATA 
Model: WDC WD2500YS-01S  Rev: 6C06
Sep 21 15:16:34 odyssey kernel: [53311313.050000]   Type:   Direct-Access 
ANSI SCSI revision: 05
Sep 21 15:16:34 odyssey kernel: [53311313.050000] SCSI device sdk: 
490234752 512-byte hdwr sectors (251000 MB)
Sep 21 15:16:34 odyssey kernel: [53311313.050000] SCSI device sdk: drive 
cache: write back
Sep 21 15:16:34 odyssey kernel: [53311313.050000] SCSI device sdk: 
490234752 512-byte hdwr sectors (251000 MB)
Sep 21 15:16:34 odyssey kernel: [53311313.050000] SCSI device sdk: drive 
cache: write back
Sep 21 15:16:34 odyssey kernel: [53311313.050000]  sdk: unknown partition 
table
Sep 21 15:16:34 odyssey kernel: [53311313.080000] sd 0:0:6:0: Attached 
scsi disk sdk
Sep 21 15:16:34 odyssey kernel: [53311313.080000] sd 0:0:6:0: Attached 
scsi generic sg11 type 0
Sep 21 15:16:34 odyssey kernel: [53311313.080000]   Vendor: ATA 
Model: WDC WD2500YS-01S  Rev: 6C06
Sep 21 15:16:34 odyssey kernel: [53311313.080000]   Type:   Direct-Access 
ANSI SCSI revision: 05
Sep 21 15:16:34 odyssey kernel: [53311313.080000] SCSI device sdl: 
490234752 512-byte hdwr sectors (251000 MB)
Sep 21 15:16:34 odyssey kernel: [53311313.080000] SCSI device sdl: drive 
cache: write back
Sep 21 15:16:34 odyssey kernel: [53311313.080000] SCSI device sdl: 
490234752 512-byte hdwr sectors (251000 MB)
Sep 21 15:16:34 odyssey kernel: [53311313.080000] SCSI device sdl: drive 
cache: write back
Sep 21 15:16:34 odyssey kernel: [53311313.080000]  sdl: unknown partition 
table
Sep 21 15:16:34 odyssey kernel: [53311313.100000] sd 0:0:7:0: Attached 
scsi disk sdl
Sep 21 15:16:34 odyssey kernel: [53311313.100000] sd 0:0:7:0: Attached 
scsi generic sg12 type 0
Sep 21 15:16:34 odyssey kernel: [53311313.110000]   Vendor: DELL 
Model: PERC 5/i          Rev: 1.03
Sep 21 15:16:34 odyssey kernel: [53311313.110000]   Type:   Direct-Access 
ANSI SCSI revision: 05
Sep 21 15:16:34 odyssey kernel: [53311313.110000] SCSI device sdm: 
2445803520 512-byte hdwr sectors (1252251 MB)
Sep 21 15:16:34 odyssey kernel: [53311313.110000] SCSI device sdm: drive 
cache: write through
Sep 21 15:16:34 odyssey kernel: [53311313.110000] SCSI device sdm: 
2445803520 512-byte hdwr sectors (1252251 MB)
Sep 21 15:16:34 odyssey kernel: [53311313.110000] SCSI device sdm: drive 
cache: write through
Sep 21 15:16:34 odyssey kernel: [53311313.110000]  sdm: unknown partition 
table
Sep 21 15:16:34 odyssey kernel: [53311313.110000] sd 0:2:1:0: Attached 
scsi disk sdm
Sep 21 15:16:34 odyssey kernel: [53311313.110000] sd 0:2:1:0: Attached 
scsi generic sg13 type 0

PS. the old raid 0 is under /dev/sdd, including the 3 HDs under /dev/sda,
/dev/sdb, /dev/sdc, respectively. And we have 3 external HDs for backup.

df outputs:

Filesystem    Type    Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdd1     ext3    680G  507G  139G  79% /
varrun       tmpfs    8.0G   96K  8.0G   1% /var/run
varlock      tmpfs    8.0G  4.0K  8.0G   1% /var/lock
udev         tmpfs    8.0G  140K  8.0G   1% /dev
devshm       tmpfs    8.0G     0  8.0G   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sde1     ext3    459G  197G  239G  46% /media/usb500g
/dev/sdf1     ext3    917G  489G  382G  57% /media/usb1t_a
/dev/sdg1     ext3    917G  496G  376G  57% /media/usb1t_b

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