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SAS not detected

2011-07-27
2013-04-05
  • OutOfTheBox1

    OutOfTheBox1 - 2011-07-27

    I am trying to clone a system that contains a SAS drive.
    Windows says that the controller is Intel 631xESB/6321ESB/3100 chipset Serial ATA Storage Controller 2680
    Windows says the drive is ST37345SS SCSI Disk Device.
    Clonezilla Live cannot see the device.  When I go into Dev directory, it does see a SDA drive but that is the IDE drive that also exists in the system.  I have tried various versions of Clonezilla including the testing version of Ubuntu, but it still fails to see the drive.  I believe it is a Kernel thing, but I don't think I'm linux smart enough to rebuild the kernel and rebuild Clonezilla.  Can you help?

     
  • OutOfTheBox1

    OutOfTheBox1 - 2011-07-27

    I used the command lspci -tv and see that the controller device is found under linux so I believe it may not be a kernel thing now.  When I check the dev directory, I do see an sg0, and sg1.  If I create a mount directory and type mount /dev/sg0 sg0 it says its not a block device.  Same for sg1.  Any help would be appreciated.

     
  • Steven Shiau

    Steven Shiau - 2011-07-28

    Which version of Clonezilla live did you use?
    If it's not the latest one, how about giving Clonezilla live 1.2.10-2 or 20110727-oneiric a try?
    They come with linux kernel 3.0.0 and might support your hardware.

    Steven.

     
  • OutOfTheBox1

    OutOfTheBox1 - 2012-04-16

    I have tried all of the current versions of Clonezilla.  The most recent that I tried was 20120326-oneiric.  I also tried 1.2.12-37 recently.  I can't seem to get any version of Clonezilla to see the SAS drives.  The motherboard is a SuperMicro X8DA6 and the onboard SAS controller is a LSISAS2008.

    Chris

     
  • Steven Shiau

    Steven Shiau - 2012-04-20

    Is it very new?
    Did you try Clonezilla live 1.2.12-51? It comes with Linux kenrel 3.2.15 and maybe support your SAS.
    If it's still can not see your SAS drives, do you know any version of GNU/Linux supports that?

    Steven.

     
  • OutOfTheBox1

    OutOfTheBox1 - 2012-04-27

    I tried Clonezilla live 1.2.12-51.  It could only see the PATA drive and did not identify any other drives that I could see in the dev folder.  It did correctly identify the SAS controller as Adaptec AIC-9410 based on lspci.  I later used the newest live version of SUSE and I could see and read both drives.  I also used CentOS 6.2 live to identify both of the drives correctly.  CentOS could not read either of the drives because the cd-live version does not support NTFS.  Any ideas?

    Chris

     
  • Steven Shiau

    Steven Shiau - 2012-04-28

    This is weird… If CentOS 6.2 supports that, how come newer kernel does not support it, unless it's a 3-party kernel module provided by CentOS.
    Have you ever tried Clonezilla live 20120426-precise?

    Steven.

     

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