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List:       evms-devel
Subject:    Re: [Evms-devel] Evms and Vmware
From:       Mike Tran <mhtran () us ! ibm ! com>
Date:       2005-02-11 18:00:28
Message-ID: 1108144828.5896.1.camel () dyn9419587 ! austin ! ibm ! com
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On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 11:21, Kevin Corry wrote:
> Hi Susmitha,
> 
> On Thursday 10 February 2005 10:58 pm, susmitha wrote:
> > When we run Evms in Vmware it is not detecting the empty hard disk with
> > no partitions but creation of one partition with fdisk or any other
> > utility makes Evms detect the hard disk.
> >
> > What could be problem??
> > Doesn't Evms work properly with Vmware?
> > But all other partition utilities does.
> 
> As Mike mentioned, he's seen a similar problem with getting EVMS to detect his 
> USB disk. However, we've tracked that down to actually being a problem with 
> the SCSI disk driver module not getting loaded when he plugs the USB disk in. 
> But running some tool (like fdisk) that attempts to access that disk forces 
> the SCSI module to be loaded. If he manually modprobes the SCSI module after 
> plugging in the USB disk, the disk then appears in sysfs, and EVMS will see 
> it.
> 
> So in your situation, the first thing I would check is that the driver module 
> for your disk is loaded before you try to run EVMS. If this is a SCSI disk, 
> run "lsmod" and look for "sd_mod". If it's an IDE disk, look for "ide_disk". 
> If those are not loaded, run "modprobe sd_mode" or "modprobe ide_disk". Then 
> check /sys/block/ and see if the disk appears there. If it does, then EVMS 
> should see it.

If this is the case, EVMS Local Disk Manager should try load the
required modules if necessary.

--
Regards,
Mike T.




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