Loading The Driver; Adding A File System, Formatting, And Performing Multi-Disk Configuration; Using The Logical Volume Manager - HP AJ878A - StorageWorks 320 GB Hard Drive User Manual

Loading the driver

To load the driver, please complete the following instructions.
1. Enter the following command to load the driver.
modprobe fio-driver
NOTE:
• If the IO Accelerator firmware is too old, a warning can be seen in the /var/log/mes-
sages file. For information on updating the firmware, see
• If the driver installation is successful, the driver will automatically load at the next system
boot.
2. To ensure that the device is present and attached, enter the following command:
fio-status
An example output which shows that the system sees the device is as follows;
Found 1 ioDrive in this system.
Fusion-io driver version: 1.2.4
fct0
HP StorageWorks 80GB IO Accelerator, Product Number:AJ876A SN:7638
Firmware v17350 'Released'
80 GBytes block device size, 99 GBytes physical device size capacity.
PCI:48:00.0, Slot Number: Unavailable
Vendor:1aed, Device:1003, Sub vendor:103c, Sub device:324d
Internal temperature: avg 37.4 degC, max 47.7 degC
Media status: Healthy. 99.46% blocks good.
Adding a file system, formatting, and performing multi-disk
configuration
If you want to use a standard file system (such as ext3), you can now create and format partitions
using standard disk management utilities. The options are:
• Use the mount command to mount resulting partitions and edit system startup configuration to
automatically mount them, just as you would with any other block device. See the mount docu-
mentation for more information.
• Use mdadm command to add IO Accelerator partitions to a RAID configuration. See the mdadm
documentation for more information.
• Use the lvm command to include IO Accelerator partitions in logical volumes. See the lvm docu-
mentation for more information.

Using the Logical Volume Manager

The Logical Volume Manager (LVM) volume group management application handles mass storage
devices like the IO Accelerator if you add the IO Accelerator as a supported type:
• Locate and edit the /etc/lvm/lvm.conf configuration file.
Attached as 'fioa' (block device)
Upgrading
IO Accelerator for BladeSystem c-Class user guide
firmware.
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