On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 04:33:58PM +0100, Dick Marinus wrote: > I'd like to migrate to Linux 2.6, but my root partition is on a pdc raid > device. I've created an initrd (with dmraid) and it seems to detect the > array, though invalid :-( > > When the linuxrc starts dmraid -ay I'm getting the following errors: > ERROR: keeping degraded mirror set "pdc_jjajccdd" > ERROR: no mapping possible for RAID set pdc_jjajccdd > > From linux 2.4 dmraid -r reports: > /dev/hdg: pdc, "pdc_jjajccdd", mirror, broken, 159179687 sectors, data@ 0 > /dev/hde: pdc, "pdc_jjajccdd", mirror, broken, 159179687 sectors, data@ 0 > (the raid set is mounted at this moment) This looks like bit 8 set in raid.status of the Promise metadata (see dmraid -n output), which is used to indicate a broken mirror in dmraid. What does your Promise BIOS tell about the array status ? Can you send me the metadata (dmraid -rD;tar jcvf pdc-Dick_Marinus.tar.bz2 *.dat *.offset) please ? > > Any ideas? Thanks in advance! > > Greetings, > Dick Marinus > _______________________________________________ > > Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list -- Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heinz Mauelshagen Red Hat GmbH Consulting Development Engineer Am Sonnenhang 11 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@xxxxxxxxxx +49 2626 141200 FAX 924446 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
