On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 06:53:14PM +0100, Dick Marinus wrote:
> > 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.
> Yes, I came to the same conclusion, I've hacked the source to
> ((pdc)->raid.status & 0x00)
> so it's always 0 :)
:)
Anyone out there to give a hand about status code definitions
to drill this one down ?
> After this dmraid correctly detected it.
>
> > What does your Promise BIOS tell about the array status ?
> It tells me it's functional, and pdcraid from 2.4 is also working fine
>
> Though...
>
> After a initrd nightmare I've got a /dev/mapper/pdc_jjajccdd and partitions,
> but only the first three partitions mounted fine. I couldn't mount the last
> partition :-(
Flaw in lib/format/partition/dos.c.
Maybe you can drill this down and come up with a fix ?
>
> During the initialisation from dmraid the kernel complained about an incorrect
> size, it looked like the last block device was zero sized.
>
> While hacking dmraid's code I was really amazed about the clean code! Keep up
> the good work :-)
Thanks,
Heinz
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