On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 12:16:00AM +0100, Beatrix Kiddo wrote:
> >Hrm, are you using dmraid and can provide further info ?
> >
> >"dmraid -V", "dmraid -r", "dmraid -ccc -s" are a good start to
> >see, if this is a principle issue or a known RAID set grouping logic
> >flaw.
>
>
> Here's what I got:
>
> # dmraid -V
> dmraid version: 1.0.0-rc5f (2004.11.24)
> dmraid library version: 1.0.0-rc5f (2004.11.24)
> device-mapper version: 4.3.0
>
> # dmraid -r
> /dev/hdc: pdc, "pdc_eccbhghhbh", striped, ok, 312581632 sectors, data@ 0
So only 1 out of 3 drives discovered.
And this is the one which doesn't need Promise metadata on it at all.
The other 2 the OS fails to access so far should have Promise metadata though.
>
> # dmraid -ccc -s
> pdc_eccbhghhbh:312581632:128:striped:ok:0:1:0
> /dev/hdc:pdc:pdc_eccbhghhbh:striped:ok:312581632:0
Interesting:
a flaw in dmraid status settings it seems. That shouldn't say "ok",
unless your metadata raid.total_disks member contains 1 (see "dmraid -n"),
which is not to be expected :(
BTW: in case you want to get rid of the Promise metadata on hdc,
run "dmraid -rE". Send the output (*.dat and *.offset files
created in working directory) to me, please.
>
>
>
> This is my hdc:
>
> Disk /dev/hdc: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hdc1 1 17994 144536773+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
> /dev/hdc2 17995 19457 11751547+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
> /dev/hdc5 17995 19269 10241406 83 Linux
> /dev/hdc6 19270 19457 1510078+ 82 Linux swap /
> Solaris
>
>
> It is connect to the onboard standard IDE controller provided on my
> board, according to
> the user's manual it's a via chip.
>
> I've got two 120 gb drives connected to the onboard promise 20378 chip,
> but they aren't
> recognized*. hde,hdf,hdg,hdh are not existent. modprobe sata_promise and
> sata_via didn't
> work.
Hrm, sata_promise is the correct SATA driver for this chip but
I'ld expect /dev/sd namespace for it.
Please check the kernel log.
First you need to get access to the 2 drives on Linux, then we can
check if there's Promise metadata (presumaby you've set thme up using
the Promise BIOS) on them.
>
> I'm using kernel 2.6.10.
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> Achim
> *
>
>
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