Dear Heinz, Thank you very much for this update. My Highpoint (hpt37x) with raid 1, 1 drive per channel, works now. I dont get the "raid is broken" message anymore. I use the amd64 port of Debian, with kernel 2.6.10. thanks Roland Am Dienstag, 1. März 2005 20:11 schrieb Heinz Mauelshagen: > *** Announcement: dmraid 1.0.0.rc6 *** > > dmraid 1.0.0.rc6 is available at > http://people.redhat.com:/heinzm/sw/dmraid/ in source tarball, > source rpm and i386 rpms (shared, static and dietlibc). > > This release introduces support for VIA Software RAID. > > dmraid (Device-Mapper Raid tool) discovers, [de]activates and displays > properties of software RAID sets (i.e. ATARAID) and contained DOS > partitions using the device-mapper runtime of the 2.6 kernel. > > The following ATARAID types are supported on Linux 2.6: > > Highpoint HPT37X > Highpoint HPT45X > Intel Software RAID > LSI Logic MegaRAID > NVidia NForce > Promise FastTrack > Silicon Image Medley > VIA Software RAID *** NEW *** > > Please provide insight to support those metadata formats completely. > > Thanks. > > > See files README and CHANGELOG, which come with the source tarball for > prerequisites to run this software, further instructions on installing > and using dmraid! > > CHANGELOG is contained below for your convenience as well. > > > Call for testers: > ----------------- > > I need testers with the above ATARAID types, to check that the mapping > created by this tool is correct (see options "-t -ay") and access to the > ATARAID data is proper. > > In case you have a different ATARAID solution from those listed above, > please feel free to contact me about supporting it in dmraid. > > You can activate your ATARAID sets without danger of overwriting > your metadata, because dmraid accesses it read-only unless you use > option -E together with -r in order to erase ATARAID metadata > (see 'man dmraid')! > > This is a release candidate version so you want to have backups of your > valuable data *and* you want to test accessing your data read-only first in > order to make sure that the mapping is correct before you go for read-write > access. > > > Contacts: > --------- > > The author is reachable at <Mauelshagen@xxxxxxxxxx>. > > For test results, mapping information, discussions, questions, patches, > enhancement requests and the like, please subscribe and mail to > <ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx>. > > -- > > Regards, > Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- > > > CHANGELOG: > --------- > > Changelog from dmraid 1.0.0-rc5f to 1.0.0.rc6 2005.02.28 > > FIXES: > ------ > o sil status() > o _sil_read() used LOG_NOTICE rather than LOG_INFO in order to > avoid messages about valid metadata areas being displayed > during "dmraid -vay". > o isw, sil filed metadata offset on "-r -D" in sectors rather than in > bytes. o isw needed dev_sort() to sort RAID devices in sets correctly. > o pdc metadata format handler name creation. Lead to > wrong RAID set grouping logic in some configurations. > o dos.c: partition table code fixes by Paul Moore > o _free_dev_pointers(): fixed potential OOB error > o hpt37x_check: deal with raid_disks = 1 in mirror sets > o pdc_check: status & 0x80 doesn't always show a failed device; > removed that check for now. Status definitions needed. > o sil addition of RAID sets to global list of sets > o sil spare device memory leak > o group_set(): removal of RAID set in case of error > o hpt37x: handle total_secs > device size > o allow -p with -f > o enhanced error message by checking target type against list of > registered target types > > > FEATURES: > --------- > o VIA metadata format handler > o added RAID10 to lsi metadata format handler > o "dmraid -rD": file device size into {devicename}_{formatname}.size > o "dmraid -tay": pretty print multi-line tables ala "dmsetup table" > o "dmraid -l": display supported RAID levels + manual update > > > MISCELANIOUS: > ------------ > > o more inline comments > o libdmraid_init() now returns lib context > o check_set() enhanced to do RAID set stack unrolling and > to check correct number of devices in sets; saves code in > metadata format handlers > o introduced read_raid_dev() to further reduce metadata format handler code > o optimized parse_table() > o updated dmraid manual > o devmapper.c: check target type registered before trying to load table > record o misc.c: avoid find_percent(). > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= >-=- > > Heinz Mauelshagen Red Hat GmbH > Consulting Development Engineer Am Sonnenhang 11 > 56242 Marienrachdorf > Germany > Mauelshagen@xxxxxxxxxx +49 2626 141200 > FAX 924446 > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= >-=- > > _______________________________________________ > > Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list
