Hi Heinz, while I was on research of possible fix of my problem, I saw someone else has it too, but I barely will be able find it again. And one more, let me clarify the issue: tight now, I am using rc5 (I tried to switch to rc6, but as I mentioned - it is changing set name (from pdc_fiaaeaab to pdc_bahdfcgbc) and instead of five 1,2,3,5,6 (I have extended partition as well) it creates only first three. But, as I said - both versions can't see more than 100G there. And here, as a reference output from dmraid -rD (version rc6): /dev/hde: pdc, "pdc_bahdfcgbc", mirror, ok, 195360896 sectors, data@ 0 /dev/hdg: pdc, "pdc_bahdfcgbc", mirror, ok, 195360896 sectors, data@ 0 Regards, Alex On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 15:46 +0100, Heinz Mauelshagen wrote: > On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 02:19:50AM -0500, Alex Ryabtsev wrote: > > Hi Peter, > > > > it is not exactly controller (add-in card) - it is integrated chipset of > > ASUS A7V motherboard with patched _BIOS_ to being able to boot from RAID > > and use it under other supported systems (Windows perhaps) and have > > redundancy for system boot as well too. I am not using patched dmraid (I > > just pointed on that post in case if my problem has same roots). > > > > And as I said, it is working for me fine, but I am loosing here 100G of > > redundant disk space, which is a bit disappointing ;-). > > Alex, > > you're the first to report the pdc size error... > > I followed the metadata format handler code back to the first version, > and the size error reported seems to be in there since ever :( > > Fix will be in rc7. > > Heinz > > > > > Regards, > > Alex > > > > On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 02:05 -0500, Peter Bense wrote: > > > Alex, > > > > > > I have a fair bit of experience installing these controllers in Gentoo. > > > Your problem description is pretty vague, however. > > > > > > Out of curiousity, why are you using dmraid? What is it that is > > > 'patched'? Please elaborate. > > > > > > I just build a new kernel in Gentoo with PDC support in my installs. (I > > > have 3 systems that I've configured with Promise cards in Gentoo...) > > > > > > ./peter > > > > > > Peter T. Bense - Teradata Certified Professional > > > (ptbense@xxxxxxxxxx) - 803-777-9476 > > > Database Administrator/Webmaster > > > Prevention Research Center > > > University of South Carolina > > > >>> alxsey@xxxxxxxxxxx 03/11/05 12:22 AM >>> > > > Hi, > > > > > > being new to this list and to dmraid, I could not be so sure is my > > > problem is what Paul Moore describes here > > > (https://www.redhat.com/archives/ataraid-list/2005-February/msg00004.html > > > - Subject: Re: Some strange behavior with Promise Fasttrak). > > > > > > I am using dmraid (rc5) within Gentoo (using dmraid initrd) on Promise > > > integrated PDC20265 controller with patched for RAID support BIOS. It > > > works pretty well (although I had no chance to check raid1 , which I am > > > using, functionality). There is only problem that from my two 200G hard > > > drives I have acceseble 100G only (remember, this is RAID1, so I have to > > > have 200G). dmraid rc6 looks like does not helps here too much, but for > > > me even makes things worse - it is changing mapped set name and as far > > > as I can tell, fdisk show me same 100G, and I have only 3 devices > > > in /dev/mapper instead of 5 I'm having with rc5. > > > > > > Is there any advice for my case or I am too unclear here? > > > > > > Regards, > > > Alex > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > > 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 >
