Molle, I assume, this is the very same metadata you sent to me, right ? Accessible fine in my testbed (which simulates disks via sparse mapped devices containing your metadata): Molle_Bestefich # dmraid -r /dev/dm-14: hpt37x, "hpt37x_ehgjaggaf", stripe, ok, 156355446 sectors, data@ 10 /dev/dm-18: hpt37x, "hpt37x_ehgjaggaf", stripe, ok, 156355456 sectors, data@ 0 /dev/dm-22: hpt45x, "hpt45x_bbdfhdjicg", mirror, ok, 156301478 sectors, data@ 0 /dev/dm-26: hpt45x, "hpt45x_bbdfhdjicg", mirror, ok, 156301478 sectors, data@ 0 Molle_Bestefich # dmraid -tay hpt37x_ehgjaggaf: 0 312710892 striped 2 128 /dev/dm-18 0 /dev/dm-14 10 hpt45x_bbdfhdjicg: 0 156301478 mirror core 2 64 nosync 2 /dev/dm-22 0 /dev/dm-26 0 What does "dmraid -r /dev/hd[ik]" display ? If no RAID device information, what does "dmraid -vvv -r /dev/hd[ik]" display ? Regards, Heinz On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 05:00:40AM -0500, Molle Bestefich wrote: > Hi > > I'm trying to get DMRAID to run on a system with only RAIDed disks. > > I've downloaded Knoppix 3.7, which contains a 2.6.9 kernel and > device-mapper tools. > > Also, I've downloaded dmraid-1.0.0-rc6-1_static.i386.rpm and extracted > dmraid with 'alien'. > > When I run 'dmraid -tay', it only sees half of the disks on the RAID controller. > It sees hde and hdg which is the two first disks, but not hdi and hdk. > > 'dmraid' then assembles the mirror array in degraded mode, and bails > out on the striped array since it has a disk missing. > > Help! :-) > > Device mapper: > $ insmod dm-mod > $ insmod dm-mirror > $ dmesg | tail -n 1 > device-mapper: 4.1.0-ioctl (2003-12-10) initialised: dm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > DmRaid: > $ dmraid -tay -vvv > NOTICE: /dev/hde: hpt37x discovering > NOTICE: /dev/hde: hpt37x metadata discovered > NOTICE: /dev/hde: hpt45x discovering > [... snip: hde / isw,lsi,nvidia,pdc,sil,via discovery notice ...] > NOTICE: /dev/hdg: hpt37x discovering > NOTICE: /dev/hdg: hpt45x discovering > NOTICE: /dev/hdg: hpt45x metadata discovered > [... snip: hdg / isw,lsi,nvidia,pdc,sil,via discovery notice ...] > NOTICE: added /dev/hde to RAID set "hpt37x_ehgjaggaf" > NOTICE: added /dev/hdg to RAID set "hpt45x_bbdfhdjicg" > ERROR: hpt37x: wrong # of devices in RAID set "hpt37x_ehgjaggaf" [1/2] > on /dev/hde > ERROR: removing inconsistent RAID set "hpt37x_ehgjaggaf" > ERROR: creating degraded mirror mapping for "hpt45x_bbdfhdjicg" > hpt45x_bbdfhdjicg: 0 78150739 linear /dev/hdg 0 > INFO: Activating mirror RAID set "hpt45x_bbdfhdjicg" > > Disk listing: > $ for hd in `ls -1d /proc/ide/hd?|awk -F/ '{print $NF}'`; do > info="$hd: ["`cat /proc/ide/$hd/model`"] ("`cat > /proc/ide/$hd/capacity`" sectors)"; echo $info; done > > hdc: [_NEC DVD_RW ND-2510A] (2147483647 sectors) > hde: [MAXTOR 6L080L4] (156355584 sectors) > hdg: [ST380021A] (156301488 sectors) > hdi: [MAXTOR 6L080L4] (156355584 sectors) > hdk: [MAXTOR 6L080L4] (156355584 sectors) > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-