On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 10:07:00PM +0100, Luca Berra wrote: > On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 07:46:10PM +0100, Heinz Mauelshagen wrote: > >On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 03:43:53PM +0100, Luca Berra wrote: > >>On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 03:37:24PM +0100, Heinz Mauelshagen wrote: > >>>>while i never have been able to get it work using the embedded pdc > >>>>00:08.0 RAID bus controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20378 > >>(FastTrak >>378/SATA 378) (rev 02) > >>> > >>>Hrm, could that be the PDC size bug discussed on this list ? > >> > >>well, it never found any array, i don't have the exact messages now > >>since i moved the disks to the VIA. > > > >Ah, that might be an unknown offset to the metadata in pdc_read_metadat() > >then. > > > >>i will eventually move them back to the PDC and test again > > > >Good, tell me once you get to it and dd the last ~1/2 MB off each drive > >for analysis. > > > btw, that controller has an option to round the array size to the > nearest GB boundary, do you know if this is relevant for metadata > placement? (for the record i tried both enabling and disabling it) I don't know. My test controller didn't have that. Even more interesting to find and retrieve the metadata for both cases :) Heinz > > L. > > -- > Luca Berra -- bluca@xxxxxxxxxx > Communication Media & Services S.r.l. > /"\ > \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN > X AGAINST HTML MAIL > / \ > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
