Dushyanth, Ich5 is not (yet) supported. Can you dd the last 100KB off each drive and tar+bzip2 them up, so that I can have a look at the metadata ? Heinz On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 11:39:28PM +0530, Dushyanth Harinath wrote: > Hi, > > I have a server with the below SATA RAID controller and i have > configured RAID 1 mirror in the BIOS using 2 SATA drives. Fedora core 4 > install went smoothly [ Funny thing was that I had to type in 'linux > anything' at the installer boot prompt first and then type linux to get > the installer going. Read this workaround in some forum ] > > 00:1f.2 RAID bus controller: Intel Corporation 6300ESB SATA RAID > Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 8f) > Subsystem: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 3451 > Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 177 > I/O ports at cf80 [size=8] > I/O ports at cf00 [size=4] > I/O ports at ce80 [size=8] > I/O ports at ce00 [size=4] > I/O ports at cd80 [size=16] > > This RAID controller is supposed to be ICH5 chipset and supported by > dmraid but dmraid doesnt show me any software RAID sets. > > [root@localhost ~]# dmraid -cs -vvvvvv > WARN: locking /var/lock/dmraid/.lock > NOTICE: /dev/sda: hpt37x discovering > NOTICE: /dev/sda: hpt45x discovering > NOTICE: /dev/sda: isw discovering > NOTICE: /dev/sda: lsi discovering > NOTICE: /dev/sda: nvidia discovering > NOTICE: /dev/sda: pdc discovering > NOTICE: /dev/sda: sil discovering > NOTICE: /dev/sda: via discovering > NOTICE: /dev/sdb: hpt37x discovering > NOTICE: /dev/sdb: hpt45x discovering > NOTICE: /dev/sdb: isw discovering > NOTICE: /dev/sdb: lsi discovering > NOTICE: /dev/sdb: nvidia discovering > NOTICE: /dev/sdb: pdc discovering > NOTICE: /dev/sdb: sil discovering > NOTICE: /dev/sdb: via discovering > No Software RAID disks > WARN: unlocking /var/lock/dmraid/.lock > > I also tried installing the latest device-mapper and dmraid by compiling > the source and i still get the same output. Below are the versions > > [root@localhost ~]# dmsetup version > Library version: 1.01.04 (2005-08-02) > Driver version: 4.4.0 > > [root@localhost ~]# dmraid -V > dmraid version: 1.0.0.rc8 (2005.05.19) debug > dmraid library version: 1.0.0.rc8 (2005.05.19) > device-mapper version: 4.4.0 > > How can i get RAID 1 configured on this (fakeraid) RAID controller ? > Does dmraid support it ? Please advice. > > TIA > Dushyanth > > _______________________________________________ > > Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heinz Mauelshagen Red Hat GmbH Consulting Development Engineer Am Sonnenhang 11 Cluster and Storage Development 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@xxxxxxxxxx +49 2626 141200 FAX 924446 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________ Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list