Greg, so you obviously got sil metadata on sdb somehow. Typical reason is, that the drive was a previous member of a sil set. If you want to get rid of it: 'dmraid -rE /dev/sdb' Regards, Heinz On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 11:55:36AM -0600, Greg Felix wrote: > Hi, > > I've got a computer capable of setting up an isw RAID. It can also be > switched to handle the two disks separately, which I'm currently > doing. The problem is that when I boot up dmraid is still finding a > RAID array. The problems are: 1. I don't have a RAID array 2. The > array it is finding is of type sil (not isw) 3. The array is being > setup only on my second disk (/dev/sdb). Anybody ever seen this? I > don't know what the sil metadata looks like or where is should be on > the disk. I guess this might not be a dmraid bug since if the disk > really has metadata on it than dmraid is doing what it should by > setting up the array. > > I just wanted to see what you all think. Or whether you know anything > off hand about this. > > Below are some dmraid outputs: > > Greg > > dmraid -tay -vvv gives: > > WARN: locking /var/lock/dmraid/.lock > NOTICE: skipping removable device /dev/sdc > 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: sil: areas 1,2,3,4[4] are valid > NOTICE: /dev/sdb: sil metadata discovered > NOTICE: /dev/sdb: via discovering > NOTICE: added /dev/sdb to RAID set "sil_afafdibjcbfg" > sil_afafdibjcbfg: 0 145223040 linear /dev/sdb 0 > INFO: Activating stripe RAID set "sil_afafdibjcbfg" > WARN: unlocking /var/lock/dmraid/.lock > > dmsetup table gives: > > sil_afafdibjcbfg1: 0 145211472 linear 254:0 63 > sil_afafdibjcbfg: 0 145223040 linear 8:16 0 > > _______________________________________________ > > 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
