Re: [RE]Intel SATA RAID

["James Olson" <big_spender12@xxxxxxxxx>]

For the "just sitting there" problem try updating your mkinitrd to the latest version rpm, because there was a problem on the newer kernels with redhat nash hanging during the activation of dmraid and it was related to needing a newer version of nash that was compiled with a newer version of parted.






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>  Subject : Re: [RE]Intel SATA RAID
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>  Date : Wed, 13 Dec 2006 21:13:37 +0800
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>  From : Hadders <ata.raid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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>  To : "ATARAID (eg, Promise Fasttrak,  Highpoint 370) related discussions" <ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
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> James Olson wrote:
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> > > dm create isw_cdgbeijgjh_iaa 0 1250275846 striped 2 256 8:0 8:16 0
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> > Ok, so now that you have that information it is easy enough to 
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> > calculate the stripe size to change it 2. It is simply 
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> > 1250275846/(2*256) = 2441945.01171875
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> > we want an even multiple so take 2441945*512= 1250275840
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> > Soooo, replace the line in your "init" file
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> > dm create isw_cdgbeijgjh_iaa 0 1250275846 striped 2 256 8:0 8:16 0
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> > with
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> > dm create isw_cdgbeijgjh_iaa 0 1250275840 striped 2 256 8:0 8:16 0
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> > and the length not divisble by chunk size error should go away (for 
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> > kernels 2.6.17 and above).
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> > -James
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> Well, it sounded good, heck it even made sense. Sadly though, the RAID 
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> just sits there now, doesn't complain, just sits there and spins its wheels.
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> Thanks again, for all the help.
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