There's also another related issue with the handling of this controller's metadata - if you're not running raid 0, the device name isn't null terminated. Added null termination and stripping out the spaces made it work for me. I can post a fairly simple patch for it if people want it and rc15 is not coming really soon. (Have to clean it up a little to make it presentable) Philip Higgins -----Original Message----- From: ataraid-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ataraid-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Heinz Mauelshagen Sent: Tuesday, 9 October 2007 6:25 PM To: ATARAID (eg, Promise Fasttrak, Highpoint 370) related discussions Subject: Re: JMicron Raid Problems on a Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3 Andreas, a patch to solve this issue will be in 1.0.0.rc15. Heinz On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 09:08:49PM +0200, Andreas Geringer wrote: > I have a Jmicron Controller on my Board and try to setup a Gentoo System on the Raid 0. > > Board: Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3 > OS: Live DVD of Fedora release 7.91 (Rawhide) > Dmraid: > dmraid version: 1.0.0.rc14 (2006.11.08) debug > dmraid library version: 1.0.0.rc14 (2006.11.08) > device-mapper version: 4.11.0 > lspci: > 03:00.0 SATA controller: JMicron Technologies, Inc. JMicron 20360/20363 AHCI Controller (rev 02) > 03:00.1 IDE interface: JMicron Technologies, Inc. JMicron 20360/20363 AHCI Controller (rev 02) > > dmraid -tay shows this > jmicron_GRAID : 0 625082368 striped 2 256 /dev/sda 0 /dev/sdb 0 > jmicron_GRAID 1: 0 61440000 linear /dev/mapper/jmicron_GRAID 206848 > jmicron_GRAID 2: 0 501993472 linear /dev/mapper/jmicron_GRAID 61646848 > jmicron_GRAID 3: 0 206785 linear /dev/mapper/jmicron_GRAID 63 > jmicron_GRAID 5: 0 3951927 linear /dev/mapper/jmicron_GRAID 563640383 > jmicron_GRAID 6: 0 57480712 linear /dev/mapper/jmicron_GRAID 567592373 > > thats ok and correct, also > cfdisk /dev/dm-1 > shows me the correct partitions > > ls -lart /dev/mapper/ > total 0 > crw-rw---- 1 root root 10, 63 2007-10-03 16:28 control > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 253, 0 2007-10-03 16:28 live-rw > brw------- 1 root root 253, 1 2007-10-03 20:49 jmicron_GRAID > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 100 2007-10-03 20:57 . > drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 8580 2007-10-03 20:58 .. > > But the jmicron_GRAID has a lot of spaces at the end of the filename. > > If I try a > dmraid -ay > dmesg shows me this: > device-mapper: table: 253:2: linear: dm-linear: Device lookup failed > device-mapper: ioctl: error adding target to table > device-mapper: table: 253:2: linear: dm-linear: Device lookup failed > device-mapper: ioctl: error adding target to table > device-mapper: table: 253:2: linear: dm-linear: Device lookup failed > device-mapper: ioctl: error adding target to table > device-mapper: table: 253:2: linear: dm-linear: Device lookup failed > device-mapper: ioctl: error adding target to table > device-mapper: table: 253:2: linear: dm-linear: Device lookup failed > device-mapper: ioctl: error adding target to table > > Maybe somebody can help me. > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Ataraid-list mailing list > Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heinz Mauelshagen Red Hat GmbH Consulting Development Engineer Am Sonnenhang 11 Storage Development 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@xxxxxxxxxx PHONE +49 171 7803392 FAX +49 2626 924446 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________ Ataraid-list mailing list Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.488 / Virus Database: 269.14.7/1062 - Release Date: 10/10/2007 5:11 PM No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.488 / Virus Database: 269.14.7/1062 - Release Date: 10/10/2007 5:11 PM _______________________________________________ Ataraid-list mailing list Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list