On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 10:37:48AM -0500, Jack Palmadesso wrote: > Yesterday I set up a Promise hw raid controller in my FC8_64 system. I ended > up returning it but before I removed it I initialized 2 drives into a RAID0 > setup. Now that the controller is gone my system is complaining about > /dev/mapper. I ended up clearing this by booting into rescue and > initializing the 2 drives I had setup with the controller. The system is > happy again but when I do an fdisk -l I still show a /dev/dm-0 device. My > question is how can I initialize the drives without booting to rescue mode ? > And how can I get rid of the /dev/dm-0 device ? > > dmraid still shows the 2 devices. I've initialized and formatted both but it > won't go away. > # dmraid -r > ERROR: asr: Invalid magic number in RAID table; saw 0x0, expected 0x900765C4 > on /dev/sda > /dev/sdb: pdc, "pdc_bicfbbcgbh", stripe, ok, 312450720 sectors, data@ 0 > /dev/sdd: pdc, "pdc_bicfbbcgbh", stripe, ok, 312450720 sectors, data@ 0 See dmraid manual: dmraid -rD /dev/ad[bd] > _______________________________________________ > Ataraid-list mailing list > Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list -- Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- *** Software bugs are stupid. Nevertheless it needs not so stupid people to solve them *** =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 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
