Hans-Joachim, have you tried with -p in order prevent dmraid from partition activation and used kpartx to activate them yet to see, if that makes any diffrence for you ? Heinz Am Freitag, den 24.04.2009, 12:05 +0200 schrieb Hans-Joachim Baader: > Hi, > > I have a machine with 4 SATA disks, configured in two separate fakeraids. > While the hardware is detected correctly, I cannot get the system to make > the device files for the partitions. > > I tried dmraid rc14, rc15 and a patched rc15 from Debian Sid. With the > newer versions the RAID isn't even detected. I know there are various > patches floating around but it's unknown which ones are good. So here is > some output from rc14. Kernel version is 2.6.28.9 > > # dmraid -r > /dev/sdd: isw, "isw_dhhidegdgf", GROUP, ok, 488397166 sectors, data@ 0 > /dev/sdc: isw, "isw_dhhidegdgf", GROUP, ok, 488397166 sectors, data@ 0 > /dev/sdb: isw, "isw_dejhhehaec", GROUP, ok, 488397166 sectors, data@ 0 > /dev/sda: isw, "isw_dejhhehaec", GROUP, ok, 488397166 sectors, data@ 0 > > # dmraid -ay -vvv > WARN: locking /var/lock/dmraid/.lock > NOTICE: /dev/sdd: asr discovering > ... > NOTICE: /dev/sda: isw metadata discovered > ... > > NOTICE: added /dev/sdd to RAID set "isw_dhhidegdgf" > NOTICE: added /dev/sdc to RAID set "isw_dhhidegdgf" > NOTICE: added /dev/sdb to RAID set "isw_dejhhehaec" > NOTICE: added /dev/sda to RAID set "isw_dejhhehaec" > RAID set "isw_dhhidegdgf_Volume1" already active > INFO: Activating GROUP RAID set "isw_dhhidegdgf" > RAID set "isw_dejhhehaec_Volume0" already active > INFO: Activating GROUP RAID set "isw_dejhhehaec" > NOTICE: discovering partitions on "isw_dhhidegdgf_Volume1" > NOTICE: /dev/mapper/isw_dhhidegdgf_Volume1: dos discovering > NOTICE: /dev/mapper/isw_dhhidegdgf_Volume1: dos metadata discovered > NOTICE: created partitioned RAID set(s) for > /dev/mapper/isw_dhhidegdgf_Volume1 > INFO: Activating partition RAID set "isw_dhhidegdgf_Volume15" > WARN: unlocking /var/lock/dmraid/.lock > > > # ls -l /dev/mapper > crw-r--r-- 1 root root 10, 63 May 24 2005 control > brw------- 1 root root 254, 0 Apr 21 13:13 > isw_dejhhehaec_Volume0 > brw------- 1 root root 254, 1 Apr 21 13:13 > isw_dhhidegdgf_Volume1 > brw------- 1 root root 254, 5 Apr 21 13:37 > isw_dhhidegdgf_Volume15 > > After activating, there is only one partition detected, but there should > be 3, as can be seen from the fdisk output below. The first raid has a > single primary partition, the second one a singe logical partition. Using > libdevmapper 1.02 or 1.02.1 doesn't make a difference. > > # fdisk -l /dev/mapper/isw_dejhhehaec_Volume0 > > Disk /dev/mapper/isw_dejhhehaec_Volume0: 250.0 GB, 250056015872 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30400 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id > System > /dev/mapper/isw_dejhhehaec_Volume0p1 * 1 30400 244187968+ > 7 HPFS/NTFS > > # fdisk -l /dev/mapper/isw_dhhidegdgf_Volume1 > > Disk /dev/mapper/isw_dhhidegdgf_Volume1: 250.0 GB, 250056015872 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30400 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id > System > /dev/mapper/isw_dhhidegdgf_Volume1p1 2 30400 244179967+ > f Win95 Ext'd (LBA) > /dev/mapper/isw_dhhidegdgf_Volume1p5 2 30400 244179936 > 7 HPFS/NTFS > > > I tried to do "dmraid -ay" for each RAID separately but this didn't > help either. > > There's probably some information missing, tell me what you need. > > Thanks, > hjb > _______________________________________________ > Ataraid-list mailing list > Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list _______________________________________________ Ataraid-list mailing list Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list
