Re: Not working on ATI SB750 as of debian's 1.0.0.rc15 (updated: raid1, 2.6.32, debian's 1.0.0.rc16)

["James Olson" <big_spender12@xxxxxxxxx>]

 Hello,
The problem is that Promise raid BIOS stores it's metadata near the end of the drive, but only in a sector number that is evenly divisible by 63 (sectors/track).   My WD 250GB drive (originally in a Dell computer) is the same exact size as yours but I reduced it in size using the hdparm -N host protected area function by 2 sectors, see the man page for hdparm to see how to do this:

# fdisk -l /dev/sdb

Disk /dev/sdb: 249.9 GB, 249999998976 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30394 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x3b0cc04a

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *           1        2550    20482843+   c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sdb2            2551        2614      514080   83  Linux
/dev/sdb3            2615        7458    38909430    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb4            7459       30393   184225387+   f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sdb5            7459        7522      514048+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb6            7523       30393   183711276   83  Linux
# hdparm -N /dev/sdb

/dev/sdb:
 max sectors   = 488281248/488281250, HPA is enabled

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Subject : Re: Not working on ATI SB750 as of debian's 1.0.0.rc15 (updated: raid1, 2.6.32, debian's 1.0.0.rc16)

Date : Sat, 9 Jan 2010 02:34:19 +0000 (GMT)

From : Ezequiel_Lara_Gómez <jisakiel@xxxxxxxx>

To : ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx



Gonna have another stab at this, as I would really like to have working multiOS raid. Doesn't work yet as of rc16 and 2.6.32.





The trouble is that metadata is only found in one of the drives, so raid0 can't be activated and raid1 appears as degraded, although in windows (obviously) it works fine, and the bios shows it as functional.



I believe it might be because of slightly different drive sizes, although I can't really confirm it as my two only identical drives are already in use in a different raid1.





In my tests:



sda is my main root drive, sdd is an usb drive, sdb is a western digital of 250G and sdc is a maxtor of 251G (as shown in the bios). Neither of gigabyte boundary options (on/off) make a difference, although in these tests it is off, which is not the default. And I get the same results with raid1 and raid0, although this test is with raid1.





# dmraid -ay -f pdc -vvv -d

NOTICE: checking format identifier pdc

WARN: locking /var/lock/dmraid/.lock

NOTICE: skipping removable device /dev/hda

NOTICE: skipping removable device /dev/hdb

NOTICE: /dev/sdd: pdc discovering

NOTICE: /dev/sdc: pdc discovering

NOTICE: /dev/sdc: pdc metadata discovered

NOTICE: /dev/sdb: pdc discovering

NOTICE: /dev/sda: pdc discovering

DEBUG: _find_set: searching pdc_dihbhdgahc

DEBUG: _find_set: not found pdc_dihbhdgahc

DEBUG: _find_set: searching pdc_dihbhdgahc

DEBUG: _find_set: not found pdc_dihbhdgahc

NOTICE: added /dev/sdc to RAID set "pdc_dihbhdgahc"

DEBUG: checking pdc device "/dev/sdc"

ERROR: pdc: wrong # of devices in RAID set "pdc_dihbhdgahc" [1/2] on /dev/sdc

DEBUG: set status of set "pdc_dihbhdgahc" to 4

DEBUG: checking pdc device "/dev/sdc"

ERROR: pdc: wrong # of devices in RAID set "pdc_dihbhdgahc" [1/2] on /dev/sdc

DEBUG: set status of set "pdc_dihbhdgahc" to 4

RAID set "pdc_dihbhdgahc" already active

INFO: Activating mirror raid set "pdc_dihbhdgahc"

NOTICE: discovering partitions on "pdc_dihbhdgahc"

NOTICE: /dev/mapper/pdc_dihbhdgahc: dos discovering

NOTICE: /dev/mapper/pdc_dihbhdgahc: dos metadata discovered

DEBUG: _find_set: searching pdc_dihbhdgahc1

DEBUG: _find_set: not found pdc_dihbhdgahc1

NOTICE: created partitioned RAID set(s) for /dev/mapper/pdc_dihbhdgahc

RAID set "pdc_dihbhdgahc1" already active

INFO: Activating partition raid set "pdc_dihbhdgahc1"

WARN: unlocking /var/lock/dmraid/.lock

DEBUG: freeing devices of RAID set "pdc_dihbhdgahc"

DEBUG: freeing device "pdc_dihbhdgahc", path "/dev/sdc"

DEBUG: freeing devices of RAID set "pdc_dihbhdgahc1"

DEBUG: freeing device "pdc_dihbhdgahc1", path "/dev/mapper/pdc_dihbhdgahc"



I can attach or upload the generated dmraid.pdc folder if anyone wants (don't really want to overload the archives). However it does only contain sdc.xxx files, and nothing about sdb. I can provide dd of the required sectors of the other drive as well (just tell me which ones are!).





Just in case I forced a synchronize with the raidxpert web interface from windows, which already completed, without any difference.



The geometry of the drives (which are slightly different, as the bigger one is older):





root@blackie:~# fdisk -l /dev/sdb





Disk /dev/sdb: 250.0 GB, 250000000000 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30394 cylinders

Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Disk identifier: 0x85311ed9



Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System

/dev/sdb1 1 30273 243161088 7 HPFS/NTFS

root@blackie:~# fdisk -l /dev/sdc



Disk /dev/sdc: 251.0 GB, 251000193024 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30515 cylinders

Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Disk identifier: 0x85311ed9



Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System

/dev/sdc1 1 30273 243161088 7 HPFS/NTFS





If anyone should be interested in making ataraid work in SB750 southbridge, just contact me and I will follow instructions for making the tests in the hardware. I have the two drives referred above available for this testing, and might perhaps get another 250G and an additional smaller one if required for any other raid types; so long, I am only trying raid0 and 1 with two of them. I will repeat the test ASAP with the *other* drive (which is exactly 250 IIRC).



Just in case it helps:





jisakiel@blackie:~$ uname -a

Linux blackie 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 #1 SMP Thu Jan 7 17:44:12 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux

jisakiel@blackie:~$ apt-cache policy dmraid

dmraid:

Instalados: 1.0.0.rc16-3

Candidato: 1.0.0.rc16-3

Tabla de versión:

*** 1.0.0.rc16-3 0

990 http://ftp.de.debian.org testing/main Packages

500 http://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/main Packages

100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

1.0.0.rc14-7 0

500 http://ftp.de.debian.org stable/main Packages



Motherboard is an Asus M3A78-T with the latest (1701) bios; I can provide as well the raid bios version if needed. SB is the SB750.



Thanks for the attention and sorry for the long email; I would really like to troubleshoot this.





----- Mensaje original ----

> De: Ezequiel Lara Gómez

> Para: ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx

> Enviado: mar,17 marzo, 2009 17:58

> Asunto: Not working on ATI SB750 as of debian's 1.0.0.rc15

>

> I saw in this mailing list some patches related to dmraid working in SB600

> (https://www.redhat.com/archives/ataraid-list/2009-March/msg00005.html, and

> redhat's bug

> http://www.redhat.com/archives/ataraid-list/2008-March/msg00015.html ). Debian

> has this patches in experimental's version 1.0.0.rc15-3 in the file

> "09_promise-add-offsets.patch":

>

> -#define PDC_CONFIGOFFSETS 63,255,256,16,399,675,735,974,991

> +#define PDC_CONFIGOFFSETS 63,255,256,16,399,675,735,974,991,911,974,591

>

>

> However it still doesn't work on my Asus M3A78-T with SB750 and latest bios

> (0802).

>

> By the way, I noticed the raid manager, both the windows web-based and the BIOS

> one (duh, of course), allow you to create several raids on a couple of disks,

> and I recall having readed on this list that it -non-full-drive raids- wasn't

> supported as no promise controller was documented to support it yet... I could

> be wrong though.

>

>

> Right now I have three drives: One, a fast WD 150G drive, working standalone,

> and then two slightly different 250G drives (Maxtor and WD, one appears as being

> 251G). The array in bios is created with these two drives as one RAID1 (2x1)

> 200G in size, and then the remaining space as raid0 (~91G IIRC). dmraid -r -vvv

> -d only finds metadata in one of the drives, and only for the first array. I

> also tried in plain whole-disk raid1 and raid0 configuration and it still didn't

> find the metadata on both disks (with debian's version which has that patch

> preapplied!).

>

> I'm more than willing to help debugging / testing this, as I'd really like

> dmraid to work on this configuration (dmraid + IFS for using ext3 in windows =

> multibootheaven ;) ). I can provide dumps if wanted (tar-gzed of course ;) );

> drives are clean and I won't use them until I get this to work. If needed I'll

> give more precise info about my setup from windows / the bios.

>

>

>

> PS:

>

> jisakiel@blackie:~/src/dmraid/dmraid-1.0.0.rc15/debian/patches$ sudo dmraid -r

> -vvv -d

> WARN: locking /var/lock/dmraid/.lock

> NOTICE: skipping removable device /dev/hda

> NOTICE: skipping removable device /dev/hdb

> NOTICE: /dev/sdc: asr discovering

> NOTICE: /dev/sdc: ddf1 discovering

> NOTICE: /dev/sdc: hpt37x discovering

> NOTICE: /dev/sdc: hpt45x discovering

> NOTICE: /dev/sdc: isw discovering

> NOTICE: /dev/sdc: jmicron discovering

> NOTICE: /dev/sdc: lsi discovering

> NOTICE: /dev/sdc: nvidia discovering

> NOTICE: /dev/sdc: pdc discovering

> NOTICE: /dev/sdc: sil discovering

> NOTICE: /dev/sdc: via discovering

> NOTICE: /dev/sdb: asr discovering

> NOTICE: /dev/sdb: ddf1 discovering

> NOTICE: /dev/sdb: hpt37x discovering

> NOTICE: /dev/sdb: hpt45x discovering

> NOTICE: /dev/sdb: isw discovering

> NOTICE: /dev/sdb: jmicron discovering

> NOTICE: /dev/sdb: lsi discovering

> NOTICE: /dev/sdb: nvidia discovering

> NOTICE: /dev/sdb: pdc discovering

> NOTICE: /dev/sdb: pdc metadata discovered

> NOTICE: /dev/sdb: sil discovering

> NOTICE: /dev/sdb: via discovering

> NOTICE: /dev/sda: asr discovering

> NOTICE: /dev/sda: ddf1 discovering

> NOTICE: /dev/sda: hpt37x discovering

> NOTICE: /dev/sda: hpt45x discovering

> NOTICE: /dev/sda: isw discovering

> NOTICE: /dev/sda: jmicron 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

> INFO: RAID device discovered:

>

> /dev/sdb: pdc, "pdc_bcdgijjhcg", mirror, ok, 410156288 sectors, data@ 0

> WARN: unlocking /var/lock/dmraid/.lock









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