Hrm, dmraid-1.0.0.rc11 has the stride size fix in,
which *should* prevent that kernel message to occur.
Can you send me your metadata created with "dmraid -rD"
for analysis, please ?
Pack the *.{dat,size,offset} files into isw-Hadders-raid0.tar.bz2
before sending.
Regards,
Heinz -- The LVM Guy --
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 10:21:11PM +0800, Hadders wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm new to trying to get my Intel SATA RAID 0 container working. I
> want to use the "hardware" mode as oppossed to software RAID so I can
> share it with my Windows setups.
> I've just spent the last three days banging my head against a brick wall.
> In short, I'm using FC5 and am looking to get the latest kernel,
> 2.6.18-1.2239.fc5smp working with this container. I don't understand
> why it doesn't, the base FC5 kernel does.
> I've just got my SATAII disks and setup the container in the Intel BIOS.
> I've installed FC5 from scratch and used anaconda to setup the partitions.
> When I reboot into my new kernel, I get an error when it tries to
> activate the container, that is
>
> device-mapper: table: 253:0 striped: Target length not divisble by chunk
> size
>
> then I get growled at for using parted and not knowing what I'm doing. I
> didn't! honest, I used anaconda.
> the lines for setting up the container in the init file of the initrd are
> rmparts sdb
> rmparts sda
> dm create isw_cdgbeijgjh_iaa 0 1250275846 striped 2 256 8:0 8:16 0
> dm partadd isw_cdgbeijgjh_iaa
>
> Here's the details of my setup that I can access under 2.6.15-1.2054
> (base FC5) kernel
>
> dmraid -V
> dmraid version: 1.0.0.rc11 (2006.05.15) debug
> dmraid library version: 1.0.0.rc11 (2006.05.15)
> device-mapper version: 4.5.0
>
> dmraid -rD
> /dev/sda: isw, "isw_cdgbeijgjh", GROUP, ok, 625142446 sectors, data@ 0
> /dev/sdb: isw, "isw_cdgbeijgjh", GROUP, ok, 625142446 sectors, data@ 0
>
> dmraid -s -g
> *** Superset
> name : isw_cdgbeijgjh
> size : 1250284892
> stride : 0
> type : GROUP
> status : ok
> subsets: 1
> devs : 2
> spares : 0
> --> Active Subset
> name : isw_cdgbeijgjh_iaa
> size : 1250275840
> stride : 256
> type : stripe
> status : ok
> subsets: 0
> devs : 2
> spares : 0
>
> dmsetup status
> isw_cdgbeijgjh_iaap6: 0 4498137 linear
> isw_cdgbeijgjh_iaap5: 0 204796557 linear
> isw_cdgbeijgjh_iaa: 0 1250275846 striped
> isw_cdgbeijgjh_iaap4: 0 1044947925 linear
> isw_cdgbeijgjh_iaap3: 0 102398310 linear
> isw_cdgbeijgjh_iaap2: 0 102398310 linear
> isw_cdgbeijgjh_iaap1: 0 530082 linear
>
> I think the 18-1 kernel uses device-mapper v4.7
>
> However, I'm lost as to what to do now. Help! Please!
>
> Thanks in advance. Hadley
>
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