On Sat, 2002-12-21 at 14:46, Brian Curtis wrote: > Hello Chris, > > Saturday, December 21, 2002, 2:13:26 PM, you wrote: > > CK> It sounds to me like there are two competing drivers that understand > CK> this card hptraid and ataraid. What happens if you only load one of them > CK> at a time? I believe what I used to play with was the ataraid, and it > CK> seemed ugly at the time. The hptraid driver seems to allow the raid > CK> array to be accessed like a single scsi disk. You might have to try both > CK> individually to allow you not to have the disk locked as read only. > > Going by the ATARAID HOWTO at redhat.com/arjanv/pdcraid/ataraidhowto.html, > you insmod ataraid then [hpt|pdc]raid depending on your controller. I > can insmod ataraid at any time, but ataraid.o has to be loaded first > or hptraid throws all kinds of unresolved symbol errors. Well, Arjan would certainly know for sure. I was guessing from my past experiences with it. > Well, now I'm starting to panic a bit... I can no longer mount the > stripe using the the original hpt37x2 driver. Keep getting: Never a good sign. :( > VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev ataraid(114,1). > > when using -t ext3 or > > FAT: bogus logical sector size 0 > VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 72:01. > > when I don't specify fs type. This happens with both drivers now, > the hpt37x2 driver allowed me to at least mount the strip before. > > I'm wondering if I fubar'd my stripe some how... Though I don't see how > as I never had the chance to modify data on it. Quite frustrating... Unfortunately it's very possible. > Using fdisk, I get the following info when ataraid and hptraid is > loaded: > > Disk /dev/ataraid/d0: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 20023 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/ataraid/d0p1 1 20023 160834716 83 Linux > > And the same info when using the hpt37x2 driver and fdisk on /dev/sdd. > > I'm holding out hope that I'll eventually have access to my data > once again (hopefully soon). > > CK> You're going to make me go buy some drives now, aren't you? :) > > Umm, if I had spares, I'd send them your way :) That's ok, I don't mind spending money on life's basic necessities... 1) Food 2) Clothing 3) Shelter 4) Bandwitdh 5) Hardware > >> Also, hptdaemon is still being loaded at boot, should I switch this > >> off? > > CK> Where does this come in? (Never even heard of it). > > This was from the High Point provided driver package. I'm removing it > as it doesn't seem to be necessary to load the hpt37x2 driver. It was > for the gui that I never used (and it relies on the hpt37x2 driver). That explains why I never heard of it. -- Chris Kloiber -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
