Getting error when trying to mount a isw raid

Heinz Mauelshagen mauelshagen at redhat.com
Tue Aug 24 14:41:45 UTC 2004


On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 09:09:44AM -0700, Dave Brewster wrote:
> The device mounts just fine at boot time, but isn't picked up by dm
> raid.

Hi Dave,

this is most likely caused by a flaw in handling SCSI disk serial numbers
in dmraid which will be fixed in 1.0.0-rc4.

Please look for the next release announcement on this list.
Hopefully not later than next week ;)

Regards,
Heinz    -- The LVM Guy --

> 
> SUSE 9.1 / but with 2.6.8.1 kernel.
> 
> When doing a dmraid -s, I get the following:
> 
> 
> brewster:/usr/src/linux/Documentation/filesystems # dmraid -v -ay
> INFO: locking /var/lock/dmraid/.lock
> INFO: /dev/hdc: hpt37x discovering
> INFO: /dev/hdc: hpt45x discovering
> INFO: /dev/hdc: isw    discovering
> INFO: /dev/hdc: lsi    discovering
> INFO: /dev/hdc: pdc    discovering
> INFO: /dev/hdc: sil    discovering
> INFO: /dev/sda: hpt37x discovering
> INFO: /dev/sda: hpt45x discovering
> INFO: /dev/sda: isw    discovering
> ERROR: isw: Error finding disk table slot for /dev/sda
> INFO: isw metadata discovered on /dev/sda
> INFO: /dev/sda: lsi    discovering
> INFO: /dev/sda: pdc    discovering
> INFO: /dev/sda: sil    discovering
> INFO: /dev/sdb: hpt37x discovering
> INFO: /dev/sdb: hpt45x discovering
> INFO: /dev/sdb: isw    discovering
> ERROR: isw: Error finding disk table slot for /dev/sdb
> INFO: isw metadata discovered on /dev/sdb
> INFO: /dev/sdb: lsi    discovering
> INFO: /dev/sdb: pdc    discovering
> INFO: /dev/sdb: sil    discovering
> INFO: added /dev/sda to RAID set "isw_eahbbggeai"
> INFO: added /dev/sdb to RAID set "isw_eahbbggeai"
> ERROR: RAID set "isw_eahbbggeai" is inconsistent
> ERROR: check of "isw_eahbbggeai" failed, removing RAID set
> No Software RAID sets
> 
> 

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