Fasttrak raid 0

[Erlend Davidson]

The drives are two ST3120026AS.  Windows sees C / H / S = 232514 / 16 / 
63, which gives 234374112 total sectors.  Linux sees total 234375000 
sectors; so it might well be seeing the wrong disk size.

Thanks,

Erlend

>Hrm, I wonder if this is another case of wrong disk size
>reported by the kernel.
>Does the kernel reported size equal the drive manufactorer's ?
>
>On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 12:02:26AM +0000, Erlend Davidson wrote:
>  
>
>>Where should the metadata be on the drives in FastTrak raid 0?  I'm 
>>asking because I've heard it should be in the last 265 sectors of each 
>>drive in the array, but mine lies in 234374049 to 234374055 on a disk 
>>sized 234375000 sectors, so dmraid doesn't detect the raid.  I'm 
>>wondering if I could:
>>echo "0 234374055 linear /dev/sdX 0" | dmsetup create hdX
>>X=[a,b]
>>and then run dmraid, so that it will pick up hda and hdb and raid them?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Erlend
>>
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