dmraid and promise fasttrak controller
Heinz Mauelshagen
mauelshagen at redhat.com
Wed Jan 12 14:36:58 UTC 2005
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 04:33:58PM +0100, Dick Marinus wrote:
> I'd like to migrate to Linux 2.6, but my root partition is on a pdc raid
> device. I've created an initrd (with dmraid) and it seems to detect the
> array, though invalid :-(
>
> When the linuxrc starts dmraid -ay I'm getting the following errors:
> ERROR: keeping degraded mirror set "pdc_jjajccdd"
> ERROR: no mapping possible for RAID set pdc_jjajccdd
>
> From linux 2.4 dmraid -r reports:
> /dev/hdg: pdc, "pdc_jjajccdd", mirror, broken, 159179687 sectors, data@ 0
> /dev/hde: pdc, "pdc_jjajccdd", mirror, broken, 159179687 sectors, data@ 0
> (the raid set is mounted at this moment)
This looks like bit 8 set in raid.status of the Promise metadata
(see dmraid -n output), which is used to indicate a broken mirror in dmraid.
What does your Promise BIOS tell about the array status ?
Can you send me the metadata
(dmraid -rD;tar jcvf pdc-Dick_Marinus.tar.bz2 *.dat *.offset) please ?
>
> Any ideas? Thanks in advance!
>
> Greetings,
> Dick Marinus
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