Some strange behavior with Promise Fasttrak

[Heinz Mauelshagen]

Örjan,

please test Paul Moore's patch provided on this list and report,
if that works for your configuration.

Thanks,
Heinz

On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 11:38:01PM +0100, Örjan Persson wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I've just installed dmraid and tried to use it. The odd thing is that
> the two first partitions work but the third doesn't. I'm using the
> Fasttrak controller found on an Soyo K7V Dragon+ motherboard.
> 
> I figure some logs will maybe explain my problem to you more easily ...
> 
> ------ log. -------
> $ sudo dmraid -s -vv
> [...]
> NOTICE: /dev/hde: pdc metadata discovered
> [...]
> NOTICE: /dev/hdf: pdc metadata discovered
> [...]
> NOTICE: added /dev/hde to RAID set "pdc_daicbgifh"
> NOTICE: added /dev/hdf to RAID set "pdc_daicbgifh"
> *** Active Set
> name   : pdc_daicbgifh
> size   : 78150656
> stride : 128
> type   : mirror
> status : ok
> subsets: 0
> devs   : 2
> spares : 0
> 
> $ sudo fdisk -l /dev/mapper/pdc_daicbgifh
> 
> Disk /dev/mapper/pdc_daicbgifh: 40.0 GB, 40013135872 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4864 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> 
>                     Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/mapper/pdc_daicbgifh1   *           1         413     3317391    7  HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/mapper/pdc_daicbgifh2             414        9729    74830770    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
> /dev/mapper/pdc_daicbgifh5             414        1165     6040408+   e  W95 FAT16 (LBA)
> /dev/mapper/pdc_daicbgifh6            1166        9729    68790298+   7  HPFS/NTFS
> 
> $ sudo mount /dev/mapper/pdc_daicbgifh6 /tmp/t -o ro -t ntfs -v
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/mapper/pdc_daicbgifh6,
>        missing codepage or other error
>        (could this be the IDE device where you in fact use
>        ide-scsi so that sr0 or sda or so is needed?)
>        In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
>        dmesg | tail  or so
> 
> $ dmesg | tail -n 3
> NTFS-fs error (device dm-17): read_ntfs_boot_sector(): Unable to read primary boot sector.
> NTFS-fs error (device dm-17): read_ntfs_boot_sector(): Mount option errors=recover not used. Aborting without trying to recover.
> NTFS-fs error (device dm-17): ntfs_fill_super(): Not an NTFS volume.
> ------ log. ------
> 
> The thing is that I'm able to mount the partitions with minor 1 and 5,
> but not the one with 6. Mounting the partition using either hde6 or hdf6
> works correctly -- but not when going through the mapper. Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Örjan



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Heinz Mauelshagen                                 Red Hat GmbH
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