Some strange behavior with Promise Fasttrak

[paul moore]

 Örjan,

 Did you mkfs partitions five and six useing dmraid? If you did
the formatting on them might be messed up too (overlap).

  Paul


--- Heinz Mauelshagen <mauelshagen at redhat.com> wrote:

> 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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