*** Announcement: dmraid 1.0.0.rc6 ***

[Heinz Mauelshagen]

On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 10:20:25AM +0100, Luca Berra wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 08:11:27PM +0100, Heinz Mauelshagen wrote:
> >VIA Software RAID	*** NEW ***
> 
> hello dmraid is working great with the via controller embedded in my
> ASUS K8V-SE Deluxe motherboard,
> 00:0f.0 RAID bus controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA VT6420 SATA RAID 
> Controller (rev 80)


Luca,

thanks for the positive report.

> while i never have been able to get it work using the embedded pdc
> 00:08.0 RAID bus controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20378 (FastTrak 
> 378/SATA 378) (rev 02)

Hrm, could that be the PDC size bug discussed on this list ?

> 
> the only issue i have is this error in dmesg:
> 
> attempt to access beyond end of device
> sda: rw=0, want=145227840, limit=145226112
> attempt to access beyond end of device
> sdb: rw=1, want=145227840, limit=145226112

Known one without any negative impact AFAIK.
Is in dm kernel runtime but is not yet figured...

Regards,
Heinz    -- The LVM Guy --

> 
> root at Moskow ~ # cat /sys/block/sd[ab]/size
> 145226112
> 145226112
> 
> root at Moskow ~ # dmraid -s
> *** Active Set
> name   : via_becgfhggj
> size   : 145226110
> stride : 0
> type   : mirror
> status : ok
> subsets: 0
> devs   : 2
> spares : 0
> 
> regards,
> L.
> 
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