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

[Luca Berra]

On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 07:46:10PM +0100, Heinz Mauelshagen wrote:
>On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 03:43:53PM +0100, Luca Berra wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 03:37:24PM +0100, Heinz Mauelshagen wrote:
>> >>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 ?
>> 
>> well, it never found any array, i don't have the exact messages now
>> since i moved the disks to the VIA.
>
>Ah, that might be an unknown offset to the metadata in pdc_read_metadat() then.
>
>> i will eventually move them back to the PDC and test again
>
>Good, tell me once you get to it and dd the last ~1/2 MB off each drive
>for analysis.
>
btw, that controller has an option to round the array size to the
nearest GB boundary, do you know if this is relevant for metadata
placement? (for the record i tried both enabling and disabling it)

L.

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