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

[Heinz Mauelshagen]

On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 10:07:00PM +0100, Luca Berra wrote:
> 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)

I don't know. My test controller didn't have that.

Even more interesting to find and retrieve the metadata for both cases :)

Heinz

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Heinz Mauelshagen                                 Red Hat GmbH
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