Fw: Re: Fw: medley raid problem

[James Olson]

 Hello Molle,
Update:  Although I did not see any hpa messages in the 2.6 log, I did see a host protected area message on hdg in the following 2.4 kernel dmesg log:

SiI680: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:0b.0
PCI: Found IRQ 4 for device 00:0b.0
SiI680: chipset revision 2
SiI680: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
SiI680: BASE CLOCK == 133 
    ide2: MMIO-DMA , BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio
    ide3: MMIO-DMA , BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio
hdc: CREATIVECD-RW RW6424E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hde: FUJITSU MPA3035ATU, ATA DISK drive
hdf: IBM-DAQA-33240, ATA DISK drive
blk: queue c031fc68, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
blk: queue c031fda4, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
hdg: WDC AC23200L, ATA DISK drive
blk: queue c03200bc, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
ide2 at 0xd080d080-0xd080d087,0xd080d08a on irq 4
ide3 at 0xd080d0c0-0xd080d0c7,0xd080d0ca on irq 4
hde: attached ide-disk driver.
hde: 6835952 sectors (3500 MB), CHS=6781/16/63, UDMA(33)
hdf: attached ide-disk driver.
hdf: 6346368 sectors (3249 MB) w/96KiB Cache, CHS=6296/16/63, DMA
hdg: attached ide-disk driver.
hdg: host protected area => 1
hdg: task_no_data_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdg: task_no_data_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
hdg: 6346368 sectors (3249 MB) w/256KiB Cache, CHS=6296/16/63, UDMA(33)
Partition check:
 hde: [PTBL] [425/255/63] hde1
 hdf: [PTBL] [395/255/63] hdf1
 hdg: [PTBL] [395/255/63] hdg1
ide: late registration of driver.
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Also the partition check message doesn't appear in the 2.6 log either.
Here is the 2.6 log:

SiI680: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:0b.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0b.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 177
SiI680: chipset revision 2
SiI680: BASE CLOCK == 133
SiI680: 100% native mode on irq 177
    ide2: MMIO-DMA , BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio
    ide3: MMIO-DMA , BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio
Probing IDE interface ide2...
hde: FUJITSU MPA3035ATU, ATA DISK drive
hdf: IBM-DAQA-33240, ATA DISK drive
ide2 at 0xd081a080-0xd081a087,0xd081a08a on irq 177
Probing IDE interface ide3...
hdg: WDC AC23200L, ATA DISK drive
ide3 at 0xd081a0c0-0xd081a0c7,0xd081a0ca on irq 177
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hde: max request size: 64KiB
hde: 6835952 sectors (3500 MB), CHS=6781/16/63, UDMA(33)
hde: cache flushes not supported
 hde: hde1
hdf: max request size: 64KiB
hdf: 6346368 sectors (3249 MB) w/96KiB Cache, CHS=6296/16/63, DMA
hdf: cache flushes not supported
 hdf: hdf1
hdg: max request size: 64KiB
hdg: 6346368 sectors (3249 MB) w/256KiB Cache, CHS=6296/16/63, UDMA(33)
hdg: cache flushes not supported
 hdg: hdg1
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The irq 177 for the card is due to the 2.6 kernel being smp and using apic. The 2.4 kernel isn't an smp kernel.
Also there is some question of the drive geometry between the different kernels.  The hdparm -g outputs differ.  Apparently the parition check is setting lba geometry.   I need to recompile hdparm on each kernel to verify this though.

----- Original Message -----
From: "James Olson" <big_spender12 at lycos.com>
To: "ATARAID (eg, Promise Fasttrak, Highpoint 370) related discussions" <ataraid-list at redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Fw: medley raid problem
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 12:48:05 -0500

> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Molle Bestefich" <molle.bestefich at gmail.com>
> To: "ATARAID (eg, Promise Fasttrak,  Highpoint 370) related discussions" 
> <ataraid-list at redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: Fw: medley raid problem
> Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 06:35:23 +0000
> 
> >
> > James Olson <big_spender12 at lycos.com> wrote:
> > > Also I tried this exact same hardware setup using Redhat 9 with a 2.4.32-rc1 kernel,
> > > loading modules ataraid and medley.  That works; here is my dmesg output:
> > >
> > > Medley RAID: Striped set 0 consists of 3 disks, total 9MiB - disks:
> > > 21:00 22:00 21:40
> > >  ataraid/d0: ataraid/d0p1
> > > Medley RAID: 1 active RAID set
> >
> > Same dmraid version, only different kernel?
> No, I wasn't using dmraid, I was using the ataraid kernel module along with the medley kernel 
> module (got the 2.4.32-rc1 source from kernel.org, compiled it with those modules).   Does 
> dmraid work under a 2.4 kernel?
> >
> > Maybe it's HPA related, check dmesg | grep HPA
> Tried that, there were no HPA or Host Protected Area messages.
> >
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