VIA SATA Raid volume config not properly recognized by dmraid

Phillip Susi psusi at cfl.rr.com
Sat Sep 24 01:25:54 UTC 2005


This morning's new release appears to have resolved the issue.  It now 
correctly configures the raid mapper just fine. 

You don't still want the dmraid -rD output do you?

Heinz Mauelshagen wrote:

>Hi Phillip.
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>On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 10:37:04AM -0400, Phillip Susi wrote:
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>>I used the dmraid utility to attempt to detect and configure my SATA 
>>RAID 0.  It recognized the volume, but seems to assume it uses a stripe 
>>size of 16 KB rather than using the value in the parameter block on the 
>>disk.  I ended up having to correct the stripe size to 64 KB using 
>>dmsetup by hand to get everything working.
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>>Is this a known bug,
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>No.
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>> and is there anything I can do to help fix it, such 
>>as supplying dumps of the bios parameter block when the raid is built 
>>with different sizes so the location of the stripe size can be found?
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>Yes.
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>'dmraid -rD' output (*.dat, *.size and *.offset files) tar'ed/bzip2'ed
>would be helpful.
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