dmraid and Intel se7230NH1-e Server Entry Board

[Roman Himmes]

Hi,

it seems that with the board above SATA Raid 1 with dmraid is not possible.
It uses the ICH7R (82801GR/GH) Chip to do SATA Software Raid. But the 
Board has instead of the Intel embedded RAID
Configuration tool (during bootup), one from LSI Logic. It supports 
RAID1 and 0 only.

Inside the raid system I created with WindowsXP one primary NTFS and one 
FAT32 partition, they are recognized by the kernel,
I can mount them, and can see the directory structure. After 
manipulation only the data from the first drive is shown.

I can access the Drives seperatly with the ahci driver. Here are poarts  
of the dmesg output:

Linux version 2.6.12 (root at Knoppix) (gcc-Version 3.3.6 (Debian 
1:3.3.6-7)) #2 SMP Tue Aug 9 23:20:52 CEST 2005
*snip*
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.2 to 64
ahci(0000:00:1f.2) AHCI 0001.0100 32 slots 4 ports 3 Gbps 0xf impl RAID 
mode
ahci(0000:00:1f.2) flags: 64bit ncq led clo pio slum part
ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xF8802100 ctl 0x0 bmdma 0x0 irq 19
ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xF8802180 ctl 0x0 bmdma 0x0 irq 19
ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xF8802200 ctl 0x0 bmdma 0x0 irq 19
ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xF8802280 ctl 0x0 bmdma 0x0 irq 19
ata1: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:346b 83:7d01 84:4023 85:3469 86:3c01 87:4023 
88:207f
ata1: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/133, 156301488 sectors: lba48
ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133
scsi0 : ahci
ata2: no device found (phy stat 00000000)
scsi1 : ahci
ata3: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:346b 83:7d01 84:4023 85:3469 86:3c01 87:4023 
88:207f
ata3: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/133, 156301488 sectors: lba48
ata3: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133
scsi2 : ahci
ata4: no device found (phy stat 00000000)
scsi3 : ahci
 Vendor: ATA       Model: ST3808110AS       Rev: 2AAA
 Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 05
 Vendor: ATA       Model: ST3808110AS       Rev: 2AAA
 Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 05
SCSI device sda: 156301488 512-byte hdwr sectors (80026 MB)
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
SCSI device sda: 156301488 512-byte hdwr sectors (80026 MB)
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
sda: sda1 sda2
Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
SCSI device sdb: 156301488 512-byte hdwr sectors (80026 MB)
SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back
SCSI device sdb: 156301488 512-byte hdwr sectors (80026 MB)
SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back
sdb: sdb1 sdb2
Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
*snip*

dmraid -rD -vvvvv gives following output:
ls

WARN: locking /var/lock/dmraid/.lock
NOTICE: skipping removable device /dev/hda
NOTICE: /dev/sda: asr     discovering
NOTICE: /dev/sda: hpt37x  discovering
NOTICE: /dev/sda: hpt45x  discovering
NOTICE: /dev/sda: isw     discovering
NOTICE: /dev/sda: jmicron discovering
NOTICE: /dev/sda: lsi     discovering
NOTICE: /dev/sda: nvidia  discovering
NOTICE: /dev/sda: pdc     discovering
NOTICE: /dev/sda: sil     discovering
NOTICE: /dev/sda: via     discovering
NOTICE: /dev/sdb: asr     discovering
NOTICE: /dev/sdb: hpt37x  discovering
NOTICE: /dev/sdb: hpt45x  discovering
NOTICE: /dev/sdb: isw     discovering
NOTICE: /dev/sdb: jmicron discovering
NOTICE: /dev/sdb: lsi     discovering
NOTICE: /dev/sdb: nvidia  discovering
NOTICE: /dev/sdb: pdc     discovering
NOTICE: /dev/sdb: sil     discovering
NOTICE: /dev/sdb: via     discovering
No RAID disks
WARN: unlocking /var/lock/dmraid/.lock

dmraid --version:

dmraid version:        1.0.0.rc11-pre1 (2006.04.11)
dmraid library version:    1.0.0.rc11-pre1 (2006.04.11)
device-mapper version:    4.4.0

Is there a chance for support for this system ?

Greetings,

Roman Himmes