[mauelshagen at redhat.com: Re: dm-raid Question:]

Heinz Mauelshagen mauelshagen at redhat.com
Wed Nov 8 18:17:10 UTC 2006


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From: Heinz Mauelshagen <mauelshagen at redhat.com>
To: Jeremy Moles <jeremy at emperorlinux.com>
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Subject: Re: dm-raid Question:
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On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 01:06:10PM -0500, Jeremy Moles wrote:
> Heyas, this is Jeremy over at EmperorLinux. I hate to e-mail you

Hi.

> directly, but it wasn't immediately clear how to register for the lists.
> It was mentioned a few times in various google searches, but I never
> actually found it.
> 
> At any rate:
> 
> I have a new Sony BX670 here with two 100GB hard drives that are
> "software raided" (RAID1, according to the BIOS) using the Intel Matrix
> Storage Manager. I've built dmraid and have--what I believe--to be an
> appropriately configured 2.6.15.6 kernel.
> 
> So far, dmraid is able to recognize that "something" is going on, but
> when I try and activate the raid (using "dmraid -an") I get:
> 
> device-mapper: dm-linear: Invalid argument count
> device-mapper: error adding target to table

Hrm, a kernel/userspace missmatch.
Please provide the output of "dmraid -V ; dmraid -tay".

Regards,
Heinz

> 
> A file is created regardless in /dev/mapper, though I'm not able to do
> anything with it. If I might not mistaken, I should get one new block
> device per partition in /dev/mapper, right?
> 
> Is there anything you can recommend I try before writing this off?
> 
> P.S. I've attched the output of dmesg, dmraid -s, and fdisk -l if that
> helps.

> Linux version 2.6.15.6 (jeremy at quadxeon) (gcc version 3.3.6 (Debian 1:3.3.6-7)) #5 Wed Nov 8 12:47:54 EST 2006
> BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
>  BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009cc00 (usable)
>  BIOS-e820: 000000000009cc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
>  BIOS-e820: 00000000000dc000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
>  BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000003fe80000 (usable)
>  BIOS-e820: 000000003fe80000 - 000000003ff00000 (ACPI NVS)
>  BIOS-e820: 000000003ff00000 - 0000000040000000 (reserved)
>  BIOS-e820: 00000000e0000000 - 00000000f0000000 (reserved)
>  BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec10000 (reserved)
>  BIOS-e820: 00000000fed14000 - 00000000fed1a000 (reserved)
>  BIOS-e820: 00000000fed1c000 - 00000000fed90000 (reserved)
>  BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
>  BIOS-e820: 00000000ff000000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
> 126MB HIGHMEM available.
> 896MB LOWMEM available.
> found SMP MP-table at 000f6da0
> On node 0 totalpages: 261760
>   DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:0
>   DMA32 zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:0
>   Normal zone: 225280 pages, LIFO batch:31
>   HighMem zone: 32384 pages, LIFO batch:7
> DMI present.
> ACPI: RSDP (v000 PTLTD                                 ) @ 0x000f6cf0
> ACPI: RSDT (v001   SONY       X7 0x20060911  LTP 0x00000000) @ 0x3fe84c35
> ACPI: FADT (v002   SONY       X7 0x20060911 LOHR 0x0000005a) @ 0x3fe8be48
> ACPI: MADT (v001   SONY       X7 0x20060911 LOHR 0x0000005a) @ 0x3fe8becc
> ACPI: MCFG (v001   SONY       X7 0x20060911 LOHR 0x0000005a) @ 0x3fe8bf34
> ACPI: MADT (v001   SONY       X7 0x20060911  LTP 0x00000000) @ 0x3fe8bf70
> ACPI: BOOT (v001   SONY       X7 0x20060911  LTP 0x00000001) @ 0x3fe8bfd8
> ACPI: SSDT (v001   SONY       X7 0x20060911 INTL 0x20050624) @ 0x3fe84c71
> ACPI: DSDT (v001   SONY       X7 0x20060911 MSFT 0x02000002) @ 0x00000000
> ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x1008
> ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
> ACPI: 2 duplicate APIC table ignored.
> ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
> Processor #0 6:15 APIC version 20
> ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x01] enabled)
> Processor #1 6:15 APIC version 20
> WARNING: NR_CPUS limit of 1 reached.  Processor ignored.
> ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x00] high edge lint[0x1])
> ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x01] high edge lint[0x1])
> ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x01] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])
> IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 1 already used, trying 2
> IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 2, version 32, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23
> ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl)
> ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 high level)
> ACPI: IRQ0 used by override.
> ACPI: IRQ2 used by override.
> ACPI: IRQ9 used by override.
> Enabling APIC mode:  Flat.  Using 1 I/O APICs
> Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
> Allocating PCI resources starting at 50000000 (gap: 40000000:a0000000)
> Built 1 zonelists
> Kernel command line: load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 ramdisk_size=131072 rw root=/dev/ram0 initrd=empclone.ird.jeremy.dm video=vesafb vga=791 BOOT_IMAGE=vmlinuz.jeremy.dm 
> mapped APIC to ffffd000 (fee00000)
> mapped IOAPIC to ffffc000 (fec00000)
> Initializing CPU#0
> PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 65536 bytes)
> Detected 2000.604 MHz processor.
> Using pmtmr for high-res timesource
> Console: colour dummy device 80x25
> Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
> Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
> Memory: 1020368k/1047040k available (1364k kernel code, 26040k reserved, 584k data, 140k init, 129536k highmem)
> Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
> Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 4007.00 BogoMIPS (lpj=8014016)
> Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
> CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfebfbff 20100000 00000000 00000000 0000e3bd 00000000 00000001
> CPU: After vendor identify, caps: bfebfbff 20100000 00000000 00000000 0000e3bd 00000000 00000001
> monitor/mwait feature present.
> using mwait in idle threads.
> CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K
> CPU: L2 cache: 4096K
> CPU: After all inits, caps: bfebfbff 20100000 00000000 00000040 0000e3bd 00000000 00000001
> CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU         T7200  @ 2.00GHz stepping 06
> Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
> Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
> Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
> Checking for popad bug... OK.
> ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
> ..TIMER: vector=0x31 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1
> checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (no cpio magic); looks like an initrd
> Freeing initrd memory: 14690k freed
> NET: Registered protocol family 16
> ACPI: bus type pci registered
> PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd8c2, last bus=11
> PCI: Using MMCONFIG
> ACPI: Subsystem revision 20050902
> ACPI: Interpreter enabled
> ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing
> ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
> PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
> PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 0000:00:1f.1
> Boot video device is 0000:01:00.0
> PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PEGP._PRT]
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.RP01._PRT]
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.RP02._PRT]
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.RP03._PRT]
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PCIB._PRT]
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 *7 10 12 14 15)
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 11 12 14 15) *10
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 1 *3 4 5 6 7 10 12 14 15)
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 11 12 14 15) *10
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 *10 12 14 15)
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 11 12 14 15) *10
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 *10 12 14 15)
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 11 12 14 15)
> ACPI: Embedded Controller [EC0] (gpe 23)
> PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
> PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq".  If it helps, post a report
> PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:01.0
>   IO window: 2000-2fff
>   MEM window: b0100000-b01fffff
>   PREFETCH window: c8000000-cfffffff
> PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1c.0
>   IO window: 3000-3fff
>   MEM window: b4000000-b7ffffff
>   PREFETCH window: d0000000-d3ffffff
> PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1c.1
>   IO window: 4000-4fff
>   MEM window: b8000000-bbffffff
>   PREFETCH window: d4000000-d7ffffff
> PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1c.2
>   IO window: 5000-5fff
>   MEM window: bc000000-bfffffff
>   PREFETCH window: d8000000-dbffffff
> PCI: Bus 11, cardbus bridge: 0000:0a:09.0
>   IO window: 00006400-000064ff
>   IO window: 00006800-000068ff
>   PREFETCH window: 50000000-51ffffff
>   MEM window: 54000000-55ffffff
> PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1e.0
>   IO window: 6000-6fff
>   MEM window: c0000000-c00fffff
>   PREFETCH window: 50000000-52ffffff
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:01.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
> PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:01.0 to 64
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1c.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
> PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.0 to 64
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1c.1[B] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
> PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.1 to 64
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1c.2[C] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
> PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.2 to 64
> PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1e.0 to 64
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:0a:09.0[A] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
> Simple Boot Flag at 0x35 set to 0x1
> highmem bounce pool size: 64 pages
> Initializing Cryptographic API
> io scheduler noop registered
> io scheduler cfq registered
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:01.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
> PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:01.0 to 64
> assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
> Allocate Port Service[pcie00]
> Allocate Port Service[pcie03]
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1c.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
> PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.0 to 64
> assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
> Allocate Port Service[pcie00]
> Allocate Port Service[pcie02]
> Allocate Port Service[pcie03]
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1c.1[B] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
> PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.1 to 64
> assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
> Allocate Port Service[pcie00]
> Allocate Port Service[pcie02]
> Allocate Port Service[pcie03]
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1c.2[C] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
> PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.2 to 64
> assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
> Allocate Port Service[pcie00]
> Allocate Port Service[pcie02]
> Allocate Port Service[pcie03]
> vesafb: framebuffer at 0xc8000000, mapped to 0xf8880000, using 3072k, total 16384k
> vesafb: mode is 1024x768x16, linelength=2048, pages=9
> vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:aeac
> vesafb: scrolling: redraw
> vesafb: Truecolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0
> vesafb: Mode is VGA compatible
> Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48
> fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
> serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
> serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
> RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 131072K size 1024 blocksize
> Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 6.1.16-k2
> Copyright (c) 1999-2005 Intel Corporation.
> e100: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver, 3.4.14-k4-NAPI
> e100: Copyright(c) 1999-2005 Intel Corporation
> mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
> md: linear personality registered as nr 1
> md: raid0 personality registered as nr 2
> md: raid1 personality registered as nr 3
> md: md driver 0.90.3 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
> md: bitmap version 4.39
> device-mapper: 4.4.0-ioctl (2005-01-12) initialised: dm-devel at redhat.com
> NET: Registered protocol family 2
> IP route cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
> TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
> TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
> TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536)
> TCP reno registered
> TCP bic registered
> Using IPI Shortcut mode
> input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0
> md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
> md: autorun ...
> md: ... autorun DONE.
> RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
> EXT2-fs warning: maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck is recommended
> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 140k freed
> NET: Registered protocol family 1
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:00.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
> sk98lin: Network Device Driver v8.31.2.3
> (C)Copyright 1999-2006 Marvell(R).
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:00.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
> PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:03:00.0 to 64
> eth0: Marvell Yukon 88E8055 Gigabit Ethernet Controller
>       PrefPort:A  RlmtMode:Check Link State
> NET: Registered protocol family 17
> eth0: network connection up using port A
>     speed:           1000
>     autonegotiation: yes
>     duplex mode:     full
>     flowctrl:        symmetric
>     role:            master
>     irq moderation:  disabled
>     tcp offload:     disabled
>     scatter-gather:  enabled
>     tx-checksum:     enabled
>     rx-checksum:     enabled
> SCSI subsystem initialized
> libata version 1.20 loaded.
> ahci 0000:00:1f.2: version 1.2
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.2[B] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 20
> PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.2 to 64
> ahci 0000:00:1f.2: AHCI 0001.0100 32 slots 4 ports 1.5 Gbps 0x5 impl RAID mode
> ahci 0000:00:1f.2: flags: 64bit ncq pm led clo pio slum part 
> ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xF8836500 ctl 0x0 bmdma 0x0 irq 20
> ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xF8836580 ctl 0x0 bmdma 0x0 irq 20
> ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xF8836600 ctl 0x0 bmdma 0x0 irq 20
> ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xF8836680 ctl 0x0 bmdma 0x0 irq 20
> ata1: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:346b 83:7d09 84:6003 85:3469 86:3c09 87:6003 88:207f
> ata1: dev 0 ATA-7, max UDMA/133, 195371568 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 83:7d09 84:6003 85:3469 86:3c09 87:6003 88:207f
> ata3: dev 0 ATA-7, max UDMA/133, 195371568 sectors: LBA48
> ata3: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133
> scsi2 : ahci
> ata4: no device found (phy stat 00000000)
> scsi3 : ahci
>   Vendor: ATA       Model: ST9100824AS       Rev: 3.14
>   Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 05
> SCSI device sda: 195371568 512-byte hdwr sectors (100030 MB)
> SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
> SCSI device sda: 195371568 512-byte hdwr sectors (100030 MB)
> SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
>  sda: sda1 sda2
> sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda
>   Vendor: ATA       Model: ST9100824AS       Rev: 3.14
>   Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 05
> SCSI device sdb: 195371568 512-byte hdwr sectors (100030 MB)
> SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back
> SCSI device sdb: 195371568 512-byte hdwr sectors (100030 MB)
> SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back
>  sdb: unknown partition table
> sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sdb
> device-mapper: dm-linear: Invalid argument count
> device-mapper: error adding target to table
> device-mapper: dm-linear: Invalid argument count
> device-mapper: error adding target to table
> device-mapper: dm-linear: Invalid argument count
> device-mapper: error adding target to table
> device-mapper: dm-linear: Invalid argument count
> device-mapper: error adding target to table
> device-mapper: dm-linear: Invalid argument count
> device-mapper: error adding target to table
> device-mapper: dm-linear: Invalid argument count
> device-mapper: error adding target to table
> device-mapper: dm-linear: Invalid argument count
> device-mapper: error adding target to table
> device-mapper: dm-linear: Invalid argument count
> device-mapper: error adding target to table


> 
> Disk /dev/sda: 100.0 GB, 100030242816 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 12161 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> 
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1               1         784     6297448+  12  Compaq diagnostics
> /dev/sda2   *         785       24321   189060952+   7  HPFS/NTFS
> 
> Disk /dev/sdb: 100.0 GB, 100030242816 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 12161 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> 

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