Inconsistancies between 1.0.0.rc14 and 1.0.0.rc15 and Intel Software RAID metadata.

[Luke Yelavich]

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 10:54:16AM EST, Luke Yelavich wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 09:35:36AM EST, Phillip Susi wrote:
> > Luke Yelavich wrote:
> >> ERROR: isw: Could not find disk /dev/sdd in the metadata ERROR: isw:
> >> Could not find disk /dev/sdc in the metadata ERROR: isw: Could not
> >> find disk /dev/sdb in the metadata no raid disks
> >
> > This is probably because disks with serial numbers that match the  
> > physical disks detected were not found in the metadata.  A change was  
> > made between rc14 and rc15 that may cause this:
> >
> > In lib/device/scsi.c the function get_scsi_serial() had its call to  
> > remove_white_space() removed.  Interestingly the corresponding function  
> > get_ata_serial() still calls remove_white_space() which seems like an  
> > error.  I would say try putting the call back in and see if that fixes 
> > it.
> >
> > Also do you still have 14_isw-serial-fix.dpatch applied?
> 
> Its applied to rc14 but not rc15. I synced the debian package, and thought that change was made upstream. I'll re-apply and see what happens from there.

Ok after trying a newer debian revision of the debian dmraid package, one which I wasn't using earlier, things appear to be ok again. Seems it was just me not making sure I was using latest sources 
from debian.

Now to see if my BIOS will see dmraid created metadata.

/me slaps head.

Luke