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PostPosted: Mon Jan 26, 2004 9:36 pm    Post subject: 2.6, promise pdc 20268 and dmsetup Reply with quote

I have a Promise 20268 with 2 80G Discs in a Stripe Set and searched the web over and over to find a solution to mount this set with kernel 2.6.1. Finally I stumbled over a post on the LKML which describes how to use dmsetup to create the device mapper device for accessing the Stripe Set. But now I'm stuck; All I can find is people telling, they managed to get it working, but nowhere they describe how they did it.

I've managed to create a device /dev/mapper/ataraid, which I can correctly fdisk:
Code:

# fdisk /dev/mapper/ataraid
Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/mapper/ataraid: 160.0 GB, 160052723712 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19458 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

              Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/mapper/ataraid1               1       19458   156296353+  83  Linux


This is exactly the same output like in 2.4 with the ataraid driver so it should be more or less correct, but now I don't know how to mount or mknod this /dev/mapper/ataraid1 because it's nonexistant.

Perhaps someone in here can help; I think it would also be interesting for a lot of other linux-users ...
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 04, 2004 9:30 pm    Post subject: kernel 2.6 ATARAID Reply with quote

Can you post a little howto on the way you manage to get the device mapped. I found the same tread on LKML and I did not manage to map the device.
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 27, 2004 10:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I just managed to get my PDC20271 (TX2000) to work.

Here's what I have:
* 2.6.3-gentoo-r1
* Promise TX2000
* two 40GB HD's, one partition (NTFS, whole disk)

Here's what I did:

1) install pdc202xx_new kernel module
after modprobe'ing pdc202xx_new I have now
Code:
    - /dev/hde  (first disk of raid-array)
    - /dev/hdg  (second disk of raid-array)


2) install device mapper
Code:
emerge device-mapper


3) re-compile kernel with device-mapper support
checked options "Device Mapper support" and "ioctl interface v4" in
Device Drivers --> Multi-device support

4) create a device for the raid-array
First we need a mapping file for dmsetup:
Code:
echo 0 $(expr $(blockdev --getsize /dev/hde) '*' 2) striped 2 128 /dev/hde 0 /dev/hdg 0 > devmap.raid

my RAID consists of two disk's (/dev/hde and /dev/hdg) and is a stripe.
the size of a chunk is 65KB -> 128 sectors. see "man dmsetup" for a description
of the mapping-file.
the file should look something like this:
Code:
0 156330720 striped 2 128 /dev/hde 0 /dev/hdg 0


now create a device for the RAID
Code:
dmsetup create raid0 devmap.raid0

the new mapped device will be placed in /dev/mapper/raid0

5) create devices for the partitions
sfdisk gives us the details:
Code:
sfdisk -d /dev/mapper/raid0

should print something like this:
Code:
# partition table of /dev/mapper/raid0
unit: sectors

/dev/mapper/raid0p1 : start=       63, size=156328452, Id= 7, bootable
/dev/mapper/raid0p2 : start=        0, size=        0, Id= 0
/dev/mapper/raid0p3 : start=        0, size=        0, Id= 0
/dev/mapper/raid0p4 : start=        0, size=        0, Id= 0


So create another mapping file for each partition, in my case this is just
one file (I named it devmap.raid0p1)

Code:
# start  size       type    destination         start
  0      156328452  linear  /dev/mapper/raid0   63

'start' and 'size' should be the values from sfdisk above

...and create a device for this partition:
Code:
dmsetup create raid0p1 devmap.raid0p1


...and finally
Code:
mount -t ntfs /dev/mapper/raid0p1 /mnt/RAID0


hope that helps

-robert :wink:
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 27, 2004 10:56 pm    Post subject: Perfect !!! Reply with quote

this works like a charm ... very good work and thanks a lot.

I think this post should go somewhere into the faq or docs, because I think there are more then one interested in this solution.
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 28, 2004 12:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Just a Q:

What needs to be done to retain this info after booting?
Edit the fstab?
Or do I need to do more?
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 28, 2004 8:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

first - thanx for the info.

would this solution also work when trying to switch from a 2.4 kernel (with working ataraid (promise)) to a 2.6 kernel?

I might not have understood completely how this is can be done 8O, but if anyone suceeded, please let me know.

thx a lot in advance!
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 28, 2004 12:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

tychop wrote:
What needs to be done to retain this info after booting?
Edit the fstab?
Or do I need to do more?


The first step I did was to add a script to /etc/init.d called ataraid0
which will create the mappings on boot.

Code:
#!/sbin/runscript

depend() {
   need modules
}

start() {
   ebegin "Initializing software mapped RAID devices"
   /etc/stripemaps/stripe-mapper.sh /etc/stripemaps/*.devmap
   eend $? "Error initializing software mapped RAID devices"
}

stop() {
   ebegin "Removing software mapped RAID devices"
   dmsetup remove_all
   eend $? "Failed to remove software mapped RAID devices."
}


this script assumes the mapping-files (*.devmap) and a script called
stripe-mapper.sh in /etc/stripemaps

Here is stripe-mapper.sh (please forgive my poor sh- and awk-knowledge...)
Code:
#!/bin/sh

SELF=`basename $0`

if [[ $# < 1 || $1 == "--help" ]]
then
   echo usage: $SELF mapping-file
   exit 1;
fi

# setup vars for mapping-file, device-name and devce-path
FNAME=$1
NAME=`basename $FNAME .devmap`
DEV=/dev/mapper/$NAME

# create device using device-mapper
dmsetup create $NAME $FNAME

if [[ ! -b $DEV ]]
then
   echo $SELF: could not map device: $DEV
   exit 1;
fi

# create a linear mapping for each partition
sfdisk -l -uS $DEV | awk '/^\// {   
   start = $3;size = $5;
   if ( size == 0 ) next;
   base = substr($1,0,length($1)-2);
   part = substr($1,length($1)-1);
   ("basename "  $1) | getline dev;
   print 0, size, "linear", base, start | ("dmsetup create " dev); }'


the script assumes mapping-files of the form device.devmap and
first creates a mapping for the whole disk: /dev/mapper/device
and a mapping for each partition: /dev/mapper/devicep1, /dev/mapper/devicep2, ...

then add the script to boot runlevel
Code:
rc-update add ataraid0 boot


and test it:
Code:
/etc/init.d/ataraid0 start


the devices for the partitions should be now in /dev/mapper

The second step is (as you mentioned) to edit fstab and append
a line for each partition on the disk, for example:
Code:
/dev/mapper/raid0p1  /mnt/RAID0  ntfs  noatime,ro  0 0


WARNING: i haven't tested the scripts a lot before posting them here, especially with disks having more than one partition !
also putting scripts in /etc is not a good idea, maybe /bin or even /sbin would be better.

-robert
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 28, 2004 12:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

dotcom wrote:
first - thanx for the info.

would this solution also work when trying to switch from a 2.4 kernel (with working ataraid (promise)) to a 2.6 kernel?

I might not have understood completely how this is can be done 8O, but if anyone suceeded, please let me know.

thx a lot in advance!


I switched from 2.4 (SuSE) which detected my TX2000 without any problems to 2.6.3 gentoo. As i understand the device-mapper does much the same in 2.6 as ataraid did in 2.4 (except that it's now in user-mode I think) so There-Should-Be-No Problem(TM) ;)

If you try to INSTALL gentoo on a IDE-RAID, that would be something different...

-robert
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 28, 2004 7:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi Robert,
thx again. I think I am getting closer to understand devicemapping. :?

Just one more question - how about grub/lilo boot/kernel parameters?

Would it look like...
Code:

e.g. grub
boot hd(0,x)
kernel hd(0,x) /boot/bzImage.whatever root=/dev/mapper/raid0py

...for a system booting from ataraid partitions?
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 28, 2004 8:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

dotcom wrote:
Hi Robert,
thx again. I think I am getting closer to understand devicemapping. :?

Just one more question - how about grub/lilo boot/kernel parameters?

Would it look like...
Code:

e.g. grub
boot hd(0,x)
kernel hd(0,x) /boot/bzImage.whatever root=/dev/mapper/raid0py

...for a system booting from ataraid partitions?


unfortunately not. booting from software-raids would need a little bit more magic (at leats from a raid0, raid1 should work though)
because the /dev/mapper/whatsoever device is created by the devicemapper (which is in or loaded by the kernel) its not accessible to grub.
grub knows something about the physical drives+partitions in the system (from the BIOS) and a few about filesystems but nothing of device-mapping I fear.

maybe using initrd (booting from a ramdisk) would be a solution here,
but I have no expirience with that :(

-robert
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 02, 2004 6:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Quote:
So create another mapping file for each partition, in my case this is just
one file (I named it devmap.raid0p1)

Code:
# start size type destination start
0 156328452 linear /dev/mapper/raid0 63

'start' and 'size' should be the values from sfdisk above

...and create a device for this partition:
Code:
dmsetup create raid0p1 devmap.raid0p1



Vlad_tepes, great work, I have one question what command are you using to create devmap.raid0p1. I created 2 partitions but I don't know what needs to passed to the dmsetup command to create the 2 additional devmap files.
here is my config

Code:
# partition table of /dev/mapper/raid0
unit: sectors
 
/dev/mapper/raid0p1 : start=       63, size=585954747, Id=83
/dev/mapper/raid0p2 : start=585954810, size=390829320, Id=83
/dev/mapper/raid0p3 : start=        0, size=        0, Id= 0
/dev/mapper/raid0p4 : start=        0, size=        0, Id= 0


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PostPosted: Fri Apr 02, 2004 8:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

OK, well I'm getting a little farther but I have hit road block, not sure where I went wrong, Would somebody fix me up. Thanks
Here is what I have done

Code:
sfdisk -d /dev/mapper/raid0
# partition table of /dev/mapper/raid0
unit: sectors
 
/dev/mapper/raid0p1 : start=       63, size=585954747, Id=83
/dev/mapper/raid0p2 : start=585954810, size=390829320, Id=83
/dev/mapper/raid0p3 : start=        0, size=        0, Id= 0
/dev/mapper/raid0p4 : start=        0, size=        0, Id= 0
digital_linux root # echo -ne '0 585954747 linear /dev/mapper/raid0 63' > devmap.raid0p1
digital_linux root # dmsetup create raid0p1 devmap.raid0p1
device-mapper ioctl cmd 3 failed: Device or resource busy
Command failed
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 5:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well, at least this helped me a little more in getting my HPT370-Raid working with the 2.6 kernel... But still it doesn't work really :(

Everything worked and I can mount the raid-Partition. So I was quite happy to see it working, but then I looked into some directories, and besides the files which should be there, there were many trashy files (àla %$??ÄÄÄ"§.??? ;)), and of course I couldn't access any files...

I thought it might be that I've got a different cluster size (32KB), so I tried to change it in devmap.raid0 from 128 to 64, but then I couldn't even mount the partition...

Any ideas what it could be, or what else I could try? Would be very nice to get the raid working under 2.6, because 160GB of space more or less aren't something I would like to waste ;)

Code:

kileak raid # cat devmap.raid0
0       312736032 striped 2 128 /dev/hde 0 /dev/hdg 0

kileak raid # cat devmap.raid0p1
0       163846872       linear  /dev/mapper/raid0       63

kileak raid # cat devmap.raid0p2
0       148874355     linear  /dev/mapper/raid0       163846935

kileak raid # sfdisk -d /dev/mapper/raid0
# partition table of /dev/mapper/raid0
unit: sectors

/dev/mapper/raid0p1 : start=       63, size=163846872, Id= c
/dev/mapper/raid0p2 : start=163846935, size=148874355, Id= c
/dev/mapper/raid0p3 : start=        0, size=        0, Id= 0
/dev/mapper/raid0p4 : start=        0, size=        0, Id= 0
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 15, 2004 8:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Kileak wrote:
Well, at least this helped me a little more in getting my HPT370-Raid working with the 2.6 kernel... But still it doesn't work really :(

Everything worked and I can mount the raid-Partition. So I was quite happy to see it working, but then I looked into some directories, and besides the files which should be there, there were many trashy files (àla %$??ÄÄÄ"§.??? ;)), and of course I couldn't access any files...

I thought it might be that I've got a different cluster size (32KB), so I tried to change it in devmap.raid0 from 128 to 64, but then I couldn't even mount the partition...

Any ideas what it could be, or what else I could try? Would be very nice to get the raid working under 2.6, because 160GB of space more or less aren't something I would like to waste ;)


have you verified the chunk size of your raid? which filesystem do you use on these two partitions?
my first steps with this failed because i configured the wrong chunk-size. i think you could even mount a fat-partition with a incorrect chunk-size as long as the fat (the meta-information for the filesystem itself) fits in one chunk (or so...).

what's the output of fsck on these two partitions?
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 17, 2004 8:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well, the chunk-size is 32K and the fs is FAT32...

But I already tried to use 8,16,32,64,128,256 as chunk size (just to be sure ;)) and nothing worked... If I enter a chunk size less than 128 I can't even mount it, and if I choose >= 128 I can mount the partitions, but the filesystem is just trash...

Could the mistake be somewhere else?

Code:
kileak raid # ls /dev/hde*
/dev/hde  /dev/hde1  /dev/hde2
kileak raid # ls /dev/hdg*
/dev/hdg


if I choose a chunk size of 64 dmesg gives me

Code:
FAT: Did not find valid FSINFO signature.
     Found signature1 0x00000000 signature2 0x00000000 (sector = 1)
FAT: invalid first entry of FAT (0xffffff8 != 0x1b01)
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev dm-1.


everything less 64 gives

Code:
FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev dm-3.
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 18, 2004 9:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Kileak wrote:
Well, the chunk-size is 32K and the fs is FAT32...

But I already tried to use 8,16,32,64,128,256 as chunk size (just to be sure ;)) and nothing worked... If I enter a chunk size less than 128 I can't even mount it, and if I choose >= 128 I can mount the partitions, but the filesystem is just trash...

Could the mistake be somewhere else?

Code:
kileak raid # ls /dev/hde*
/dev/hde  /dev/hde1  /dev/hde2
kileak raid # ls /dev/hdg*
/dev/hdg


if I choose a chunk size of 64 dmesg gives me

Code:
FAT: Did not find valid FSINFO signature.
     Found signature1 0x00000000 signature2 0x00000000 (sector = 1)
FAT: invalid first entry of FAT (0xffffff8 != 0x1b01)
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev dm-1.


everything less 64 gives

Code:
FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev dm-3.


sorry, i am at the end of my knowledge...
but a few more questions:
- can you access the filesystem from DOS or Windows without errors?
- Did you make the Filesystem through DOS/Windows or through Linux/mkfs?
- How do you mount the filesystem (which options)?

I think this is not a problem of device-mapping. Maybe the filesystem is damaged. There are also a lot of posts telling about problems with the HPT37x chip.

sorry, can't help...

-robert
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 18, 2004 9:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

vlad_tepes wrote:

but a few more questions:
- can you access the filesystem from DOS or Windows without errors?
- Did you make the Filesystem through DOS/Windows or through Linux/mkfs?
- How do you mount the filesystem (which options)?


well, no problem in win. but i created the fs with partition magic, since windows couldn't create 80GB FAT32 partitions, maybe this is the problem?
but i had no problems with kernel 2.4.25 and the hpt370 software raid moudle...

to mount the partitions i made the following entry in /etc/fstab

Code:

/dev/mapper/raid0p1   /mnt/raid/part1   vfat      users,exec,rw,noauto,gid=users,umask=0002 0 0
/dev/mapper/raid0p2   /mnt/raid/part2   auto      users,exec,rw,noauto,gid=users,umask=0002 0 0


vlad_tepes wrote:
sorry, can't help...

-robert

well, thanks anyway :)
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 24, 2004 12:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Kileak wrote:
vlad_tepes wrote:

but a few more questions:
- can you access the filesystem from DOS or Windows without errors?
- Did you make the Filesystem through DOS/Windows or through Linux/mkfs?
- How do you mount the filesystem (which options)?


well, no problem in win. but i created the fs with partition magic, since windows couldn't create 80GB FAT32 partitions, maybe this is the problem?
but i had no problems with kernel 2.4.25 and the hpt370 software raid moudle...

to mount the partitions i made the following entry in /etc/fstab

Code:

/dev/mapper/raid0p1   /mnt/raid/part1   vfat      users,exec,rw,noauto,gid=users,umask=0002 0 0
/dev/mapper/raid0p2   /mnt/raid/part2   auto      users,exec,rw,noauto,gid=users,umask=0002 0 0


vlad_tepes wrote:
sorry, can't help...

-robert

well, thanks anyway :)


i tried to do this on a highpoint 372 setup with 4 (maxtor80gb) disks attached,

tried 16->128 chunks...only 128 produced devices which i could mount..but didnt seem valid filesystems
eventho, when i check in fdisk, all chunksizes produce the correct partitiontable(2partitions, 1 ntfs and 1ext3)
this is what my raid0 looks like:
0 960486912 striped 4 64 /dev/hde 0 /dev/hdf 0 /dev/hdg 0 /dev/hdh 0


# sfdisk -d /dev/mapper/raid0
# partition table of /dev/mapper/raid0
unit: sectors

/dev/mapper/raid0p1 : start=550884915, size=409593240, Id= 7
/dev/mapper/raid0p2 : start= 63, size=550884852, Id=83
/dev/mapper/raid0p3 : start= 0, size= 0, Id= 0
/dev/mapper/raid0p4 : start= 0, size= 0, Id= 0

so my raid0p1 looks like:
0 409593240 linear /dev/mapper/raid0 550884915
and raid0p2 is:
0 550884852 linear /dev/mapper/raid0 63

no success so far.. if anyone gets it working on a highpoint controller, plz let me know :)
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 24, 2004 10:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I love linux but what i hate is my raid controller :-(

After spending 2 days surfing through forums and other infos, setting up ataraid and later device-mapper ...

WHY THE HELL is there no solution:
the situation:

2x 120GB WD Stripe Set Promise onboard Raid.

Windows can boot from this.
Bootloaders supportet by linux fail :-(

You always need to load device-mapper or other scripts before accessing the disk array ... why the hell is windows able to do this and linux not ... i'm sure there is a way but its tooo complex or is there no way ?

After 3 days I am no going to give it up and do a normal 2 disk dual boot system. one disk linux and the other is win

If there is a solution out there without using a third disk so please tell me :!:
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 25, 2004 9:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I used this method on my Silicon Image Sil 3112 SATA RAID and got it working quite well, i have been getting some strange errors when putting the array under heavy load.
I've tryed both the siimage module and the sata_sil module that uses libata. The siimage module tended to lockup quite a bit so i'm currently using the sata_sil module although it adds the drives as scsi devices which means i can't use some SMART features such as hddtemp or many of hdparm's features. :/

I've edited vlad_tepe's script to create the devmaps so that it works with multiple partitions, but my bash scripting knowledge is very poor so i won't post it unless anyone requests.


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PostPosted: Thu Apr 29, 2004 3:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi I've followed this thread with much interest as I have a Promise pdc20271 controller and 2 200 gigabyte hard drives that are setup in a raid1 mirror with data already on them.

However, I'm having trouble figuring out what are the proper options to set in the table for dmsetup

I have /dev/hde and /dev/hdg which are identical in size.

Any help is greatly appreciated,

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PostPosted: Fri Jun 11, 2004 2:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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no success so far.. if anyone gets it working on a highpoint controller, plz let me know :)

I got it working on my HPT374 after browsing the source code for the 2.4 kernel's ataraid/hptraid driver. I found this little piece of info.
drivers/ide/raid/hptraid.c wrote:
/* All but the first disk have a 10 sector offset */
if (i>0)
bh->b_rsector+=10;

So, I adjusted my devmap files accordingly.
Code:
# cat devmap.raid0
0 312602720 striped 2 128 /dev/hde 0 /dev/hdg 10

# cat devmap.raid0p1
0 61432496 linear /dev/mapper/raid0 63

I can now mount this NTFS partition without getting errors. :D
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 14, 2004 3:53 pm    Post subject: Thank you... Reply with quote

Thank you...

For the last three month I have tried to get my Promise PDC20271 Controller in RAID mode 0 (stripe) under Linux to work. I even mailed the Promise support, but they sait that it is impossible at the moment.

By the way, your little how-to is one of the best I have ever read. No joke! It's easy to understand and you can follow everything step by step!


THANK YOU
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 15, 2004 10:14 am    Post subject: modprobe doesn't work Reply with quote

hey,
I use a 2.6.6-rc1 kernel,
in proc/pci i have:
RAID bus controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20276 IDE (rev 1).

But following your howto I can't get modprobe pdc202xx_new working, it says
FATAL: module pdc202xx_new not found.
How do i get the module ? is it because of kernel 2.6.6 ?
I'd like a bit of guidance.

- Christian
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 16, 2004 2:15 am    Post subject: Stuck on step one :( Reply with quote

I have 2x80gig hard drives (hde and hdg) in a raid0 array. This array is then split into 3 seperate paritions, I have been following the instructions, and first ran :

Code:
echo 0 $(expr $(blockdev --getsize /dev/hde) '*' 2) striped 2 128 /dev/hde 0 /dev/hdg 0 > devmap.raid


This gave me a file 'devmap.raid' containing the following:

    0 312711168 striped 2 128 /dev/hde 0 /dev/hdg 0


So far so good, but when I try and activate this I get an error:
    dmsetup create raid0 devmap.raid
    device-mapper ioctl cmd 9 failed: No such device or address
    Command failed


Could anyone suggest what I might be doing wrong? The devices hde and hdg are there, so I'm not sure why it says no such device and so on :?

Much appreciated,

Steven Craft
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