fedora Core 4 : dmraid doesnt detect Intel 6300ESB SATA RAID Software RAID sets

[Heinz Mauelshagen]

Dushyanth,

Ich5 is not (yet) supported.

Can you dd the last 100KB off each drive and tar+bzip2 them up, so that
I can have a look at the metadata ?

Heinz

On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 11:39:28PM +0530, Dushyanth Harinath wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a server with the below SATA RAID controller and i have 
> configured RAID 1 mirror in the BIOS using 2 SATA drives. Fedora core 4 
> install went smoothly [ Funny thing was that I had to type in 'linux 
> anything' at the installer boot prompt first and then type linux to get 
> the installer going. Read this workaround in some forum ]
> 
> 00:1f.2 RAID bus controller: Intel Corporation 6300ESB SATA RAID 
> Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 8f)
>         Subsystem: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 3451
>         Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 177
>         I/O ports at cf80 [size=8]
>         I/O ports at cf00 [size=4]
>         I/O ports at ce80 [size=8]
>         I/O ports at ce00 [size=4]
>         I/O ports at cd80 [size=16]
> 
> This RAID controller is supposed to be ICH5 chipset and supported by 
> dmraid but dmraid doesnt show me any software RAID sets.
> 
> [root at localhost ~]# dmraid -cs -vvvvvv
> WARN: locking /var/lock/dmraid/.lock
> NOTICE: /dev/sda: hpt37x discovering
> NOTICE: /dev/sda: hpt45x discovering
> NOTICE: /dev/sda: isw    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: hpt37x discovering
> NOTICE: /dev/sdb: hpt45x discovering
> NOTICE: /dev/sdb: isw    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 Software RAID disks
> WARN: unlocking /var/lock/dmraid/.lock
> 
> I also tried installing the latest device-mapper and dmraid by compiling 
> the source and i still get the same output. Below are the versions
> 
> [root at localhost ~]# dmsetup version
> Library version:   1.01.04 (2005-08-02)
> Driver version:    4.4.0
> 
> [root at localhost ~]# dmraid -V
> dmraid version:         1.0.0.rc8 (2005.05.19) debug
> dmraid library version: 1.0.0.rc8 (2005.05.19)
> device-mapper version:  4.4.0
> 
> How can i get RAID 1 configured on this (fakeraid) RAID controller ? 
> Does dmraid support it ? Please advice.
> 
> TIA
> Dushyanth
> 
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