Re: RAID5 producing fake partition table on single drive

2006-09-15 Thread Lem
On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 18:42 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Lem wrote: > > >On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 13:55 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: > > > > > > > >>May I belatedly say that this is sort-of a kernel issue, since > >>/proc/partitions reflects inva

Re: Correct way to create multiple RAID volumes with hot-spare?

2006-09-12 Thread Lem
for lilo). Perhaps with time I'll get lucky and the data in that particular part of the drive will be changed to something that looks nothing like a partition table :) Lem. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: RAID5 producing fake partition table on single drive

2006-09-09 Thread Lem
On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 13:55 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: > May I belatedly say that this is sort-of a kernel issue, since > /proc/partitions reflects invalid data? Perhaps a boot option like > nopart=sda,sdb or similar would be in order? Is this an argument to be passed to the kernel at boot tim

Re: SATA ontrollers and Linux MD

2006-08-31 Thread Lem
On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 20:31 -0700, Alex Davis wrote: > I'm currently using a Promise Technologies TX4300 SATA II 3.0GB/s controller, > to which are > connected 4 Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3320620AS 320GB drives. I've only had > this setup for > 2 weeks but so far I'm happy with it. The control

Re: RAID5 producing fake partition table on single drive

2006-08-29 Thread Lem
On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 13:46 +1000, Neil Brown wrote: > On Monday August 21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > This is where I'm having a problem - lilo fails due to the bogus > > partition table, here's the output: > > > > # lilo > > part_nowrite: read:: Input/output error > I think maybe lilo n

Re: RAID5 producing fake partition table on single drive

2006-08-21 Thread Lem
On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 17:35 +1000, Neil Brown wrote: > On Saturday August 19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm having a problem with my RAID5 array, here's the deal: > > > > System is an AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ on a Gigabyte K8NS-939-Ultra > > (nForce3 Ultra). Linux 2.6.17.7, x86_6

RAID5 producing fake partition table on single drive

2006-08-19 Thread Lem
te some help with this as I want to preserve the data on the array (naturally). Is it possible to fdisk one drive in the array at a time, create a proper partition table and a type 'fd' partition spanning the entire disk, then re-add it to the array? If any more information about my system is re