Hello!
I've just installed a Mylex DAC960 controller driving 4 SCSI 9 Gb
drives into an Red Hat 5.2 Intel-based Linux (2.0.36) server.
After I built a custom kernel with the DAC960 2.0.0 beta 4 driver
(as found on the Dandelion Digital page), I was able to see my RAID
array show up as /dev/rd/c0d0.
I used fdisk (both the original as well as the staticly-linked version
as provided in the DAC960 utilities tarball) to set up partitions on
the array as follows:
Disk /dev/rd/c0d0: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 3330 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/rd/c0d0p1 1 765 6144831 83 Linux native
/dev/rd/c0d0p2 766 3330 20603362+ 5 Extended
/dev/rd/c0d0p5 766 1913 9221278+ 83 Linux native
/dev/rd/c0d0p6 1914 3262 10835811 83 Linux native
/dev/rd/c0d0p7 3263 3279 136521 82 Linux swap
/dev/rd/c0d0p8 3280 3296 136521 82 Linux swap
/dev/rd/c0d0p9 3297 3313 136521 82 Linux swap
/dev/rd/c0d0p10 3314 3330 136521 82 Linux swap
I see no difference between this partition configuration and any other
that I've set up for IDE or regular SCSI drives (except the incredible
size of the array). Yet, when I use fdisk's "V" command to verify the
partition table, I get the following errors:
Warning: partition 5 overlaps partition 6.
Warning: partition 6 overlaps partition 7.
Warning: partition 6 overlaps partition 8.
Warning: partition 7 overlaps partition 8.
Warning: partition 6 overlaps partition 9.
Warning: partition 7 overlaps partition 9.
Warning: partition 8 overlaps partition 9.
Warning: partition 6 overlaps partition 10.
Warning: partition 7 overlaps partition 10.
Warning: partition 8 overlaps partition 10.
Warning: partition 9 overlaps partition 10.
19406634 unallocated sectors
Am I doing something wrong? I don't want to load gigabytes of precious
data on the array only to find out I'm overwriting other file systems.
;-(
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
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