Re: [leaf-user] HighPoint RocketRAID 174x (need help in formating/mounting the RAID)

2007-12-04 Thread Adam Niedzwiedzki
Hi all, I managed to compile the rr174x.o module for my RAID card, so far so good, I've now got an issue with formatting the raid (I'm sure this is due to me being a complete n00b). Long story short I'm trying to build up a very simple NAS based off a bering-uclibc install on a bootable USB stick

Re: [leaf-user] HighPoint RocketRAID 174x (need help in formating/mounting the RAID)

2007-12-05 Thread Dirk Gfroerer
Adam Niedzwiedzki wrote: > The issue is formatting the RAID, > I just assumed I would fdisk /dev/sdb and create a single primary partition > of type linux, then mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda1 and then just mount it, so I tried > that and this is where things went a little south. I hope this is a typo and you

Re: [leaf-user] HighPoint RocketRAID 174x (need help in formating/mounting the RAID)

2007-12-05 Thread Adam Niedzwiedzki
<4> I/O error: dev 41:e0, sector 0 <4> unable to read partition table <4>sdaf : sector size 0 reported, assuming 512. <4>SCSI device sdaf: 1 512-byte hdwr sectors (0 MB) <6> sdaf: I/O error: dev 41:f0, sector 0 <4> I/O error: dev 41:f0, sector 0 <4> unable

Re: [leaf-user] HighPoint RocketRAID 174x (need help in formating/mounting the RAID)

2007-12-05 Thread Adam Niedzwiedzki
Adam Niedzwiedzki Cc: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [leaf-user] HighPoint RocketRAID 174x (need help in formating/mounting the RAID) -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adam Niedzwiedzki wrote: > Invaild argument happens when I try and mount the /dev/s

Re: [leaf-user] HighPoint RocketRAID 174x (need help in formating/mounting the RAID)

2007-12-05 Thread Dirk Gfroerer
Adam Niedzwiedzki wrote: > Ohh sorry should have noted that > > I tried both ways.. > nas# mount -t ext3 /dev/sdb /mnt > mount: Mounting /dev/sdb on /mnt failed: No such device > and > nas# mount -t ext3 /dev/sdb1 /mnt > mount: Mounting /dev/sdb1 on /mnt failed: No such device well, "no such devic

Re: [leaf-user] HighPoint RocketRAID 174x (need help in formating/mounting the RAID)

2007-12-05 Thread Adam Niedzwiedzki
einkuehler Sent: Thursday, 6 December 2007 10:02 AM To: Adam Niedzwiedzki Cc: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [leaf-user] HighPoint RocketRAID 174x (need help in formating/mounting the RAID) -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adam Niedzwiedzki wrote: > Hi Charles, > &

Re: [leaf-user] HighPoint RocketRAID 174x (need help in formating/mounting the RAID)

2007-12-05 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adam Niedzwiedzki wrote: > Invaild argument happens when I try and mount the /dev/sbd1 with out > specifying the filesystem type. > > nas# fdisk /dev/sdb > > The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 121583. > There is nothing wrong with that,

Re: [leaf-user] HighPoint RocketRAID 174x (need help in formating/mounting the RAID)

2007-12-05 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adam Niedzwiedzki wrote: > Hi Charles, > > The issue is it's not actually mounting at all.. > nas# mount -t ext3 /dev/sdb1 /mnt > mount: Mounting /dev/sdb1 on /mnt failed: No such device Ah...that was unclear from your previous post. It sounds like

Re: [leaf-user] HighPoint RocketRAID 174x (need help in formating/mounting the RAID)

2007-12-05 Thread Adam Niedzwiedzki
no errors in /var/log/messages or /var/log/syslog Cheers Ad -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dirk Gfroerer Sent: Wednesday, 5 December 2007 7:23 PM To: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [leaf-user] HighPoint RocketRAID 174x (need

Re: [leaf-user] HighPoint RocketRAID 174x (need help in formating/mounting the RAID)

2007-12-05 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adam Niedzwiedzki wrote: > Yup it all formats "as normal" no issues at all, > everything works fine, > fdisk /dev/sdb creating a partition setting it's type, saving/writing, then > mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdb1 works as well, again no issues.. goes through and

Re: [leaf-user] HighPoint RocketRAID 174x (need help in formating/mounting the RAID)

2007-12-05 Thread Adam Niedzwiedzki
ists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [leaf-user] HighPoint RocketRAID 174x (need help in formating/mounting the RAID) -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adam Niedzwiedzki wrote: > Yup it all formats "as normal" no issues at all, > everything works fine, > fdisk /dev/sdb

Re: [leaf-user] HighPoint RocketRAID 174x (need help in formating/mounting the RAID)

2007-12-05 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adam Niedzwiedzki wrote: > Yeah that's what I thought, very weird > > nas# dd if=/dev/sdb1 of=/dev/null bs=512 count=256 > 256+0 records in > 256+0 records out > > nas# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb1 bs=512 count=256 > 256+0 records in > 256+0 reco

Re: [leaf-user] HighPoint RocketRAID 174x (need help in formating/mounting the RAID)

2007-12-06 Thread Adam Niedzwiedzki
2:09 PM To: Adam Niedzwiedzki Cc: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [leaf-user] HighPoint RocketRAID 174x (need help in formating/mounting the RAID) -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adam Niedzwiedzki wrote: > Yeah that's what I thought, very weird > > na

Re: [leaf-user] HighPoint RocketRAID 174x (need help in formating/mounting the RAID)

2007-12-06 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adam Niedzwiedzki wrote: > I only have one minor issue left, I tried adding ext3 and jdb into > initrd.lrp but it broke the booting (it doesn't seem to create the ram disk > file system), so I put them back into /lib/modules and added them to > /etc/m