[Bug 112402] Re: Fasttrack Promise not recognized: "No RAID disks"

2009-01-06 Thread Barnabas
Oh ok...so there is no chance to get it running ? :( Or do you know some links to get more info about? Greets Barnabas -- Fasttrack Promise not recognized: "No RAID disks" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/112402 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 112402] Re: Fasttrack Promise not recognized: "No RAID disks"

2009-01-05 Thread Phillip Susi
This bug report is for Promise Fasttrack controllers. ALI is not supported by dmraid. -- Fasttrack Promise not recognized: "No RAID disks" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/112402 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu

[Bug 112402] Re: Fasttrack Promise not recognized: "No RAID disks"

2009-01-02 Thread Barnabas
Hello, Im new to Linux and my writing english is very bad i guess, sorry for that ;) but my problem is I got a Asrock 939 Dualsata MoBo with Ali M5289 Raid Kubuntu or dmraid not identifie my raid it says "No Raid disks" so I followed the instrutions on the howto and wanna post the outputfile of

[Bug 112402] Re: Fasttrack Promise not recognized: "No RAID disks"

2008-10-30 Thread Phillip Susi
Returning to fix released since the newly discovered PDC offsets are in the current package. ** Changed in: dmraid (Ubuntu) Status: In Progress => Fix Released -- Fasttrack Promise not recognized: "No RAID disks" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/112402 You received this bug notification b

[Bug 112402] Re: Fasttrack Promise not recognized: "No RAID disks"

2008-09-08 Thread Phillip Susi
Yes William, it is a fake raid. I think I know what your issue is, but since it is not related to a Promise Fasttrack controller, please file a separate bug report. Please title it "isw: Error finding disk table slot" and include the output of dmraid -n /dev/sda and hdparm -i /dev/sda. -- Fastt

[Bug 112402] Re: Fasttrack Promise not recognized: "No RAID disks"

2008-09-06 Thread William
Upping the thread. Any idea on this one ? I start looking around because I wonder if the [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/dev/disk/by-id$ lspci | grep RAID 00:1f.2 RAID bus controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 82801 SATA RAID Controller (rev 02) is a fakeraid or a real RAID needing another kind of drivers. T

[Bug 112402] Re: Fasttrack Promise not recognized: "No RAID disks"

2008-06-28 Thread William
Hi Philip sorry for the delay. Here is the output. Thanks for your help William ** Attachment added: "dmesg output" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/15666321/williamdmesg.out -- Fasttrack Promise not recognized: "No RAID disks" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/112402 You received this bug notif

[Bug 112402] Re: Fasttrack Promise not recognized: "No RAID disks"

2008-06-18 Thread Phillip Susi
William, you appear to have attached your comments as a text file instead of the dmesg output. -- Fasttrack Promise not recognized: "No RAID disks" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/112402 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

[Bug 112402] Re: Fasttrack Promise not recognized: "No RAID disks"

2008-06-17 Thread William
** Attachment added: "unnamed" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/15398006/unnamed -- Fasttrack Promise not recognized: "No RAID disks" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/112402 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs

Re: [Bug 112402] Re: Fasttrack Promise not recognized: "No RAID disks"

2008-06-17 Thread William
Philip, I will do that as soon as I can. Thanks for your answer. I am anxious to be able to dual boot this machine. William On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 9:26 PM, Phillip Susi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > William, can you post the output of sudo dmesg? > > -- > Fasttrack Promise not recognized: "No R

[Bug 112402] Re: Fasttrack Promise not recognized: "No RAID disks"

2008-06-17 Thread Phillip Susi
William, can you post the output of sudo dmesg? -- Fasttrack Promise not recognized: "No RAID disks" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/112402 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ub

[Bug 112402] Re: Fasttrack Promise not recognized: "No RAID disks"

2008-04-27 Thread William
Hello again, I have done the test also with version 7.10 with the exact same results. One thing I do not get is why I need to run the command on /sdb and not sda which also exists. Is it because of the way the disk is set up by Dell ? Thanks a lot William -- Fasttrack Promise not recognized:

[Bug 112402] Re: Fasttrack Promise not recognized: "No RAID disks"

2008-04-26 Thread William
Morning, I have the problem when trying to follow the installation for Heron on a Dell XPS 1730. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home# dmraid -rD ERROR: isw: Error finding disk table slot for /dev/sdb ERROR: isw: Error finding disk table slot for /dev/sda No RAID disks [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home# fdisk -u -l /d

[Bug 112402] Re: Fasttrack Promise not recognized: "No RAID disks"

2008-04-23 Thread Phillip Susi
aranthor and Bill, please try this package and let me know if this fixes it. ** Attachment added: "dmraid_1.0.0.rc14-0ubuntu4_i386.deb" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13841996/dmraid_1.0.0.rc14-0ubuntu4_i386.deb -- Fasttrack Promise not recognized: "No RAID disks" https://bugs.launchpad.net/b

[Bug 112402] Re: Fasttrack Promise not recognized: "No RAID disks"

2008-04-19 Thread Bill Roberts
Didn't finish the last post very gracefully. The dump is at the beginning, not the end (obviously) and I would greatly appreciate help, since I want to make my RAID arary bootable and use the ubuntu server distro instead of the desktop and GRUB gets hopelessly confused at present, unless I turn of

[Bug 112402] Re: Fasttrack Promise not recognized: "No RAID disks"

2008-04-19 Thread Bill Roberts
I'm having the same Promise Fasttrack problem. The fdisk results are : Disk /dev/sda: 74.3 GB, 74355769344 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9039 cylinders, total 145226112 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x000d1b1f Device Boot Start End Block

[Bug 112402] Re: Fasttrack Promise not recognized: "No RAID disks"

2008-01-18 Thread aranthor
Hi everyone. I'm trying to install Ubuntu 7.10 on a Promise Fasttrack S-150 TX2 (installed on a Dell Dimension 8300) with stripe. I've followed the procedure described in the thread, but, also if I've found that my PDC_CONFIGOFFSETS is 241, I was not able to compile dmraid from the source code

[Bug 112402] Re: Fasttrack Promise not recognized: "No RAID disks"

2008-01-17 Thread Portending Ennui
No, I suppose not. Its an Intel RAID. =D I've given up, and just bought bigger hard drives instead. I appreciate your help and I learned a few things, so I am more or less happy with it. Thanks Again! -- Fasttrack Promise not recognized: "No RAID disks" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/112402 Y

[Bug 112402] Re: Fasttrack Promise not recognized: "No RAID disks"

2008-01-17 Thread Phillip Susi
Unfortunately, adding an offset to pdc.c isn't going to do the trick because that looks NOTHING like a promise fasttrack raid header. I'll take a look at it tomorrow hopefully and see if I think I can recognize most of it and maybe they just changed the ASCII signature at the beginning, or if it i

[Bug 112402] Re: Fasttrack Promise not recognized: "No RAID disks"

2008-01-09 Thread Portending Ennui
So, I've added my offset to the source, and tried to compile, but I can't, it always fails, and gives me errors in the sourcefile devmapper.c. I am not a programmer, except a bit of dabbling in windows vb.net and C++, and am wondering what I need to install besides build- essential to compile and i

[Bug 112402] Re: Fasttrack Promise not recognized: "No RAID disks"

2008-01-07 Thread Portending Ennui
I found the meta data. I ACTUALLY found it. thanks for the zeroing hint Phillip, I completely zeroed both disks, to be sure, as there was all sorts of stuff I didn't know. I narrowed it down and found it located on /dev/sda at sector 156297345. After narrowing it down I ran : sudo dd if=/dev/sd

[Bug 112402] Re: Fasttrack Promise not recognized: "No RAID disks"

2008-01-07 Thread Portending Ennui
forgot files. oops! Thanks again. ** Attachment added: "archive with relevant data" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/11198453/metadatafound.tar.bz2 -- Fasttrack Promise not recognized: "No RAID disks" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/112402 You received this bug notification because you are a mem

[Bug 112402] Re: Fasttrack Promise not recognized: "No RAID disks"

2008-01-07 Thread Phillip Susi
Portending, the installer will always see the two physical disks... the question is, does it also see the /dev/mapper/ virtual raid disk? If not, and you want to see if you can find the metadata on the disk, then do this: To start, you may as well blow away any partitions on the disk. Then we

[Bug 112402] Re: Fasttrack Promise not recognized: "No RAID disks"

2008-01-06 Thread Portending Ennui
Last Post, I give up. I have searched the ubuntu forums, google, and countless linux mailing lists and forums, and discovered, the few people who own Toshiba Qosmios that use linux, are all in the same boat. It worked in v6.06 and v6.10, and is broken at all points later. I'm going to try v6.10

[Bug 112402] Re: Fasttrack Promise not recognized: "No RAID disks"

2008-01-06 Thread Portending Ennui
WOW, I'm all over the place! Ubuntu DOES recognize my RAID 0, just not fully. I rebooted to the live cd 1 more time and opened the computer browser, and see "149.0GB Volume: disk", right clicking it and selecting properties shows 149.0GB, File system NTFS. but the ubuntu installer and GParted see

[Bug 112402] Re: Fasttrack Promise not recognized: "No RAID disks"

2008-01-06 Thread Portending Ennui
Ooooh, goody goody goody. I've found stuff. I just don't know what to make of it. I found all sorts of stuff in the output file, But its more than a megabyte before the end, which subtracting 2000 gave me. I tried with 156291488 in the skip field, or subtracting 1, and got a 5mb file with

[Bug 112402] Re: Fasttrack Promise not recognized: "No RAID disks"

2008-01-06 Thread Portending Ennui
This is really getting to me. I like to solve things! =P So, I've recovered the full size of the first drive. I had to use a tool from http://blog.atola.com/ (The Capacity Restore Tool), and since my drives are on a fakeraid controller, I had to use a desktop computer to do it (glad I'm out of w

[Bug 112402] Re: Fasttrack Promise not recognized: "No RAID disks"

2008-01-04 Thread qwerty9967
I am having the same problem and the help guide says to post here asking for help. dmraid -rD didn't generate any files so used the fdisk and dd commands to generate the attached files. Any help that you can give would be greatly appreciated. ** Attachment added: "text files" http://launchpad

[Bug 112402] Re: Fasttrack Promise not recognized: "No RAID disks"

2007-12-28 Thread Phillip Susi
** Changed in: dmraid (Ubuntu) Importance: Wishlist => Medium Status: Fix Released => In Progress -- Fasttrack Promise not recognized: "No RAID disks" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/112402 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug cont

[Bug 112402] Re: Fasttrack Promise not recognized: "No RAID disks"

2007-12-28 Thread Phillip Susi
Portending, that file appears to contain much the same data. It may be that the metadata is hidden by the bios when it hides this player thing. I would also suggest calling Toshiba support and asking them how to remove this player and recover the full disk space. I've never heard of a laptop with

[Bug 112402] Re: Fasttrack Promise not recognized: "No RAID disks"

2007-12-27 Thread Portending Ennui
Here's the file with the suggested skip value. I think I may know my problem. Toshiba Qosmios come with a instant on TV/DVD player. This is eating about 100MB of space off of sda (Disk 1). I have tried all sorts of things to recover this space. Every utility I have tried simply doesn't see it c

[Bug 112402] Re: Fasttrack Promise not recognized: "No RAID disks"

2007-12-27 Thread Portending Ennui
Thank You Phillip, I used a different value. I will give that a try tonight or tomorrow and post the output. I appreciate the help. -- Fasttrack Promise not recognized: "No RAID disks" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/112402 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu B

[Bug 112402] Re: Fasttrack Promise not recognized: "No RAID disks"

2007-12-27 Thread Phillip Susi
Portending, you need to adjust the skip= value to be correct for your hard disk. In your case it should be 156299488. If this is the value that you used, then I can not see any metadata in the output file. Would you be able to reformat the drives and recreate the array to help find the data? Ant

[Bug 112402] Re: Fasttrack Promise not recognized: "No RAID disks"

2007-12-23 Thread Portending Ennui
I'm having this issue with a Toshiba Qosmio G35-AV600 notebook. It uses an Intel ICH7-M SATA controller customized by Toshiba. The fdisk results and output file are attached. This is on gutsy, btw. ** Attachment added: "output file and txt with fdisk results" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/1

[Bug 112402] Re: Fasttrack Promise not recognized: "No RAID disks"

2007-07-22 Thread xprimnt
In case anybody is still adding offsets to the more recent packages, my FastTrack TX2plus RAID0 offset was 951. A "quick" (read: long, painstaking) run through the instructions above got my RAID recognized and I could mount /dev/mapper/pdc_crazylettercombination2 and get all the data off my Window

[Bug 112402] Re: Fasttrack Promise not recognized: "No RAID disks"

2007-06-12 Thread Phillip Susi
Please try the latest gutsy gibbon livecd and see if that works for you. -- Fasttrack Promise not recognized: "No RAID disks" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/112402 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs ma

[Bug 112402] Re: Fasttrack Promise not recognized: "No RAID disks"

2007-06-08 Thread Antonio Penta
Hi, i install ubuntu 7 on xeon intell raid o but i have some problem with raid configuration the comand dmraid -r give me the message no raid disp and i have the same descripion on post https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dmraid/+bug/112402 but the patch is not good becouse a i have x64

[Bug 112402] Re: Fasttrack Promise not recognized: "No RAID disks"

2007-05-15 Thread Phillip Susi
** Changed in: dmraid (Ubuntu) Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released -- Fasttrack Promise not recognized: "No RAID disks" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/112402 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 112402] Re: Fasttrack Promise not recognized: "No RAID disks"

2007-05-15 Thread Daniel T Chen
** Changed in: dmraid (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Wishlist -- Fasttrack Promise not recognized: "No RAID disks" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/112402 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing

[Bug 112402] Re: Fasttrack Promise not recognized: "No RAID disks"

2007-05-14 Thread Luke Yelavich
Thanks for your work. Please mark as fix released once the package has successfully built. -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 10:32:31 -0400 Source: dmraid Binary: dmraid-udeb dmraid Architecture: source Version: 1.0.0.rc13-2ubuntu4 Distribution: guts

[Bug 112402] Re: Fasttrack Promise not recognized: "No RAID disks"

2007-05-14 Thread Steve
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FakeRaidDebug Now if my Xsession would start working! It WAS working until I installed a bunch of apps with Automatix. Ug. -- Fasttrack Promise not recognized: "No RAID disks" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/112402 You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 112402] Re: Fasttrack Promise not recognized: "No RAID disks"

2007-05-13 Thread Tormod Volden
Steve, thanks for a very good how-to. Would you mind adding it to the wiki, maybe on a new FakeRaidDebug page? That's a better place than here in this bug report, where it easily will be lost and forgot. -- Fasttrack Promise not recognized: "No RAID disks" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/112402 Y

[Bug 112402] Re: Fasttrack Promise not recognized: "No RAID disks"

2007-05-10 Thread Phillip Susi
** Changed in: dmraid (Ubuntu) Status: Needs Info => Fix Committed -- Fasttrack Promise not recognized: "No RAID disks" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/112402 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs m

[Bug 112402] Re: Fasttrack Promise not recognized: "No RAID disks"

2007-05-10 Thread Phillip Susi
Attaching debdiff and requesting sponsor upload to gutsy. ** Attachment added: "dmraid_1.0.0.rc13-2ubuntu4.debdiff" http://librarian.launchpad.net/7598452/dmraid_1.0.0.rc13-2ubuntu4.debdiff -- Fasttrack Promise not recognized: "No RAID disks" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/112402 You receiv

[Bug 112402] Re: Fasttrack Promise not recognized: "No RAID disks"

2007-05-09 Thread Steve
looking good! when I run ubiquity, it lists the /dev/mapper partitions in the "Prepare disk space" > "Manual" > "Prepare Partitions" menu. Can you leave this thread open a little longer? I will do a "Solution" post for others with new offsets. Is there a command you can run to scan the last 2000 s

[Bug 112402] Re: Fasttrack Promise not recognized: "No RAID disks"

2007-05-09 Thread Phillip Susi
Excellent work, yes... I computed 911 as well and added it to the list of offsets to check. Try this package. ** Attachment added: "dmraid_1.0.0.rc13-2ubuntu4_i386.deb" http://librarian.launchpad.net/7593750/dmraid_1.0.0.rc13-2ubuntu4_i386.deb -- Fasttrack Promise not recognized: "No RAID d

[Bug 112402] Re: Fasttrack Promise not recognized: "No RAID disks"

2007-05-09 Thread Steve
Here is perhaps a better dump since the start of the dump (and hence hex numbering) starts with "Promise Technology, Inc." I don't know whether this location matches up with one of the expected config offsets in pdc.h [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/$ sudo dd if=/dev/sda of=myfile skip=312499089 911+0 record

[Bug 112402] Re: Fasttrack Promise not recognized: "No RAID disks"

2007-05-09 Thread Steve
I found the metadata on the last sector of the disk, but I don't know how to decode it and figure out whether it matches the format that dmraid is expecting for pdc... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo cfdisk -Ps /dev/sda Partition Table for /dev/sda First Last # Type Sector

[Bug 112402] Re: Fasttrack Promise not recognized: "No RAID disks"

2007-05-07 Thread Steve
when i run that command i just get the usual "No RAID disks" and no files created. Do you think it might be a problem with the sata_promise driver? I notice that they have been working on the way this driver works with my particular card (my card has both the sata and pata interfaces) and there ar

[Bug 112402] Re: Fasttrack Promise not recognized: "No RAID disks"

2007-05-07 Thread Phillip Susi
Please run dmraid -rD and take the 3 files it generates ( .dat, .offset, .size ) and attach them to this bug report as a .tar.bz2. I'll forward the data upstream for them to analyze. -- Fasttrack Promise not recognized: "No RAID disks" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/112402 You received this bug

[Bug 112402] Re: Fasttrack Promise not recognized: "No RAID disks"

2007-05-06 Thread Steve
The exact version of the card I'm using is: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20371 (FastTrak S150 TX2plus) (rev 02) BIOS version 1.00.20.54 (latest) on a Dell PowerEdge 400SC Service Tag 3YJGV51 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/$ sudo dmraid -r -D No RAID disks Does that mean that not only could dmraid not underst

[Bug 112402] Re: Fasttrack Promise not recognized: "No RAID disks"

2007-05-05 Thread Steve
It seems that didn't fix the problem. Here is the output: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Desktop$ sudo dpkg -i dmraid_1.0.0.rc13-2ubuntu4_i386.deb (Reading database ... 91569 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace dmraid 1.0.0.rc13-2ubuntu3 (using dmraid_1.0.0.rc13-2ubuntu4_i386.de

[Bug 112402] Re: Fasttrack Promise not recognized: "No RAID disks"

2007-05-04 Thread Phillip Susi
I am attaching an updated package with this patch. Download it and install it by running sudo dpkg -i dmraid_1.0.0.rc13-2ubuntu4_i386.deb Let me know if this fixes it. ** Attachment added: "dmraid_1.0.0.rc13-2ubuntu4_i386.deb" http://librarian.launchpad.net/7557291/dmraid_1.0.0.rc13-2ubuntu4

[Bug 112402] Re: Fasttrack Promise not recognized: "No RAID disks"

2007-05-04 Thread Steve
THANK YOU! Yes, this was with Feisty. I'm no expert when it comes to applying patches... If you build a new package, will I be able to grab it through the Synaptic GUI? WOW! This support is better than any paid software I've ever used! -- Fasttrack Promise not recognized: "No RAID disks" https:/

[Bug 112402] Re: Fasttrack Promise not recognized: "No RAID disks"

2007-05-04 Thread Phillip Susi
Was this with Feisty? Someone had similar problems and produced a patch on the ataraid mailing list. I will apply this patch and build you a new package to test. ** Changed in: dmraid (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Phillip Susi Status: Unconfirmed => Needs Info -- Fasttrack Pr