[Bug 219393] Re: ich9R raid array not detected

2008-06-01 Thread Pinocheckio
Ok, it works now!! i just had to read more carefully :) Thanks all! But I 've another question, what happens if I upgrade to new kernel version? Because I think this dmraid 45 patch is only available kor kernel 2.6.24.16? -- ich9R raid array not detected https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/219393

[Bug 219393] Re: ich9R raid array not detected

2008-05-31 Thread Pinocheckio
i´ve got th same problem with my Abit ip35 pro, ICH9R I want to make a Raid 5 array, and after hours i managed, with the mdraid45 module (that appears only to be working in kernel 2.6.24.16) to build the array and format in ntfs. So basically i want it to be accessible in linux and windows, but

[Bug 219393] Re: ich9R raid array not detected

2008-05-30 Thread jbfoley
Thanks Phillip! That worked for me as well! I can now sudo mount /dev/dm-1 /media/RAID and read and write to it without breaking the array. The issue where the RAID is shown as broken after a soft reboot is resolved as well. Some of the research that I did on this issue since my last post

[Bug 219393] Re: ich9R raid array not detected

2008-05-29 Thread Sebounet
And the winner is : Philip Susi :) Thanks, it works for me ! I have other problems with installer : Installer displays bizarre patition table, but nothing alarming. It can't format the ext3 partition. I did it manually, without a problem, and asked installer not ot format ... But now, it

[Bug 219393] Re: ich9R raid array not detected

2008-05-27 Thread Phillip Susi
Ok, because libata is loaded as a module rather than built into the kernel, you have to add the line: options libata ignore_hpa=0 to /etc/modprobe.d/libata-options. After adding the line, you will need to run sudo update-initramfs -u. If you are booting from the livecd, then you need to add

[Bug 219393] Re: ich9R raid array not detected

2008-05-24 Thread masa
hello, me again whit the bad english :-) jbfoley i tried to add this to the boot line in /boot/grub/menu.lst but after cold reboot its gone, /boot/grub/menu.lst was rewritten by ? ok looking in the dmesg it appears there [0.00] Command line:

[Bug 219393] Re: ich9R raid array not detected

2008-05-22 Thread jbfoley
The kernel parameter does not appear to have had the intended effect. I added this entry to menu.lst in /boot/grub and cold-booted to it: title Ubuntu 8.04, kernel 2.6.24-16-generic (RAID fix) root(hd0,4) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-16-generic

[Bug 219393] Re: ich9R raid array not detected

2008-05-21 Thread Phillip Susi
Have you tried updating your bios yet? I also notice that the version recorded in the signature is rather old. According to Intel, the metadata is supposed to reside in the last two sectors of the disk. Based on the incorrect position and the incorrect disk size I noted that was recorded

[Bug 219393] Re: ich9R raid array not detected

2008-05-21 Thread jbfoley
I'll have to inform Gigabyte of the problem, then. The BIOS I have is F4, which is the release version, but also the most recent version available for this board. With such a new product, I guess that's the danger. In the meantime, I'd like to see this work at least once, just so we can confirm

[Bug 219393] Re: ich9R raid array not detected

2008-05-21 Thread jbfoley
Thanks, I didn't see your last message before I posted, there. I'll give that kernel parameter a try this evening. I still think Gigabyte needs to act on this, especially if they've got an old version of the RAID BIOS. I think I will send them to this thread directly. -- ich9R raid array not

[Bug 219393] Re: ich9R raid array not detected

2008-05-21 Thread Phillip Susi
I have done some more reading of that thread on the ataraid list you linked before, and the bug reports they reference, and it seems my initial suspicions were correct. Your bios is using the Host Protected Area feature to reduce the size of the disk, and the kernel is resetting that. Could you

[Bug 219393] Re: ich9R raid array not detected

2008-05-21 Thread Sebounet
Currently running on kubuntu live CD 8.04. Mobo : P35C-DS3R (rev2.0) with latest BIOS (F11e) ( First version of bios are AWFULL , nothing worked correctly... ) I added ata_ignore_hpa=0 at boot ... But it did not help :( still have : [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# dmraid -ay ERROR: isw device for volume

[Bug 219393] Re: ich9R raid array not detected

2008-05-21 Thread Sebounet
I read here : http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4859992 that loading libata module this way : modprobe libata ignore_hpa=0 ..may help. But how to add this option while booting on liveCD ? -- ich9R raid array not detected https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/219393 You received this bug

[Bug 219393] Re: ich9R raid array not detected

2008-05-21 Thread Sebounet
No other solution than extracting the Filesystem.squashfs - modifying - recreate an ISO ? ( long way to go for just a try ... ) -- ich9R raid array not detected https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/219393 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 219393] Re: ich9R raid array not detected

2008-05-21 Thread Phillip Susi
That's what I was just trying to figure out Sebounet... but in your case, your actual array is also broken since both disks were given different signatures when created. You might try recreating the array and see if they get the same signature this time. To work properly they need the same

[Bug 219393] Re: ich9R raid array not detected

2008-05-20 Thread masa
jbfoley, its a bug in ubuntu dmraid modules or somting else buts its in ubuntu! how Sebounet says if you are booting COLD in to a gentoo live cd it works fine, fdisk shows after spliting the disk the created devices unter /dev/maper ... but ubuntu-dmraid counts the devices up an reads the

[Bug 219393] Re: ich9R raid array not detected

2008-05-20 Thread jbfoley
I tried breaking the array, reformatting both drives with mkfs (ext2) and then rebuilding the array. This time dmraid would only see one drive of the mirror, and not the other one. I'm including my info dump in a text file. Perhaps this version of the Intel driver only needs to mark one drive?

[Bug 219393] Re: ich9R raid array not detected

2008-05-20 Thread jbfoley
I have a gentoo live CD lying around somewhere, so I'll give that a try tonight. -- ich9R raid array not detected https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/219393 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 219393] Re: ich9R raid array not detected

2008-05-20 Thread Phillip Susi
Hrm it sounds like the bios may be writing the signature to a different location on the disk each time, and dmraid becomes messed up when it finds the wrong one. jfboley, would you wipe the disk clean, recreate the raid array, and then dump the last 2 megs of each disk and post them here?

[Bug 219393] Re: ich9R raid array not detected

2008-05-20 Thread jbfoley
I will try this procedure this evening and post the results. Do you want me to run this procedure on sda as well? In my current configuration, sda is not a RAID member, and it serves as my boot disk. sdb and sdc are the members of the RAID. One correction, dmraid does not work correctly after a

[Bug 219393] Re: ich9R raid array not detected

2008-05-20 Thread jbfoley
Phillip, I have attached the results of your suggested procedure. I took the chance to look at them, and found that while the sig data does exist on both drives, it is also located in very different spots on each. This seems very strange to me, but also suggests an easy workaround and fix. For

[Bug 219393] Re: ich9R raid array not detected

2008-05-20 Thread jbfoley
I moved the signature data on sdb to the same offset as that on sdc (and zeroed out its old position.) (I moved the data from sdb to sdb, even though it looked like the sigs on the two drives were identical.) This resulted in the BIOS seeing the RAID as degraded, with one member disk, and one

[Bug 219393] Re: ich9R raid array not detected

2008-05-19 Thread jbfoley
Masa, what you are seeing seems to agree with my most recent test. I once again deleted the array in BIOS and re-created it, only this time, I named it NewRAID1 When I ran dmraid -n it showed the first disk as being a part of NewRAID1 and the second as being a part of RAID1, which was the name

[Bug 219393] Re: ich9R raid array not detected

2008-05-19 Thread Phillip Susi
When posting to a bug someone else filed to say me too you really need to try to provide the same detailed information that others have in the bug report to be useful. In this case, that would mean the output of dmraid -n and dmraid -ay - -. -- ich9R raid array not detected

[Bug 219393] Re: ich9R raid array not detected

2008-05-17 Thread Sebounet
Same problem here with a P35C-DS3R (rev2.0). dmraid works fine with gentoo liveCD , with exactly same version of dmraid and mapper. So in my mind, the raid array is badly initialized by something else... Maybe it comes from another module (not loaded in gentoo case) ? -- ich9R raid array not

[Bug 219393] Re: ich9R raid array not detected

2008-05-08 Thread masa
same here! MOBO: Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS4 (Bios F2) ( http://www.gigabyte.de/Support/Motherboard/Driver_Model.aspx?ProductID=2678 ) CHIPSET: ICH9R Chipset RAID: RAID0 (SATA) + RAID1(SATA) - I have 2 raid arrays, RAID1 and RAID0. Seems that RAID1 works and after reboot it

[Bug 219393] Re: ich9R raid array not detected

2008-05-08 Thread masa
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo dmraid -ay -vvv -d WARN: locking /var/lock/dmraid/.lock NOTICE: skipping removable device /dev/sdf NOTICE: skipping removable device /dev/sdg NOTICE: skipping removable device /dev/sdh NOTICE: skipping removable device /dev/sdi NOTICE: skipping removable device /dev/sdj

[Bug 219393] Re: ich9R raid array not detected

2008-05-05 Thread Watchwolf
You re not alone, I have the same problem. The raid was correctly detected with dmraid R13 but not usable (there was no device for the partition). The R14 fixed this problem but now, only 1 disk is detected by the raid and dmraid seems broken the raid. -- ich9R raid array not detected

[Bug 219393] Re: ich9R raid array not detected

2008-05-02 Thread jbfoley
I tried that the first time I saw this happen, because the offline member message when I rebooted made me think the raid had been broken by dmraid. On a later attempt, (when I actually had some data on that array to test) I tried a cold boot, and both Windows and the bios recognized the array as

[Bug 219393] Re: ich9R raid array not detected

2008-05-02 Thread Phillip Susi
It looks like Intel has some bugs. Looking closely at the data, both disks disagree on the size of the primary disk. It looks like the bios may have a bug when creating the array which causes it to record the size incorrectly in one of the disks, which results in the family signature being

[Bug 219393] Re: ich9R raid array not detected

2008-05-01 Thread jbfoley
I have the same problem, won't recognize he RAID 1 array on my ICH9R, (Intel X48, Gigabyte X48T-DQ6) warm reboot gives member offline for both member disks, but a cold reboot restores them to normal operational status. Using 8.04 Live CD. This RAID works fine under Windows. A similar problem

[Bug 219393] Re: ich9R raid array not detected

2008-05-01 Thread Phillip Susi
The two disks appear to not be part of the same raid set. Try deleting and recreating the raid set in the bios utility. -- ich9R raid array not detected https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/219393 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 219393] Re: ich9R raid array not detected

2008-05-01 Thread Phillip Susi
** Changed in: dmraid (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) = Phillip Susi (psusi) Status: New = In Progress -- ich9R raid array not detected https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/219393 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 219393] Re: ich9R raid array not detected

2008-04-19 Thread Thomas
In fact, it seems to be coming from somethingis else. If I simply boot from the live cd and reboot, my raid 0 disk is marked as failed and the raid 1 as degraded. After a cold reboot, the raid 0 is OK and the raid 1 marked as degraded. -- ich9R raid array not detected