[Bug 599255] Re: dmraid cannot use over 2TB raid0

2010-07-05 Thread Danny Wood
Hi Nish, I think I have found what I needed and I have made a patched version of dmraid and uploaded to my ppa. This will affect the way that it detects the pdc raids so please make sure you have everything backed up (its probably best done from a live CD). If it works as I expect it will you

[Bug 599255] Re: dmraid cannot use over 2TB raid0

2010-07-05 Thread Nishihama Kenkowo
Hi Danny, raid0-1st array: Using /dev/mapper/pdc_cdfjcjhfhe Disk /dev/mapper/pdc_cdfjcjhfhe: 1999 GB, 193282560 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 243152 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes →It is the same as former. It is good in this. raid0-2nd array: Using

[Bug 599255] Re: dmraid cannot use over 2TB raid0

2010-07-04 Thread Danny Wood
The version of gparted in my ppa doesn't rely on kpartx like the repository version. It should leave dev names alone but the repository version seems to screw them up adding a p in sometimes. The next version of dmraid will leave the p in there, there is a discussion on this in this bug:

[Bug 599255] Re: dmraid cannot use over 2TB raid0

2010-07-04 Thread Danny Wood
To use the script open a terminal and make a clean directory to work in and place the thh dump-pdc-metadata.sh in there (extracted from the archive I uploaded). Make the script executable and then run it. chmod a+x dump-pdc-metadata.sh ./dump-pdc-metadata.sh It will ask you for your password

[Bug 599255] Re: dmraid cannot use over 2TB raid0

2010-07-04 Thread Nishihama Kenkowo
is this ok? metadata.tar.gz ** Attachment added: metadata.tar.gz http://launchpadlibrarian.net/51368604/metadata.tar.gz -- dmraid cannot use over 2TB raid0 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/599255 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed

[Bug 599255] Re: dmraid cannot use over 2TB raid0

2010-07-04 Thread Danny Wood
Yep that's perfect. The second metadata chunk is there for me to investigate. I will let you know when I find a solution. Thanks! -- dmraid cannot use over 2TB raid0 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/599255 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 599255] Re: dmraid cannot use over 2TB raid0

2010-07-04 Thread Nishihama Kenkowo
I'm relieved. Slowly, I'll wait. Thank you,all. -- dmraid cannot use over 2TB raid0 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/599255 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.ubuntu.com

[Bug 599255] Re: dmraid cannot use over 2TB raid0

2010-07-03 Thread Danny Wood
Hi, The 64-bit version has now been built. So you should be able to upgrade. To check the installed version you can use dpkg, the program version will always remain the same. dpkg -p dmraid | grep Version Once upgraded it should output: da...@danny-desktop:~$ dpkg -p dmraid | grep Version

[Bug 599255] Re: dmraid cannot use over 2TB raid0

2010-07-03 Thread Nishihama Kenkowo
# dpkg -p dmraid | grep Ver Version: 1.0.0.rc16-3ubuntu2ppa3~lucid1 r...@phantom:/home/ehhen# dmraid -ay -d -vvv dmraid-ay-d-vvv.txt ** Attachment added: dmraid-ay-d-vvv.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/51327549/dmraid-ay-d-vvv.txt -- dmraid cannot use over 2TB raid0

[Bug 599255] Re: dmraid cannot use over 2TB raid0

2010-07-03 Thread Danny Wood
Hmmm. It didn't quite output what I wanted, sorry about that. I have made another patched version which is more verbose and should show each meta location it tries (weather it finds it or not). Unfortunately there is a bit of a wait in the ppa build queue at the moment. The new version is

[Bug 599255] Re: dmraid cannot use over 2TB raid0

2010-07-03 Thread Nishihama Kenkowo
how to treat *.udev files? there(2files) could not install by dependency. another 3 .deb could be install. ** Attachment added: 2nd.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/51356328/2nd.txt -- dmraid cannot use over 2TB raid0 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/599255 You received this bug

[Bug 599255] Re: dmraid cannot use over 2TB raid0

2010-07-03 Thread Nishihama Kenkowo
Awareness: Current, Only just type gpated. I can see /dev/mapper/pdc. it's good . Current my partition: 1st array(2TB) /dev/mapper/pdc_cdfjcjhfhe1 * 16646533839637 HPFS/NTFS /primary /dev/mapper/pdc_cdfjcjhfhe26647 13276532474427

[Bug 599255] Re: dmraid cannot use over 2TB raid0

2010-07-02 Thread Danny Wood
Annoyingly the metadata only contains the information for the first raid set (which is fine of course). The other set will be another metadata block. We can dump this metadata manually but we need to know where its located. To do this I will patch a version of dmraid that will output these

[Bug 599255] Re: dmraid cannot use over 2TB raid0

2010-07-02 Thread Danny Wood
Hi, I have patched dmraid to show the metadata locations in the debug output (hopefully) This can be found in my ppa https://launchpad.net/~danwood76/+archive/ppa-testing Update the dmraid packages from my ppa and then run `dmraid -ay -d -vvv` again and post the output. This should hopefully

[Bug 599255] Re: dmraid cannot use over 2TB raid0

2010-07-02 Thread Nishihama Kenkowo
** Attachment added: dmraid-ay-d-vvv.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/51297982/dmraid-ay-d-vvv.txt -- dmraid cannot use over 2TB raid0 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/599255 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

[Bug 599255] Re: dmraid cannot use over 2TB raid0

2010-07-02 Thread Nishihama Kenkowo
patch dmraid_1.0.0.rc16-3ubuntu2ppa3~lucid1.diff patching file README.source patching file dmraid-activate patch: File dmraid is not a regular file -- can't patch where I mistaked? dmraid -V dmraid version: 1.0.0.rc16 (2009.09.16) dmraid library version: 1.0.0.rc16

[Bug 599255] Re: dmraid cannot use over 2TB raid0

2010-07-02 Thread Nishihama Kenkowo
I can not find dmraid_1.0.0.rc16.orig.tar.gz in your ppa page. -- dmraid cannot use over 2TB raid0 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/599255 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 599255] Re: dmraid cannot use over 2TB raid0

2010-07-02 Thread Nishihama Kenkowo
r...@phantom:/sbin# ls -l dmraid -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 26891 2010-07-03 03:15 dmraid I do not understand well because I rarely use it(patch). It is difficult for me to patch. Possible deb.form. or (patched)source code..wholly.. get.. I will be glad. The following can be done if it does so.

[Bug 599255] Re: dmraid cannot use over 2TB raid0

2010-07-02 Thread Danny Wood
Hi, Unfortunately the package is still waiting to be built by the Ubuntu servers. It should be complete in 7 hours from now, it seems there is quite a queue for building. You can check the progress by looking on the ppa page (https://launchpad.net/~danwood76/+archive/ppa-testing) and checking

[Bug 599255] Re: dmraid cannot use over 2TB raid0

2010-07-02 Thread Nishihama Kenkowo
maybe, it is ok? I coud upgrade. ls -l dmraid -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 21272 2010-05-30 17:58 dmraid ** Attachment added: dbg.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/51314663/dbg.txt -- dmraid cannot use over 2TB raid0 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/599255 You received this bug notification

[Bug 599255] Re: dmraid cannot use over 2TB raid0

2010-07-02 Thread Nishihama Kenkowo
oh, I think that I must wait for building. dmraid -V dmraid version: 1.0.0.rc16 (2009.09.16) shared dmraid library version: 1.0.0.rc16 (2009.09.16) device-mapper version: 4.15.0 -- dmraid cannot use over 2TB raid0 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/599255 You received this bug

[Bug 599255] Re: dmraid cannot use over 2TB raid0

2010-07-01 Thread Danny Wood
Well we need to determine which software the bug is in. How are you determining that Ubuntu and Fedora can't see the full amount? E.g what program are you using for partitioning. Could you please post the output of (in ubuntu and centos): sudo dmraid -ay -vvv -d This will help us! -- dmraid

[Bug 599255] Re: dmraid cannot use over 2TB raid0

2010-07-01 Thread Danny Wood
I have just been looking at the sources for the centos dmraid package for the pdc. (Promise controller) The only difference is a Raid10 patch but won't affect you as you are not using that. I am inclined to believe the bug is in whatever program you are using for partitioning. The dmraid debug

[Bug 599255] Re: dmraid cannot use over 2TB raid0

2010-07-01 Thread Nishihama Kenkowo
I backuped ALL , almost 3TB. I tryed test on CentOS again. Oh, sorry everyone. on CentOS . I misread message size. CentOS had initialized only 0.3GB (2nd array 2.5TB). CentOS initialized only 286079MB on 2.5TB. every linux have same situations for me. I paste dmraid -ay -vvv -d

[Bug 599255] Re: dmraid cannot use over 2TB raid0

2010-07-01 Thread Nishihama Kenkowo
it is a snapshot of AMD RAID expert software on XP. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7882415/raid-amd.JPG I'll be very happy if I can serve you -- dmraid cannot use over 2TB raid0 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/599255 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 599255] Re: dmraid cannot use over 2TB raid0

2010-07-01 Thread Danny Wood
OK well the debug stuff all looks fine. Could you also post the output of `dmraid -s` (this will list all disk sizes and status seen by dmraid) What software are you trying to partition with? And how are you working out how much disk they are seeing? Also can you post the output of an fdisk

[Bug 599255] Re: dmraid cannot use over 2TB raid0

2010-07-01 Thread Danny Wood
The AMD RAID control panel has nothing to do with linux. To debug the issue I need the output of the commands I have asked for. -- dmraid cannot use over 2TB raid0 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/599255 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 599255] Re: dmraid cannot use over 2TB raid0

2010-07-01 Thread Nishihama Kenkowo
What software are you trying to partition with? On Linux, fundamentally I use gparted or ubuntu installer for resize,create,delete. And how are you working out how much disk they are seeing? how to see my partition. on Fedora, just type. $gparted on Ubuntu $gparted /dev/mapper/pdc_raid on

[Bug 599255] Re: dmraid cannot use over 2TB raid0

2010-07-01 Thread Nishihama Kenkowo
I tested acronis disk director 10.0. linuxCDROM boot kernel 2.4.34 DD not support GPT. So, I partitioned as 2TB EXT2 for 2nd array on DD. XP Win7 can read/write this EXT2 partition. but ,ubuntu can not see. -- dmraid cannot use over 2TB raid0 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/599255 You

[Bug 599255] Re: dmraid cannot use over 2TB raid0

2010-07-01 Thread Danny Wood
Right. The bug is definitely in dmraid. (Disk size reported my dmraid is wrong by 32-bits probably due to truncation) Could you post a metadata dump please. This will allow me to explore the metadata and see if something is different to what it expects. To do a metadata dump run the following

[Bug 599255] Re: dmraid cannot use over 2TB raid0

2010-07-01 Thread Nishihama Kenkowo
thank you danny r...@phantom:~# sudo dmraid -rD /dev/sdc: pdc, pdc_cdfjcjhfhe, stripe, ok, 1302083328 sectors, data@ 0 /dev/sdb: pdc, pdc_cdfjcjhfhe, stripe, ok, 1302083328 sectors, data@ 0 /dev/sda: pdc, pdc_cdfjcjhfhe, stripe, ok, 1302083328 sectors, data@ 0 r...@phantom:~# cannot dump? --

[Bug 599255] Re: dmraid cannot use over 2TB raid0

2010-07-01 Thread Danny Wood
It dumps to a directory without saying anything. In your current working directory. So for example if I run it in the terminal I get this output (I have jmicron and intel raids): da...@danny-desktop:~/dmraid$ sudo dmraid -rD /dev/sda: isw, isw_bgafaifadd, GROUP, ok, 1465149166 sectors, data@ 0

[Bug 599255] Re: dmraid cannot use over 2TB raid0

2010-07-01 Thread Nishihama Kenkowo
I make out. thank you. ** Attachment added: dmraid-pdc.tar http://launchpadlibrarian.net/51239860/dmraid-pdc.tar ** Also affects: dmraid (Fedora) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- dmraid cannot use over 2TB raid0 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/599255 You received this bug

[Bug 599255] Re: dmraid cannot use over 2TB raid0

2010-06-30 Thread Nishihama Kenkowo
Additional test: I tryed another distro,yesterday. In CentOS 5.5 DVD, all capacity was recognized to the second array. 2.5TB . [CentOS inst ]said me initialize this 2.5TB? so. you will use but i did not. because. there are 2.5TB NTFS made by windows XP. i need backup before I was glad to listen

[Bug 599255] Re: dmraid cannot use over 2TB raid0

2010-06-29 Thread Nishihama Kenkowo
I done . I tryed 1 raid array last week. In this case, Linux(fedora/ubuntu) couod not regognize ALL capacity. so I spilitted 2 arrays. thanks. -- dmraid cannot use over 2TB raid0 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/599255 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,

[Bug 599255] Re: dmraid cannot use over 2TB raid0

2010-06-29 Thread Danny Wood
Ok, Could you please output the result of the following command from a live session: sudo dmraid -ay -vvv -d Can windows see the 2.5TB drive ok? -- dmraid cannot use over 2TB raid0 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/599255 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 599255] Re: dmraid cannot use over 2TB raid0

2010-06-29 Thread Danny Wood
Also what RAID controller is it? -- dmraid cannot use over 2TB raid0 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/599255 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.ubuntu.com

[Bug 599255] Re: dmraid cannot use over 2TB raid0

2010-06-29 Thread Danny Wood
I've just had another thought. Are you trying the 64-bit version of Ubuntu? 32-bit addressing will only go up to 2.2TB so it might be worth trying 64-bit Ubuntu instead. 2.5TB - 2.2TB = 300GB (Sound familiar?) But dmraid will not handle two separate arrays on one disk. If 64-bit sees the array

Re: [Bug 599255] Re: dmraid cannot use over 2TB raid0

2010-06-29 Thread Luke Yelavich
I also believe for disks that size you need to use a GPT partition table. -- dmraid cannot use over 2TB raid0 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/599255 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 599255] Re: dmraid cannot use over 2TB raid0

2010-06-29 Thread Mitch Towner
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[Bug 599255] Re: dmraid cannot use over 2TB raid0

2010-06-29 Thread Danny Wood
I think your issue may be caused by the fact that dmraid cannot handle two seperate arrays on one disk set. The best way to do it is have the RAID0 set as the entire set (all 4.5TB) and then partition into smaller chunks. Please try this first! -- dmraid cannot use over 2TB raid0

[Bug 599255] Re: dmraid cannot use over 2TB raid0

2010-06-28 Thread Nishihama Kenkowo
** Summary changed: - fakeraid cannot use over 2TB raid0 + dmraid cannot use over 2TB raid0 ** Description changed: - I have two amd sb7*** motherbord. - I use raid0(1.5TB x 3=4.5TB) by bios(SB7*0). + I have two amd sb7*** motherbord. I tryed two case. - I partitioned two array. 2.0TB(A)