From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ian Leonard Subject: Highpoint hpt370 raid and span disks Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 10:40:45 +0000 Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20040114104045.GU3426@dino> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; Format=Flowed DelSp=Yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: Received: from mta01-svc.ntlworld.com ([62.253.162.41]:42114 "EHLO mta01-svc.ntlworld.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265568AbUANKkr (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Jan 2004 05:40:47 -0500 Received: from dino ([81.103.192.30]) by mta01-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.37 201-229-121-137-20020806) with ESMTP id <20040114104039.KJVD5044.mta01-svc.ntlworld.com@dino> for ; Wed, 14 Jan 2004 10:40:39 +0000 Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Greetings, I have tried to get the htpraid.o module working with spanned raid disks with a hpt370 chip (it is a slightly older version). I did this 1. Setup the raid in the hpt bios 2. loaded the hptraid.o module (kernel: 2.4.24) 3. fdisk /dev/ataraid/d0 and create /dev/ataraid/d0p1 I note that: fdisk shows one partition of 80GB (which is correct because I have 2x40GB disks). Also /proc/ 4. mke2fs -j /dev/ataraid/d0p1 5. mount the partition and df shows 80GB. 6. run a test program that fills up the disk with many 1GB files. At about the 32nd file I see errors from ext3 and also i/0 errors ide controller. The error messages list the hdg device and indicate that they can't find sectors in the second disk. After a reboot, the raid bios marks the 2nd disk with 'broken span'. I see from a previous posting that spanning is supported, so I maybe missing something. Any help appreciated. -- Ian Leonard Please ignore spelling and punctuation - I did.