Re: Software RAID Stopped Working With Aurora Kernel

[Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>]

On Tuesday May 21, cwebster@ec.rr.com wrote:
> 
> This looks much better, but not just right. I would expect that the list
> following "Chunk Size" would be close to the /etc/raidtab that was being
> used prior to the Aurora upgrade when it was last working. At any rate,
> the "this" device and the last device listed are definitely not correct.
> I'm not sure what "this" should be, but I assume it should list
> parameters for the device being queried. 

Thanks for the detail.  I see my mistake.
Please apply this patch and try again.. (memcpy counts in words, even
when I give it pointers to __u32's (ofcourse!)).

NeilBrown

--- Examine.c	2002/05/21 12:07:44	1.1
+++ Examine.c	2002/05/21 12:08:01
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@
 				__u32 *sb32 = (__u32*)&super;
 				memcpy(sb32+MD_SB_GENERIC_CONSTANT_WORDS+7,
 				       sb32+MD_SB_GENERIC_CONSTANT_WORDS+7+1,
-				       MD_SB_WORDS - (MD_SB_GENERIC_CONSTANT_WORDS+7+1));
+				       (MD_SB_WORDS - (MD_SB_GENERIC_CONSTANT_WORDS+7+1))*4);
 				printf (" --- adjusting superblock for 2.2/sparc compatability ---\n");
 			}
 			printf("         Events : %d.%d\n", super.events_hi, super.events_lo);