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From: R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl (Rogier Wolff)
To: Rogier Wolff <R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RAID magics gone...
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 17:19:49 +0100 (MET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200203101619.RAA16806@cave.bitwizard.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200203100914.KAA14394@cave.bitwizard.nl> from Rogier Wolff at "Mar 10, 2002 10:14:30 am"

Rogier Wolff wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have a machine with 4 160G disks in a raid-0 configuration. Now
> after upgrading the hardware, all of a sudden raidstart can't find the
> raid-superblocks anymore. Invalid magic. 
> 
> I'm suspecting that it might be that the superblock was overwritten
> with data or something like that. Does anybody know of a bug like
> this?
> 
> We're running kernel-2.4.16 with andre's IDE patches for the large
> disks.
> 
> I'll see if I can find the "magic" anywhere on the disk....

Couldn't find them .

Moved the disks to the old machine, got my RAID back. But I still
can't find the magic numbers for the rais-sb anywhere. 


Could it be that 48bit addressing doesn't work for PIO mode?
Either KERNEL bug, drive bug or by spec?

I found that the drives were horribly slow when I tried searching
them. So I turned DMA on only after having failed to mount the raid,
and started to "search" through the whole disk.

Can someone seek to the 8k before end of a raid-partition, and dump
the remaining part of the disk, so that I can be sure to know what it
looks like? That should include the raid-sb, right?

				Roger. 

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-03-10 16:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-03-10  9:14 RAID magics gone Rogier Wolff
2002-03-10 10:03 ` Eyal Lebedinsky
2002-03-10 13:49 ` Francois Romieu
2002-03-10 16:19 ` Rogier Wolff [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-03-15 23:01 Rogier Wolff

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