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On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 12:39, Jim Lynch wrote:
> Mine too. /dev/ida/c0d2/disc wasn't found. I've decided to live with
> just one big partition. Updating the drivers seems to work but didn't
> change the behavior. Seemed to means the rpm command reported changing
> some things and I rebooted but dmesg reports Compaq smart driver 2.4.5,
> but during the rpm run I recall a version considerably higher, like 2.4.26.
>
> Thanks for the try.
>
> Jim.
>
>
> Yu, Jerry wrote:
>
> >/dev/ida/c0d2 is the correct device to fdisk on.
> >My RH73 system on a Compaq 1850R with hardware mirror (RAID 1) shows
> >/dev/ida/c0d2 as a block device instead of a directory.
> >
> ># -----Original Message-----
> ># From: ale-bounces at ale.org [<a rel="nofollow" href="mailto:ale-bounces";>mailto:ale-bounces</a> at ale.org]On
> ># Behalf Of Jeff
> ># Hubbs
> ># Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2004 5:28 PM
> ># To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> ># Subject: Re: [ale] Compaq raid disk. How do I format?
> >#
> >#
> ># I think you're running fdisk on the wrong thing. You need to go
> >#
> ># /sbin/fdisk /dev/ida/c0d2/disc
> >#
> ># (yes, that's with a "c")
> >#
> ># - Jeff
> >#
> ># On Tue, 2004-10-12 at 08:32, Jim Lynch wrote:
> ># > Thanks, guys for your input. I'm a bit constrained here.
> ># The server is
> ># > in California and I'm in GA. The fellow (NT admin) that
> ># set up the raid
> ># > config did the install of the disks and configured c0d2 as two 9 Gb
> ># > disks mirrored. I'd like to redo the whole thing, but I
> ># can't remotely
> ># > and don't have anyone that understands both raid and linux
> ># at the site,
> ># > so I'm stuck with what I've got.
> ># >
> ># > On your advice I did go into fdisk and try to partition
> ># c0d2. Strange
> ># > thing happened. I can't seem to create more than one partition. I
> ># > think the geometry is screwed up somehow. Note it would only let me
> ># > start at block 1 and didn't ask me how large to make the
> ># partition. It
> ># > just grabbed it all. Any ideas how to fix that?
> ># >
> ># > /sbin/fdisk /dev/ida/c0d2
> ># >
> ># > Command (m for help): p
> ># >
> ># > Disk /dev/ida/c0d2: 1 heads, 17764320 sectors, 1 cylinders
> ># > Units = cylinders of 17764320 * 512 bytes
> ># >
> ># > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> ># >
> ># > Command (m for help): n
> ># > Command action
> ># > e extended
> ># > p primary partition (1-4)
> ># > p
> ># > Partition number (1-4): 1
> ># > First cylinder (1-1, default 1):
> ># > Using default value 1
> ># >
> ># > Command (m for help): p
> ># >
> ># > Disk /dev/ida/c0d2: 1 heads, 17764320 sectors, 1 cylinders
> ># > Units = cylinders of 17764320 * 512 bytes
> ># >
> ># > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> ># > /dev/ida/c0d2p1 1 1 8882159+ 83 Linux
> ># > Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
> ># > phys=(768, 0, 32) logical=(0, 0, 17764320)
> ># > Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary:
> ># > phys=(768, 0, 32) should be (768, 0, 17764320)
> ># >
> ># > Command (m for help):
> ># >
> ># >
> ># > Jim Lynch wrote:
> ># >
> ># > > I've have an old compaq that a Windows tech added some
> ># disks to but
> ># > > had no idea what to do to make it work on Linux. From the dmesg
> ># > > listing I found:
> ># > >
> ># > > Compaq SMART2 Driver (v 2.4.5)
> ># > > Found 1 controller(s)
> ># > > cpqarray: Finding drives on ida0 (SMART-2/P)
> ># > > cpqarray ida/c0d0: blksz=512 nr_blks=8380320
> ># > > cpqarray ida/c0d1: blksz=512 nr_blks=16768800
> ># > > cpqarray ida/c0d2: blksz=512 nr_blks=17764320
> ># > >
> ># > > It looks like he added ida/c0d2 since I have the other two drives
> ># > > mentioned in the fstab file. When I tried to look at one of the
> ># > > existing drives with fdisk I found:
> ># > > Disk /dev/ida/c0d1: 1 heads, 16768800 sectors, 1 cylinders
> ># > > Units = cylinders of 16768800 * 512 bytes
> ># > >
> ># > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> ># > > /dev/ida/c0d1p1 * 1 1 2044064 82 Linux swap
> ># > > Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings
> ># (non-Linux?):
> ># > > phys=(0, 1, 1) logical=(0, 0, 33)
> ># > > Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
> ># > > phys=(500, 254, 32) logical=(0, 0, 4088160)
> ># > > Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary:
> ># > > phys=(500, 254, 32) should be (500, 0, 16768800)
> ># > > /dev/ida/c0d1p2 1 1 391680 83 Linux
> ># > > Partition 2 has different physical/logical beginnings
> ># (non-Linux?):
> ># > > phys=(501, 0, 1) logical=(0, 0, 4088161)
> ># > > Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings:
> ># > > phys=(596, 254, 32) logical=(0, 0, 4871520)
> ># > > Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary:
> ># > > phys=(596, 254, 32) should be (596, 0, 16768800)
> ># > > /dev/ida/c0d1p3 1 1 261120 83 Linux
> ># > > Partition 3 has different physical/logical beginnings
> ># (non-Linux?):
> ># > > phys=(597, 0, 1) logical=(0, 0, 4871521)
> ># > > Partition 3 has different physical/logical endings:
> ># > > phys=(660, 254, 32) logical=(0, 0, 5393760)
> ># > > Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary:
> ># > > phys=(660, 254, 32) should be (660, 0, 16768800)
> ># > > /dev/ida/c0d1p4 1 1 5687520 f
> ># Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
> ># > > Partition 4 has different physical/logical beginnings
> ># (non-Linux?):
> ># > > phys=(661, 0, 1) logical=(0, 0, 5393761)
> ># > > Partition 4 has different physical/logical endings:
> ># > > phys=(1023, 254, 32) logical=(0, 0, 16768800)
> ># > > Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary:
> ># > > phys=(1023, 254, 32) should be (1023, 0, 16768800)
> ># > > /dev/ida/c0d1p5 1 1 5687504 83 Linux
> ># > >
> ># > > Which makes me a bit leary of using fdisk on these
> ># drives. Most of
> ># > > that output doesn't make sense to me. Can anyone point me in the
> ># > > right direction so I can learn how to format this new
> ># drive? This is
> ># > > a RH 7.2 system. If I understand correctly this is a
> ># RAID system.
> ># > > The new drive is really 2 9 Gb drives configured as a
> ># mirror, so I
> ># > > was told. Is there some other utility I need to use to
> ># make sense of
> ># > > the partitioning of the existing drives?
> ># > >
> ># > > Thanks,
> ># > > Jim.
> ># > >
> ># > >
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