Re: Noob problems

Looks like an older kernel/dmraid version combo, which had a RAID0
activation problem.

Heinz

On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 05:48:34AM -0600, Duane Evenson wrote:
> I cannot access the raid device with fdisk: "Unable to read
> /dev/mapper/hpt37x_fjfegdadi".
> 
> I have two identical hard drives. They have empty partition tables.
> # dmraid -r
> /dev/hde: hpt37x, "hpt37x_fjfegdadi", stripe, ok, 120064832 sectors, data@ 0
> /dev/hdg: hpt37x, "hpt37x_fjfegdadi", stripe, ok, 120064822 sectors,
> data@ 10
> # ls -l /dev/mapper/
> total 0
> crw------- 1 root root 10, 63 Oct 25 11:55 control
> # dmraid -ay
> ERROR: dos: reading /dev/mapper/hpt37x_fjfegdadi[No such file or directory]
> # ls -l /dev/mapper/
> total 0
> crw------- 1 root root  10, 63 Oct 25 11:55 control
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 253,  0 Oct 26 02:07 hpt37x_fjfegdadi
> # fdisk /dev/mapper/hpt37x_fjfegdadi
> 
> Unable to read /dev/mapper/hpt37x_fjfegdadi
> 
> What's my problem? Why can't I access the raid device?
> Just to be thorough I tried this with identical filled partition tables
> as well -- no joy.
> 
> TIA
> Duane
> 
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