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Bug#243024: marked as done (Unable to modify disks on a machine with Mylex Acceleraid 170 RAID controller (DAC960 controller). This is because of the unusual partition scheme used by the driver: the first logical disk is /dev/rd/c0d0 and the partitions are /dev/rd/c0d0p1, /dev/rd/c0d0p2, etc. Howerver parted expects the naming scheme to be the usual for devfs (../disc, ../part1, ../part2, and so on). As a result partman attempts to mount/format unexisting devices. I do not know how to fix this. In my opinion this is not a bug in parted but in the DAC960 driver.)

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has caused the Debian Bug report #243024,
regarding Unable to modify disks on a machine with Mylex Acceleraid 170 RAID controller (DAC960 controller).  This is because of the unusual partition scheme used by the driver: the first logical disk is /dev/rd/c0d0 and the partitions are /dev/rd/c0d0p1,  /dev/rd/c0d0p2, etc.  Howerver parted expects the naming scheme to be the usual for devfs (../disc, ../part1, ../part2, and so on).  As a result partman attempts to mount/format unexisting devices.  I do not know how to fix this.  In my opinion this is not a bug in parted but in the DAC960 driver.
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Package: installation-reports
Severity: critical

Debian-installer-version: sarge-i386-netinst of 7 April
Method: Boot from CD
Machine: Athlon64 with Mylex Acceleraid 170 RAID Controller

Problem:
The installer is unable to create partitions.
If I do partitions with other tools (or Woody), the installer lists them
but is unable to select them and set properties (as type of file system,
mount point, etc).

In other words, D-I is unable to do anything on server with DAC960 driver.

I think that the problem could be that the partition scheme used by
the driver is unusual. Here are some examples:
/dev/rd/c0d0 : first logical disk
/dev/rd/c0d0p1 for first partition of first disk
/dev/rd/c0d1p2 for second partition of second disk

And so on.

Thanks,
Alex

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d-i has not used devfs in quite a while, and AFAIK (though I can't
test), dac960 and similar all work with it now.

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