Bug#291928: 2.4.27: medley.o not recognising stripe set
Package: kernel
Version: 2.4.27-2-386_2.4.27-7_i386 (the one used in the Debian
Installer daily build for 21/1/05)
This bug report is a sequel to 286939 and 258500. Bug #258500 should be
closed. Bug #286939 is outstanding - here is some more information:
I have two Maxtor 160Gb SATA HDs. With the "siimage" driver, they show
up as hde and hdg. With the "sata_sil" driver, they show up as sda and
sdb.
I have both drives combined into a single 320Gb "fakeraid" stripe set.
The first partition (/dev/ataraid/d0p1) has WinXP installed and it works
fine.
When I try to use the Debian Installer (daily build 21/1/05), I use
expert mode (using 2.4.27) and manually "modprobe medley.o" on the
BusyBox console on Alt-F2. This pulls in ataraid.o but does not
recognize the stripe set. The error message is "Medley RAID: No usable
RAID sets found".
If I try the silraid.o module instead, I get the same result with a
different error message: "driver for Silicon Image(tm) Medley(tm)
hardware version 0.0.1: No raid array found"
Now here is the interesting part: when I boot with my Knoppix 3.6 CD, it
automatically loads medley.o and finds the stripe set fine!!
Knoppix 3.6 uses the kernel package "kernel-image-2.4.27-10.00.Custom".
It has both siimage and sata_sil compiled in, but the drives show up as
hde and hdg so I know it's siimage which is being used. The output of
dmesg shows that it tries the silraid driver first, but that doesn't
work (same error message as above). It then tries the medley driver, and
it works - stripe set 0, 2 disks, 305GiB, etc.
Just thought you'd like to know. Keep up the good work. Please let me
know if I can provide any further information, or try anything
different.
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