Re: Losing my mind, RAID1 on Sparc completely broken?

[Antonio Prioglio <a.prioglio@city.ac.uk>]

On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Adam Conrad wrote:

> Following up to my previous post, here is the config for the RAID array
> that I just can't keep living:

[snip]
> 
> Disk /dev/hda (Sun disk label): 16 heads, 255 sectors, 19156 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 4080 * 512 bytes
> 
>    Device Flag    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hda1             0        20     40800   83  Linux native
> /dev/hda2            21     18665  38033760   83  Linux native
> /dev/hda3             0     19156  39078240    5  Whole disk
> /dev/hda4         18666     19156    999600   83  Linux native
> cranx:~# fdisk -l /dev/hdc
> 
> Disk /dev/hdc (Sun disk label): 16 heads, 255 sectors, 19156 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 4080 * 512 bytes
> 
>    Device Flag    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hdc1             0        20     40800   83  Linux native
> /dev/hdc2            21     18665  38033760   83  Linux native
> /dev/hdc3             0     19156  39078240    5  Whole disk
> /dev/hdc4         18666     19156    999600   83  Linux native

You need to leave the block 0 alone and start the partitions on block 1.

It is a known issue on sparcs.

Saluti,
Antonio Prioglio [antonio.prioglio@britishlibrary.net]

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