[gentoo-amd64] HighPoint Raid Card "Baptized" drives

[gentoo-amd64] HighPoint Raid Card "Baptized" drives

[P.V.Anthony]

Hi,

I have just encountered this issue and what to know if this is normal 
behavior.

1. Installed the Highpoint RocketRaid 2320 (fake raid)
2. Created some JBOD drives
3. Installed the card drivers
4. Make ext3 filesystem on the drives
5. mount the drives.
6. load some data to the drives

Upto here everything is fine. Now comes the funny part.

7. shutdown the server
8. move the drive to sata ports on the ICH7 chip
9. get an error on the motherboard bios
10. gentoo linuxs starts up but the drive cannot be seen on /proc/partitions

I thought my motherboard has a problem.

11. So inserted the drive into an external case with firewire.
12. Connected it to a Mac and it sees it as 2TB drive when it is only a 
  500G drive
13. tried to format the drive on the Mac but failed

Any ideas where I when wrong?

P.V.Anthony
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] HighPoint Raid Card "Baptized" drives

[Joshua Hoblitt]

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On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 11:27:55PM +0800, P.V.Anthony wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have just encountered this issue and what to know if this is normal 
> behavior.
> 
> 1. Installed the Highpoint RocketRaid 2320 (fake raid)
> 2. Created some JBOD drives
> 3. Installed the card drivers
> 4. Make ext3 filesystem on the drives
> 5. mount the drives.
> 6. load some data to the drives

Did you do a step 3.5, partitioning the disk?  Or did you try to put the
filesystem on the raw block device?

-J

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] HighPoint Raid Card "Baptized" drives

[P.V.Anthony]

On this day, 27-April-2007 5:35 AM,  Joshua Hoblitt wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 11:27:55PM +0800, P.V.Anthony wrote:
>> 1. Installed the Highpoint RocketRaid 2320 (fake raid)
>> 2. Created some JBOD drives
>> 3. Installed the card drivers
>> 4. Make ext3 filesystem on the drives
>> 5. mount the drives.
>> 6. load some data to the drives
> 
> Did you do a step 3.5, partitioning the disk?  Or did you try to put the
> filesystem on the raw block device?

Yes. The partition was made.

The "Staggered Drive Spinup" option was enabled on the card. I suspect 
that the other chips cannot recognize this. I will disable that and see 
if it helps.

P.V.Anthony
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] HighPoint Raid Card "Baptized" drives

[Joshua Hoblitt]

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On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 09:23:56AM +0800, P.V.Anthony wrote:
> On this day, 27-April-2007 5:35 AM,  Joshua Hoblitt wrote:
> >On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 11:27:55PM +0800, P.V.Anthony wrote:
> >>1. Installed the Highpoint RocketRaid 2320 (fake raid)
> >>2. Created some JBOD drives
> >>3. Installed the card drivers
> >>4. Make ext3 filesystem on the drives
> >>5. mount the drives.
> >>6. load some data to the drives
> >
> >Did you do a step 3.5, partitioning the disk?  Or did you try to put the
> >filesystem on the raw block device?
> 
> Yes. The partition was made.
> 
> The "Staggered Drive Spinup" option was enabled on the card. I suspect 
> that the other chips cannot recognize this. I will disable that and see 
> if it helps.

Why do you think you an option in your RAID card's BIOS would affect a
SATA controller that's part of your motherboards south bridge?  I'd like
to suggest that it would be easier to diagnose your problem, and easier
for others to help you, if you stopped randomly changing variables in
system.

Now, you say connected a supposedly working SATA disk directly to one of
the ports on your southbridge and you got a "BIOS error" (I assume by
that you mean an is an error was reported during your motherboards
POST).  What was that error?

-J

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