Bug 36342
| Summary: | Configuring partitions on Mylex RAID disks problematic | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | David Tonhofer <david.tonhofer> |
| Component: | MAKEDEV | Assignee: | Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 7.0 | ||
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| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2001-04-17 19:21:43 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Not a kernel bug, but MAKEDEV (which makes the /dev stuff) The kernel imposes a limit of 7 logical partitions per drive. There are no device numbers allocated for partitions beyond that. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0) Hardware: This is a standard PC-PIII 500MHz with an Intel motherboard and a DAC960 RAID solution from Mylex (a PCI-SCSI card with three harddisks attached, uses RAID level 5, BIOS 4.10-41). Events: 0) Decided to set up Linux RD7.0 1) Tried to set up the external SCSI disk drives as controlled by the DAC960 controller. Partitioned the drive using fdisk. (For the layout: see below) After I quit fdisk, the setup program (anaconda?) gives an error from fdisk: "An error occurred reading the partition table for the block device rd/c0d0. The error was: no free resources". --> How do I find out what kind of resources it needs? Had to "skip" the device and install everything on /dev/hda only. 2) Tried to set up RAID device from within the freshly installed RH7.0 Linux. Partitioned /dev/rd/c0d0 using fdisk into 3 primary (of which one swap) + 1 extended partition (with 5 sub-partitions) Then called up mkfs on each of the /dev/rd/c0d0p{1...9} except the for extended partition, /dev/rd/c0d0p4. Noticed that /dev/rd/c0d0p9 does not exist, so I did 'mknod'. After that, for c0d0p8 and c0d0p9, Linux balks with the msg: "device not configured while trying to determine filesystem size" --> Do I have to rebuild the kernel for c0d0p8 & c0d0p9? I think not. Notice that mkfs /dev/c0d0 works, so I guess there is no problem with the geometry (128 heads, 32 sectors, 8715 cylinders for a total of 17430MB) 3) I tried various configurations of the partitions... anything up to /dev/c0d7 works.