Description of problem: Specifically, I have a Promise FastTrak 376 controller (20376) controller with a Parallel IDE hard drive connected using the PATA/IDE port of this otherwise SATA controller. The controller is in the sda position with a logical partition in sda5. The dmraid system, recognizes it as: /dev/pdc_ccdejaib and /dev/pdc_ccdejaib5 However, the rc.sysinit script calls 'dmraid.static -ay -i -p -t' which only discovers and activates the device itself (pdc_ccdejaib) but not the partition (pdc_ccdejaib5). As a result, when fsck tries to check the /dev/pdc_ccdejaib5 partition cited in my fstab, it barfs since that device is non-existent being that the partition has not yet been activated. I can "solve" the problem by adding a line 'dmraid.static -ay -i' to the rc.sysinit file but that seems like a kluge. Not sure what the right way to fix this is... Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Have something like a Promise Raid FastTrack controller (on /dev/sda) 2. Add entry into fstab of form: /dev/mapper/pdc_ccdejaib5 /mnt/mydrive ext3 defaults 1 2 3. Boot linux Actual results: Crashes on fsck of the above partition Expected results: No crash Additional info:
Use "/dev/mapper/pdc_ccdejaibp5" instead of "/dev/mapper/pdc_ccdejaib5" -- initscripts is using "kpartx -a -p p /dev/mapper/pdc_ccdejaib" to build the partitions. It's done this way because some tools use the separator and some tools don't for various device-mapper devices, so this makes it _more_ consistent, even though it's slightly less obvious :/
To be clear, are you saying that I should just add the letter "p" before the partition number (5). Because, I just tried that and it didn't help. Indeed, /dev/mapper only shows the following devices: pdc_ccdejaib pdc_ccdejaib5 And running: kpartx -l -p p /dev/mapper/pdc_ccdejaib Gives: pdc_ccdejaibp5 : 0 398283354 /dev/mapper/pdc_ccdejaib 126
Still seems to be a bug. Solution suggested by Peter Jones did not resolve issue. I would be happy to help troubleshoot...
Not sure if this is relevant, but I notice that every time my kernel starts up, it gives me the following error message in /var/log/messages: kernel: device-mapper: ioctl: 4.7.0-ioctl (2006-06-24) initialised: dm-devel kernel: device-mapper: table: 253:0: linear: dm-linear: Device lookup failed kernel: device-mapper: ioctl: error adding target to table Also, on the boot screen, I see the following message: device-mapper: reload ioctl failed: Invalid argument Does this help shed any light on the problem?
Still NOT FIXED!
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