From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) Description of problem: Install Fedora 6 on Asus P5B-V motherboard with JMicron JMB363 Raid Driver configured for Raid I. Installation proceeds normally. Upon system reboot, system hangs with a blank screen. Even the boot-loader message does not show up. Upon further investigation, the problem is due to invalid RAID device specification when the name of the RAID is fewer than 16 characters. For example, if the name of the RAID is JRAID, then Linux Fedora 6 will try to create device names such as /dev/mapper/jmicron_JRAID ^A /dev/mapper/jmicron_JRAID ^Ap1 /dev/mapper/jmicron_JRAID ^Ap2 Since there are spaces in the middle of the device names, Linux is not able to find the proper device at boot time. When the name is filled up with full 16 characters, the problem goes away. Not sure whether the problem is caused by JMicron RAID utility or Fedora 6. But JMicron recommends filing this issue to Fedora. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create RAID I mirroring hard disks on BIOS. 2. Install Fedora 6. 3. Reboot on completion. Actual Results: Blank screen appears. Expected Results: Boot loader message followed by Linux startup messages. Additional info:
Heinz, this is dmraid producing raid volume names with bad data in them, isn't it?
I also have this problem using 2.6.20-1.2937.fc6 on a Gigabyte motherboard with a JMicron JMB363.... PCI: Device 0000:03:00.0 is not available because of resource collisions JMB363: dma_base is invalid JMB363: dma_base is invalid I can however disable the JMicron controller and boot successfuly from the onboard Intel SATA controller. The last kernel that didn't exhibit this problem was 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6
Created attachment 152949 [details] patch to help with jmicron raid device names justin@jmicron forwarded this patch from the ataraid list to fix this issue
Patch reworked and added.
I have GREATLY narrowed down the issue... I have a problem with the gigabyte GA-965G-DS3 with a software raid 5 array, that has 4 drives. 3 of the drives are on the ICH8 southbridge SATA device, and another is on the JMicron SATA device. I get the array to work, build a vailid mdadm.conf and can use the array all I want. I can restart and then manually mount it. AS soon as I add it to the fstab config file, the array tries to start but fails. It seems to then do a number on my raid array, and takes me hours/days to recover. This has taken weeks of repeated rebuilds to figure out that the problem exists ONLY when I use the fstab to mount the array. My feeling is that the fstab is running before the drivers for the Micron Device are loaded. This leads to a raid array failure... If this isnt the case, then there is something wrong with the way this device is loaded when not done manually.
This is either the same issue or a bug. BTW, after using the fstab to try and load the device sde1 is no longer loaded... only sde... it appears that the failure actually deletes the partition. I can run this raid array very reliable if it is not mounted by fstab. I have a huge 750w PSU (since I plan on adding more drives) and am running the latest drivers.
I see it is listed as a fc6 issue. I am running fc7, with the latest kernel...
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