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Wilku

Member

Registered: 2007-07-04

Posts: 41

Jmicron RAID 1 problem

(I made this topic a while ago in the newbie corner, but after this post there were no answers so I thought that this may be a better place to ask this question)

So I gave it another futile try installing arch. This time I used the iso image Froscon and the new problems started when I was about to partition the hard drive.

Maybe the problem is that I have 4 primary partitions from Windows Vista taking 200GB space of my 500 GB disk, but really I want to have arch, I can't live without it;)

So here we have the ls -la /dev/mapper
Code:

ls -la /dev/mapper
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root       0 2008-09-02 19:27 .
drwxr-xr-x 18 root root       0 2008-09-02 19:27 ..
crw-rw----  1 root root  10, 60 2008-09-02 19:25 control
brw-------  1 root disk 254,  0 2008-09-02 19:27 jmicron_JRAID
brw-------  1 root disk 254,  1 2008-09-02 19:27 jmicron_JRAID1
brw-------  1 root disk 254,  2 2008-09-02 19:27 jmicron_JRAID2
brw-------  1 root disk 254,  3 2008-09-02 19:27 jmicron_JRAID3
brw-------  1 root disk 254,  4 2008-09-02 19:27 jmicron_JRAID5
and here we have the dmraid -tay
Code:

dmraid -tay
jmicron_JRAID: 0 976748544 mirror core 2 131072 nosync 2 /dev/sda 0 /dev/sdb 0
jmicron_JRAID1: 0 81920000 linear /dev/mapper/jmicron_JRAID 2048
jmicron_JRAID2: 0 122880000 linear /dev/mapper/jmicron_JRAID 81922048
jmicron_JRAID3: 0 104448000 linear /dev/mapper/jmicron_JRAID 204802048
jmicron_JRAID5: 0 131072000 linear /dev/mapper/jmicron_JRAID 309252096
I went to partition the hard drive, just as the guide said, I chose other and made a couple of tries:
first
/dev/mapper/jmicron_JRAID
and it returned me
Code:

FATAL ERROR: Bad primary partition 3: Partition ends in the final cylinder
when I tried adding any number on the end 1,2,3,5 it returned me
Code:

FATAL ERROR: Bad primary partition 0: Partition ends after end-of-disk
And when I tried to write
/dev/mapper/jmicron_JRAID*
it didn't even enter cfdisk, so what should I do now?

I'm looking forward to your reply.

lilsirecho

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Registered: 2003-10-24

Posts: 5,000

Re: Jmicron RAID 1 problem

The following post may give you some help:http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=45416

I suspect that the jmicron controller is either IDE or sata but not both...Much ado in past about the jmicron controller and Intel ich9.

Perhaps some hardware info may be of help in deducing the problem?

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Wilku

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Registered: 2007-07-04

Posts: 41

Re: Jmicron RAID 1 problem

Well, I used the fake RAID installation guide, but as I said I got stuck on the preparation of my hard drive.

Hardware info.

Well the mainboard is the MSI P45 and the two hard drives are seagate 500GB. What information what you like;)?