*** Announcement: dmraid 1.0.0-rc1 available at http://people.redhat.com:~heinzm/sw/dmraid
*** Announcement: dmraid 1.0.0-rc1 ***dmraid 1.0.0-rc1 available at http://people.redhat.com:/~heinzm/sw/dmraid/
in source and i386 rpm.
dmraid (Device-Mapper Raid tool) discovers, [de]activates and displays properties of software RAID sets (ie. ATARAID) and contained MSDOS partitions using the device-mapper runtime of the 2.6 kernel.
The following ATARAID types are supported on Linux 2.6:
Highpoint HPT37X
Highpoint HPT45X
Promise FastTrack
Silicon Image Medley
These ATARAID types can be discovered only in this version:
Intel Software RAID
LSI Logic MegaRAID
Please provide insight to support those metadata formats completely.
Thanks.
See file README, which comes with the source tarball for prerequisites to run this software and further instructions on installing and using dmraid!
Call for testers:
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I need testers with the above ATARAID types, to check that the mapping created by this tool is correct (see options "-t -ay") and access to the ATARAID data is proper.
You can activate your ATARAID sets without danger of overwriting your metadata, because dmraid accesses it read-only unless you use option -E with -r in order to erase ATARAID metadata (see 'man dmraid')!
This is a release candidate version so you want to have backups of your valuable data *and* you want to test accessing your data read-only first in order to make sure that the mapping is correct before you go for read-write access.
The author is reachable at <[email protected]>.
For test results, mapping information, discussions, questions, patches, enhancement requests, free beer offers and the like, please subscribe and mail to <[email protected]>.
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Regards,
Heinz -- The LVM Guy --
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Heinz Mauelshagen Red Hat GmbH
Consulting Development Engineer Am Sonnenhang 11
56242 Marienrachdorf Germany
[email protected] +49 2626 141200
FAX 924446
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