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Hi

I have assembled a new server with the following components:

Tyan S2880 Thunder K8S Mainboard
2 AMD Opteron 244 1,8GH, FSB 800
6 Seagate ST3200822AS (S-ATA, 200 GB)
660W power supply
...
and a RocketRAID 1820

I have installed SUSE 9.1 on a disc attached to the internal ATA controller from the mainboard.
Then I downloaded the latest kernel from kernel.org (2.6.8.1) and the highpoint package for openbuild (rr182x-openbuild-v1.1.tgz).

I have created a RAID-1 and a RAID-5 group. I have no problems to partition the RAID-1, format it with ext2 and use it.
But I am not able to mount the RAID-5 system. What I do is the following:

linux:~ # fdisk /dev/sdb

The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 48642.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
(e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)

Command (m for help): n
Command action
e extended
p primary partition (1-4)
p
Partition number (1-4): 1
First cylinder (1-48642, default 1):
Using default value 1
Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (1-48642, default 48642): +200GB

Command (m for help): t
Selected partition 1
Hex code (type L to list codes): 83

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/sdb: 400.0 GB, 400099246080 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 48642 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 24316 195318238+ 83 Linux

Command (m for help): w
The partition table has been altered!

Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table.
Syncing disks.

linux:~ # mke2fs /dev/sdb1
mke2fs 1.34 (25-Jul-2003)
Filesystem label=
OS type: Linux
Block size=4096 (log=2)
Fragment size=4096 (log=2)
24428544 inodes, 48829559 blocks
2441477 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user
First data block=0
1491 block groups
32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group
16384 inodes per group
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208,
4096000, 7962624, 11239424, 20480000, 23887872

Writing inode tables: done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done

This filesystem will be automatically checked every 22 mounts or
180 days, whichever comes first. Use tune2fs -c or -i to override.

linux:~ # mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1,
or too many mounted file systems

Info from the raid-controller:

linux:/mnt # cat /proc/scsi/hptmv/3
RocketRAID 182x SATA Controller driver Version 1.1

Physical device list
Controller Channel Model Capacity Status Array
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Controller 1 Channel 1 ST3200822AS 190782MB Normal RAID_5_0
Controller 1 Channel 2 ST3200822AS 190782MB Normal RAID_5_0
Controller 1 Channel 3 ST3200822AS 190782MB Normal RAID_5_0
Controller 1 Channel 4 ST3200822AS 190782MB Normal RAID_1_0
Controller 1 Channel 5 ST3200822AS 190782MB Normal RAID_1_0

Logical device list
No. sd Type Name Capacity Status
------------------------------------------------------------------------
1 /dev/sdb RAID 5 RAID_5_0 381564MB Normal
2 /dev/sdc RAID 1 RAID_1_0 190782MB Normal

Have I done something wrong?. Is there a problem with RAID-5 and the openbuild-driver?
RAID-1 works fine!

Hope somebody can help me with this urgent problem

Regards

Thomas