[Wilfried.Weissmann@gmx.at: Bug#277534: hal: harddisk partition scan does not check harddisk size]

[Wilfried Weissmann]

Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 08:12:49PM +0200, Wilfried Weissmann wrote:
> 
>>Kay Sievers wrote:
>>
>>>Hi Wilfried,
>>>thanks for the report.  Is it possible to get a
>>> hald --daemon=no --verbose=yes
>>
>>Hi,
>>Output is attached...
>>
>>BTW: The IDE error appear only with udev. When I use devfs no error occurs.
> 
> 
> HAL is not expected to work with devfs.  So this may be the reason not
> to get the error :)
> 
> 
>>>debug output? It would be nice to know, what exactly is going on here.
> 
> 
>>20:03:33.017 [I] linux/osspec.c:756: handling /sys/block/hdg/hdg3 block
>>20:03:33.019 [I] linux/block_class_device.c:592: volume.num_blocks = 578340
>>20:03:33.019 [I] linux/block_class_device.c:600: volume.block_size = 512
>>20:03:33.019 [I] linux/block_class_device.c:605: volume.size = 296110080
>>20:03:33.019 [I] linux/volume_id/volume_id.c:202: get buffer off 0x11a50000, len 0x800
>>20:03:33.020 [I] linux/volume_id/volume_id.c:237: read seekbuf off:0x11a50000 len:0x800
>>20:03:44.955 [I] linux/volume_id/volume_id.c:241: got 0xffffffff (-1) bytes
> 
> 
> There seems something wrong. We get a volume size of 296110080 bytes
> from the kernel, but if we seek to 296026112 we get an error.
> 
> What is the actual size of the volume?

Hi,

The partition size is correct but the partition is physically not on 
that device. The first raid device contains the partition table at the 
same position where the kernel expects the table of the standalone 
harddisk (bad, bad policy from highpoint-tech). The kernel just does not 
know that this disk is part of a raid volume and it provides block 
devices for hdg1-3.
The partition table is valid for the raid volume but not for hdg.

> 
> Thanks,
> Kay

Greetings,
Wilfried
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