Re: striped SATA will segfault qtparted

[K.G.]

On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 10:58:41 -0400 Yasunari Tosa <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> qtparted 0.4.4   (Knoppix 4.0.2 CD boot) will crash on a SATA striped disk.
> 

Can you tell us the version of libparted (or of the parted command line util
because it's the same version).

> We have Shuttle XPC SB81P with two SATA disk setted up as striped, using 
> Intel chip set driver.
> (ICH6R RAID 0 configuration).
> 
> I started qtparted coming up with UNIONFS/dev/sda and UNIONFS/dev/sdb 
> for two drives.
> When I click on sda1, it crashed and emitted the message "Please report 
> to bug-parted".

I guess there was other informations to report along with "Please report 
to bug-parted". Can you tell us what it was?

> I think that qtparted should not crash, but should emit some message 
> saying that the disk is
> striped?

It probably should... :)

> My wish is that "qtparted" partitions a striped disk set.  

I think you can probably configurate a block device as RAID0
of /dev/sda and /dev/sdb with standard Linux tools, so you
might be able to use *Parted on the block device you obtain.

> Tosa
> P.S. I'm actually glad that Knoppix recognized the SATA drives (WinXP 
> cannot recognize
> SATA drives without loading a driver from "floppy"address@hidden).

Yeah, sometimes you don't have a floppy disk drive anymore on
today computers, so using a floppy can be pretty hard :P


Cheers,
Guillaume Knispel