I will try dd.raw out and see where I end up. Thanks.
kipp
"Matt D. Robinson" wrote:
>
> That sound about right, although I'm not entirely familiar
> with LVM to tell you a good answer.
>
> Can you use the 'dd.raw' to DD into and out of the device,
> so that you know your raw I/O is working?
>
> If so, then it's an LVM issue ... otherwise, it could still
> be a raw I/O configuration issue. Hope this helps ...
>
> --Matt
>
> On Tue, 30 May 2000, Kipp A. Aldrich wrote:
> |>
> |>>
> |>> There should be a 'raw' application available with RH 6.2 which
> |>> will bind the raw device to some block device.
> |>>
> |>> What you'd want is:
> |>>
> |>> mknod /dev/raw c 162 0
> |>> mknod /dev/raw2 c 162 2
> |>>
> |>> Then you'd run:
> |>>
> |>> raw /dev/raw2 /dev/sdb4
> |>>
> |>> (or something to that effect).
> |>>
> |>> You can get the latest raw.c from the util-linux RPM off of freshmeat.net.
> |>> If you still have problems finding it, send a mail here.
> |>>
> |>> --Matt
> |>
> |>Did that. Now if I try to use LVM's pvcreate on /dev/raw2 I get:
> |>"pvcreate -- invalid physical volume name "/dev/raw2""
> |>
> |>Guess it is not possible to use raw devices in LVM.
> |>
> |>Am I missing something here?
> |>
> |>Thanks.
> |>
> |>kipp
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> |>Digital Video Engineering
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> |>kippa@xxxxxxx 415.448.2443
> |>
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