From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 5 15:20:33 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7E5E16A4CE for ; Tue, 5 Apr 2005 15:20:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mxc1.crockettint.com (chameleon1.crockettint.com [206.224.72.162]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4104943D45 for ; Tue, 5 Apr 2005 15:20:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from emartinez@crockettint.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.crockettint.com [127.0.0.1]) by mxc1.crockettint.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F12836EB6; Tue, 5 Apr 2005 10:20:32 -0500 (CDT) Received: from mxc1.crockettint.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mxc1.crockettint.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 93557-04; Tue, 5 Apr 2005 10:20:28 -0500 (CDT) Received: from memnoch (ausc1.crockettint.com [24.153.230.82]) by mxc1.crockettint.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3D9836EC5; Tue, 5 Apr 2005 10:20:27 -0500 (CDT) From: "Edgar Martinez" To: "'Emanuel Strobl'" , Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 10:20:28 -0500 Organization: Crockett International MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.6353 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2527 Thread-Index: AcU5wAy6x9dHnC+wQH6x6pxn/1/XsAAMODEg In-Reply-To: <200504051115.25902@harrymail> Message-Id: <20050405152027.D3D9836EC5@mxc1.crockettint.com> X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at crockettint.com Subject: RE: Promise TX2 Rebuild via atacontrol?? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: emartinez@crockettint.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2005 15:20:33 -0000 I apologize...I usually am the one complaining to others about versioning...my bad... I do not think that the drive is at fault as much as the controller. I have had to deploy well over one hundred of the exact same configuration, and historically, it's always been the controller that just drops the drive for some reason. I usually end up re-mirroring the array on the old "dead" drive and the system will continue on its merry way (last one is over 1 year old since last resync)...hence you see why I am curious if I could just use atacontrol instead of taking the unit offline and spending 45min waiting for the resync.... ######## TECHNOJARGON BELOW ######## FBSD 5.3 STABLE Promise TX2 Orig BIOS ad4: 114473MB [232581/16/63] at ata2-master UDMA100 ad6: 114473MB [232581/16/63] at ata3-master UDMA100 ar0: 114440MB [14589/255/63] status: READY subdisks: disk0 READY on ad4 at ata2-master disk1 READY on ad6 at ata3-master Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ar0s1a ad4: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=5861119 ad4: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA timed out ar0: WARNING - mirror lost -----Original Message----- From: Emanuel Strobl [mailto:emanuel.strobl@gmx.net] Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 4:15 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; emartinez@crockettint.com Subject: Re: Promise TX2 Rebuild via atacontrol?? Am Montag, 4. April 2005 23:29 schrieb Edgar Martinez: > All, > > > > I have a failed member in a RAID1 array and using atacontrol can see that > the status is degraded. I am curious if I can use atacontrol to rebuild the > array if the original array was built using the Promise BIOS utility. If I > tell atacontrol to rebuild.will it corrupt my data or catch fire and > explode?? You don't tell us what version you use, but promise is supported very well, even in atamkII in 6-current. If you replace the failed drive it sould be automatically rebuilt, the `atacontrol rebuild ar0` doesn't work as long as you (in 5.x) used "addspare" or the controller found a good "spare" drive. In 4.x you don't have the addspare option, you have to `atacontrol detach 3` and reattach it the same way to get recognized and inserted as spare in an existing array. -Harry > > > > Cheers! > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"