From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 18 07:03:13 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6D551065670 for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 07:03:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cam@eleventhhourfx.com) Received: from eleventhhourfx.com (Neuromancer-1-pt.tunnel.tserv15.lax1.ipv6.he.net [IPv6:2001:470:c:e3a::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C95608FC0C for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 07:03:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from amuro.localnet (neo-zeon.de [173.228.7.225]) (authenticated bits=0) by eleventhhourfx.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p6I738E1097896 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 00:03:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cam@eleventhhourfx.com) From: Cameron Berkenpas To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 00:03:07 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.6 (Linux/2.6.39.3; KDE/4.6.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <1352622184.20110718002715@serebryakov.spb.ru> <4e242274.1QWXzsZLtmzggAeS%perryh@pluto.rain.com> In-Reply-To: <4e242274.1QWXzsZLtmzggAeS%perryh@pluto.rain.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201107180003.07821.cam@eleventhhourfx.com> X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=3.5 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on eleventhhourfx.com Subject: Re: SiI 3132 goes crazy and marks both disks as "Reserved" after each reboot X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 07:03:14 -0000 On Monday, July 18, 2011 05:09:24 AM perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote: > Lev Serebryakov wrote: > > Hello, Freebsd-hardware. > > > > I've added SiI 3132-based controller with two SATA disks to > > > > system, and almost lost my sanity: "gstripe" configuration > > becomes lost after each reboot. After some investigation, > > I found, that after each reboot last sector of disk contains > > SiI meta-information instead of GEOM:STRIPE one. > > > > SiI RAID uitility shows disks as "Reserved disks," but refuse > > > > to delete RAID volume, as here is no one. > > > > How to reset this state? And where SiI controller store > > > > information (additional to last sector)? > > Dunno what-all else may be needed, but one way to preserve the SiI > metadata would be, instead of gstriping the disks themselves, make > a slice (MBR) or partition (GPT) on each disk -- a little smaller > than the whole disk -- and gstripe those slices or partitions. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hardware-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"