Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 00:03:07 -0700 From: Cameron Berkenpas <cam@eleventhhourfx.com> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SiI 3132 goes crazy and marks both disks as "Reserved" after each reboot Message-ID: <201107180003.07821.cam@eleventhhourfx.com> In-Reply-To: <4e242274.1QWXzsZLtmzggAeS%perryh@pluto.rain.com> References: <1352622184.20110718002715@serebryakov.spb.ru> <4e242274.1QWXzsZLtmzggAeS%perryh@pluto.rain.com>
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On Monday, July 18, 2011 05:09:24 AM perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote: > Lev Serebryakov <lev@freebsd.org> 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"
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