Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 20:37:40 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "N3TW4LK3R" <n3tw4lk3r@gmail.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Replacing broken drive on RocketRaid 1520 SATA RAID controller Message-ID: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNMEHJFDAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <ba655e3b0602270834x57b7f09exd7cc16e963e30dba@mail.gmail.com>
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I think you have to rebuild it from the BIOS on the highpoint card. Ted >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of N3TW4LK3R >Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 8:35 AM >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Replacing broken drive on RocketRaid 1520 SATA RAID controller > > >hi, > >I'm running 5.4-RELEASE on a server with a Highpoint RocketRAID 1520 >controller. Recently one of the drives failed, but the system >kept running, >which is nice. >Now, however, I'm trying to replace the drive with a new >(almost identical) >one: > >after plugging in the drive: > ># atacontrol status ar0 >ar0: ATA RAID1 subdisks: ad4 status: DEGRADED > >ok, that's normal > ># atacontrol list >ATA channel 0: > Master: no device present > Slave: no device present >ATA channel 1: > Master: no device present > Slave: no device present >ATA channel 2: > Master: ad4 <Maxtor 6L160M0/BANC1E00> Serial ATA v1.0 > Slave: no device present >ATA channel 3: > Master: ad6 <Maxtor 6L160M0/BANC1E50> Serial ATA v1.0 > Slave: no device present > >Nice, so the drive is properly connected. > ># atacontrol addspare ar0 ad6 >atacontrol: ioctl(ATARAIDADDSPARE): Device not configured > >damn :( > >I read here: >http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-October/ 041896.html that i should try # atacontrol addspare 0 ad6 but the result is identical :( I also tried attaching and detaching ad6, overwriting the first blocks of the drive with zero's, without success. any ideas? _______________________________________________ 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" -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 268.1.0/269 - Release Date: 2/24/2006
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