From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon May 7 16: 8:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mailfarm.ipfnet.net (mailfarm.ipfnet.net [195.211.129.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FFBD37B422 for ; Mon, 7 May 2001 16:08:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ml-freebsd-hardware@phobgate.de) Received: from [192.168.2.94] (router-195-211-129.ipfnet.net [195.211.129.1]) (authenticated as bsd@phobgate.de) by mailfarm.ipfnet.net (8.11.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id f47N8mW84955 for ; Tue, 8 May 2001 01:08:48 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 01:08:48 +0200 From: alex Reply-To: alex To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Gigabyte GA-7ZXR with onboard Promise IDE RAID 0+1 Controller - booting FreeBSD-4.2 from mirrored Array Message-ID: <1441650205.989284128@[192.168.2.94]> X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.0.8 (Win32) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org hi there, I have a Gigabyte GA-7ZXR with the onboard Promise IDE ATA100 RAID Controller (supports RAID 0 and 1, single / mixed). I installed FreeBSD 4.2 release on a RAID 1 (mirroring) and rebooted. No problems so far. But when I power off and remove one disk, FreeBSD stops while booting missing /dev/ar0 (I installed on /dev/ar0s1a, b, e, f -> RAID Array) with the following message: can't stat /dev/ar0s1a: No such file or directory any ideas? On the other side, while installing / partitioning the disk I had /dev/ad4 and /dev/ad6 as options too for partitioning, not only /dev/ar0 ...?? This makes me wondering, does FreeBSD see them as an Array and additionally as 2 single disks? When i think about this, does FreeBSD recongnise a broken Array as a 'standalone disk' (no array, just the disk itself) instead 'this disk is part of array which is just not complete'..? when using mirroring, this shouldn't be handled this way, i think. in my opinion mirroring means, the still systems runs, even with only one disk. or am i wrong? maybe at the time 4.2 was released, there was no support for booting a broken mirrored array. if it's now, then please tell and forgive me :) I was looking for documentation for this Promise Controller under FreeBSD but didn't find something usefull about support of Arrays under FreeBSD (stripe / mirror), that's why i ask you. hope you can help me, thanks in advance. if you need more informations, tell me. alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message