Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 20:37:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org> To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Weird behaviour in BootEasy Message-ID: <XFMail.980526203743.shimon@simon-shapiro.org> In-Reply-To: <19980527005732.29188@follo.net>
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On 26-May-98 Eivind Eklund wrote:
> On Tue, May 26, 1998 at 07:55:06PM -0400, Simon Shapiro wrote:
>> On 26-May-98 Eivind Eklund wrote:
>> > The interesting point here is that I _haven't_ re-initialized the
>> > array - I still have the original DOS slice I got from you. I've
>> > concatenated the two slices used to hold the 15 or so BSD paritions to
>> > a single slice with a boot partition, a swap partition, and a lagre
>> > 'e' partition for sources + homedir.
>>
>> This is probably where the error is. I found out that moving partitions
>> like that causes these symptoms. I am not so sure how DPT-specific this
>> is.
>
> I've never seen it on another controller. I can do more tests, but I
> think it is likely it is specific.
The only way I can think of is if the two disks have differing data in each
of the mirror images. How can that happen is beyond me. Unfortunately
your controller is sufficiently old that it uses EPROMs instead of FLASH
ROM, so updating it is a bit more problematic.
>> > I've run dptmgr.com (or something like that) from DOS a couple of
>> > times and re-built one disk, but I've not done anything that should
>> > have changed the basic array.
>>
>> Re-building a RAID-1 array simply copies one disk to the other.
>> I do not know what you mean by re-building in the context of RAID-0.
>
> It's a RAID-1, so it is/should be just copying.
Yup. Try to delete the array and re-create it, making SURE you COPY the
data rather than ``clear both drives''.
Simon
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Sincerely Yours,
Simon Shapiro Shimon@Simon-Shapiro.ORG
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