From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 26 16:36:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA20331 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 26 May 1998 16:36:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sendero.simon-shapiro.org (sendero.simon-shapiro.org.142.69.207.in-addr.arpa [207.69.142.25] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA20219 for ; Tue, 26 May 1998 16:36:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shimon@sendero.simon-shapiro.org) Received: (qmail 1956 invoked by uid 1000); 27 May 1998 00:37:43 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <19980527005732.29188@follo.net> Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 20:37:43 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org Organization: The Simon Shapiro Foundation From: Simon Shapiro To: Eivind Eklund Subject: Re: Weird behaviour in BootEasy Cc: Mike Smith , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 --- Sincerely Yours, Simon Shapiro Shimon@Simon-Shapiro.ORG 770.265.7340 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message