From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 31 00:38:52 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA21B106564A for ; Sat, 31 May 2008 00:38:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stef@memberwebs.com) Received: from mx.npubs.com (mail.writemehere.com [209.66.100.224]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9A358FC30 for ; Sat, 31 May 2008 00:38:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stef@memberwebs.com) Received: from mx.npubs.com (avhost [209.66.100.194]) by mx.npubs.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD679F183D0; Sat, 31 May 2008 00:38:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from northstar-srv2 (unknown [172.27.2.11]) by mx.npubs.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D33C7F18286; Sat, 31 May 2008 00:38:48 +0000 (UTC) From: Stef Walter User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080505) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeremy Chadwick References: <20080530210347.5E1A6F1808E@mx.npubs.com> <20080530230258.GA61615@eos.sc1.parodius.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20080531003848.D33C7F18286@mx.npubs.com> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 00:38:49 +0000 (UTC) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 31 May 2008 02:26:21 +0000 Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RAID status issues with Intel MatrixRAID ataraid X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 00:38:53 -0000 Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >> In certain conditions, even though the Firmware RAID BIOS, says that a >> RAID is degraded, the FreeBSD driver thinks it's business as usual. In >> my case this resulted in file system corruption. Relevant output below. > > See the "ATA (SATA, PATA, ATAPI)" section, specifically the Intel > MatrixRAID items: > > http://wiki.freebsd.org/JeremyChadwick/Commonly_reported_issues Yes, I reported several of those as well as provided patches for them. That was back when I had relevant hardware in my lab. Cheers, Stef Walter