From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 20 23:41:41 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36EA516A4CE for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 23:41:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ranger.systems.pipex.net (ranger.systems.pipex.net [62.241.162.32]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EAD843D39 for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 23:41:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from robert@irrelevant.com) Received: from albert.mosthosts.net (81-86-155-6.dsl.pipex.com [81.86.155.6]) by ranger.systems.pipex.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D251E000152; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 00:41:36 +0100 (BST) Received: from greebo.irrelevant.com (dhcp63.internal.irrelevant.com [192.168.0.63]) by albert.mosthosts.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 449D948; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 01:00:48 +0100 (BST) Message-Id: <6.1.2.0.0.20041021002858.056f4820@albert> X-Sender: irrelevant1@albert X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.1.2.0 Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 00:41:15 +0100 To: Christian Hiris <4711@chello.at>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org From: Rob In-Reply-To: <200410202000.01902.4711@chello.at> References: <6.1.2.0.0.20041020115046.0560bec0@albert> <41764968.2050301@netcabo.pt> <6.1.2.0.0.20041020151406.028a9ec0@albert> <200410202000.01902.4711@chello.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Subject: Re: 5.3b7 and ata raid1 - how? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 23:41:41 -0000 Hi Christian, thanks for the reply! At 18:59 20/10/2004, Christian Hiris wrote: >On Wednesday 20 October 2004 16:22, Rob wrote: > > The page from the archive states to use atacontrol to set up the raid. If > > you check my question again, you will see that I have already tried this, > > and although after creating ar0 with atacontrol it shows "ready" to > > `atacontrol status ar0`, after a reboot it has vanished again. There is > > definitely a lack of persistence in settings from this command now. > >Did you run the 'atacontrol create' command from the *5.3* live-filesystem >cd? >There were some ataraid enhancements back in June 2004, that broke my sii680 >arrays. So, if you create your array on the sii680 with an older ataraid >version, it's possible that the actual ataraid version is unable to dedect >them. I was using the version as installed by 5.3-BETA7-i386-disc1.iso downloaded on 3rd October.. I did notice that it didn't spot the array already present on the drives from a 4.10 test installation, but assumed that was because of the different versions. My worry is that it doesn't spot a raid array that it created itself! >I tried 5.3-BETA7-i386-miniinst.iso as of yesterday and it was able to >identify the array on the sii680. (What I did, was deleting the ata-raid >magic-blocks and gave gmirror a try). I'll download the miniiinst, and see how that fares tomorrow, and will also read up on gmirror. I've not really delved into pure software raid much, after scrubbing a couple of discs trying to get vinum going :-) - I'd bought the 0680 cards initially thinking it was a proper hardware raid, but it seemed simple enough to get going with atacontrol under 4.10 - I just didn't expect to get any problems with 5.x when setting up another machine. Thanks for the suggestions, Rob.