From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 1 14:54:35 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 6A61116A4CE for ; Wed, 1 Sep 2004 14:54:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: from altus-escon.com (altesco.xs4all.nl [213.84.124.55]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B0C443D2F for ; Wed, 1 Sep 2004 14:54:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ben@stuyts.com) Received: from [193.78.231.14] (benjoam.altus-escon.com [193.78.231.14]) by altus-escon.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i81EsWPe013297 for ; Wed, 1 Sep 2004 16:54:32 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ben@stuyts.com) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed To: current@freebsd.org From: Ben Stuyts Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 16:54:31 +0200 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) X-Virus-Scanned: clamd / ClamAV version 0.75.1, clamav-milter version 0.75c on earth.altus-escon.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Subject: atacontrol rebuild, 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, 01 Sep 2004 14:54:35 -0000 Hi, I have installed beta-2 (31082004) on a Supermicro 5013C-T (P4SCE motherboard with ICH5R, and two WD 74 GB Raptor SATA drives, which I want to mirror). I know the ICH5R is not a real raid controller, but I'm trying to get it to work using atacontrol and the built-in RAID1 support. Using the procedure described in http://www.techno-obscura.com/~delgado/notes/fbsd-ich5SATAraid.html (thanks!) I managed to get FreeBSD installed on RAID1 on ar0. Next I tried to remove a drive (atacontrol detach), and even zeroed the first area of the disk. After reattaching the drive, I cannot get atacontrol to rebuild the drive. If I do atacontrol rebuild ar0, it does absolutely nothing. From browsing this mailing list I see that this seems to be a problem with using non-raid controllers, but will this be improved in the future? Or am I doing something wrong? What other options do I have? Is geom-vinum ready for this? All I want is a fully mirrored system (incl root and swap). I could put a simple raid controller in, like the Promise S150 TX2Plus or TX4, but if I can get it to work with the ICH5R controller that would be great. Thanks, Ben