From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG  Thu Sep  9 21:01:54 2004
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>
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 153A716A4CE
	for <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>;
	Thu,  9 Sep 2004 21:01:54 +0000 (GMT)
Received: from spider.deepcore.dk
	(cpe.atm2-0-53484.0x50a6c9a6.abnxx9.customer.tele.dk [80.166.201.166])
	by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 605C143D46
	for <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>;
	Thu,  9 Sep 2004 21:01:53 +0000 (GMT)	(envelope-from sos@DeepCore.dk)
Received: from [194.192.25.143] (laptop.deepcore.dk [194.192.25.143])
	by spider.deepcore.dk (8.12.11/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i89L1qBT041173;
	Thu, 9 Sep 2004 23:01:52 +0200 (CEST)
	(envelope-from sos@DeepCore.dk)
Message-ID: <4140C496.30803@DeepCore.dk>
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2004 23:01:10 +0200
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= <sos@DeepCore.dk>
User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.2 (X11/20040802)
X-Accept-Language: en-us, en
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: Harald Schmalzbauer <h@schmalzbauer.de>
References: <20040831214945.47235.qmail@web50602.mail.yahoo.com>
	<20040908190119.V81868@carver.gumbysoft.com>
	<200409092227.32060@harryhomeworkstation>
In-Reply-To: <200409092227.32060@harryhomeworkstation>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
cc: Kenneth Stailey <kstailey@yahoo.com>
cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Problem with SiI3114 SATA RAID using 5.3-BETA1-20040823
X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1
Precedence: list
List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current
	<freebsd-current.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current>,
	<mailto:freebsd-current-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-current-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current>,
	<mailto:freebsd-current-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2004 21:01:54 -0000

Harald Schmalzbauer wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 9. September 2004 04:03 schrieb Doug White:
>=20
>>On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Kenneth Stailey wrote:
>>
>>>I'm trying to upgrade a TYAN Tiger K8WS S2875S from FreeBSD-5.2.1-p8 t=
o
>>>5.3-BETA1-20040823.
>>>
>>>It fails because instead of seeing the SiI3114 as ar0 (RAID-1) it sees=

>>>two separate disks:
>>
>>[...]
>>
>>Can you post the output of boot -v, or at least the part where its tryi=
ng
>>to detect the metadata type?
>=20
>=20
> If you're interested in the result for the sil0649(0680) chipset you ca=
n find=20
> them here (RELENG_5 from today compared to 5.2.1-RELEASE):
>=20
> http://www.schmalzbauer.de/statics/sil0680-v-boot-5.2.1-live.txt
> http://www.schmalzbauer.de/statics/sil0680-v-boot-5.3BETA3-09.09.04.txt=

>=20
>=20
> Note the "ar: LSI check1 failed" line
> It's broken since June the 25th when rev. 1.27 for ata-raid.h was commi=
ted.=20
> Reverting to sources before that date at least atacontrol created array=
s were=20
> detected, even nor rebuild was possible, but that's another story. For =
now,=20
> upgrading to 5.3 is not possible if you have a system installed on ar0 =
with=20
> the sil chips.

Depends on what BIOS and metadata you have on there, simple as that.
Now, maybe we should make ata-raid go through all the types it knows on=20
all controllers, but that could really mess up things when disks are=20
moved around between controllers.
I'll think about a workable solution but its fairly long down the TODO=20
list..

-S=F8ren