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Date:      Mon, 2 Feb 2004 14:36:34 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
To:        Putinas Piliponis <putinas.piliponis@icnspot.net>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: atacontrol problems
Message-ID:  <20040202143424.H75850@carver.gumbysoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <02b801c3e9d7$cf629250$0464a8c0@spotripoli.local>
References:  <02b801c3e9d7$cf629250$0464a8c0@spotripoli.local>

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On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Putinas Piliponis wrote:

> just playing with raids on 5.2.1-RC
> atacontrol create RAID1 ad6 ad6
> ar0 created
> atacontrol detach 3
> gives panic

Feeding invalid configurations to ATA RAID is a good way to end up with a
bloody foot.  It would be nice to sanity-check something like that,
though.

ATARAID is known to not be wonderfully stable in the face of bizarre
setups and failure; its a known limitation. The future plan is to replace
the current framework with something more robust.

-- 
Doug White                    |  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
dwhite@gumbysoft.com          |  www.FreeBSD.org



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