From owner-freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 11 09:39:39 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8457516A4CE; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 09:39:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: from thekla.de.clara.net (thekla.de.clara.net [212.82.225.81]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A11E643D60; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 09:39:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from michael.riexinger@de.clara.net) Received: from localhost.de.clara.net ([127.0.0.1] helo=localhost) by thekla.de.clara.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30; FreeBSD) id 1D9ggZ-000Hwv-U4; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 10:44:00 +0100 Received: from box.int.de.clara.net ([192.168.0.226]) by thekla.de.clara.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30; FreeBSD) id 1D9ggZ-000HuU-OE; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 10:43:59 +0100 Message-ID: <42316763.20005@de.clara.net> Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 10:39:47 +0100 From: Michael Riexinger User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050107) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Mather References: <200503091503.33431.michael.riexinger@de.clara.net> <1110408229.690.8.camel@zappa.Chelsea-Ct.Org> <20050309232448.GA28861@alzatex.com> <200503100931.55627.michael.riexinger@de.clara.net> <1110478810.15725.25.camel@zappa.Chelsea-Ct.Org> In-Reply-To: <1110478810.15725.25.camel@zappa.Chelsea-Ct.Org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: "Loren M. Lang" cc: Pawel Jakub Dawidek cc: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gmirror metadata X-BeenThere: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: GEOM-specific discussions and implementations List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 09:39:39 -0000 Paul Mather wrote: > On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 09:31 +0100, Michael Riexinger wrote: > > >>The strange thing is: When I labeled the second drive with gmirror and >>rebooted the machine, the raid bios said something like 'new disk >>detected' and rebooted automatically, and then it put it's own metatata >>on it... > > > That's what I remember happening to me. After attaching the drives and > starting up again, the RAID BIOS declared something about "new disk > detected." Apparently, it also spammed over my geom_mirror metadata > with its own. I guess, for some reason, it wanted to mark the drives as > "unused/unallocated" in any of its RAIDs, rather than taking the more > polite approach of denoting an *absence* of its chosen metadata to > indicate that fact. (I wouldn't have minded so much if I'd explicitly > marked the drives as "spares" or similar, but I didn't want the RAID to > use them at all. Like I said, its behaviour was all very rude.:) > > The LSI MegaRAID IDE 100 card I was using does have an "EPROM > enable/disable" jumper on it to disable the RAID BIOS and make the card > revert (I guess) to a standard IDE controller. However, in that mode, I > couldn't seem to boot from it. That might have more to do with the > finicky Dell BIOS in my system, though... :-( Many many thanks, the board here has such a jumper too, so I think this solves my problem :) Kind regards, Michael Riexinger systems engineer -- claranet gmbh internet service provider tel +49 (0) 69 - 40 80 18 - 300 email: michael.riexinger@de.clara.net http://www.claranet.de/