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Date:      Fri, 27 Jun 2008 09:45:41 -0700
From:      "Garrett Cooper" <yanefbsd@gmail.com>
To:        "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
Cc:        Tom Evans <tevans.uk@googlemail.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Benjamin Close <Benjamin.Close@clearchain.com>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: URGENT: Need help rebuilding iir RAID5 array with failed drive
Message-ID:  <7d6fde3d0806270945y4523ab21lc07dd9435cc53ef9@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200806271451.22639.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 10:21 PM, Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Jun 2008, Garrett Cooper wrote:
>> So.. wait a sec? Are you saying I'm fscked because my RAID5 is
>> nothing more than RAID0 under FreeBSD?!?!
>
> If you're using ATA RAID, yes.
>
> However I think you are using iir (so says your subject) so I don't
> think that applies.
>
> Unfortunately I have 0 iir experience :(
> There is no control utility mentioned in the iic(4) man page so I think
> you have to do everything with the BIOS.
>
> If it isn't possible to do it in the BIOS then that is a pretty serious
> flaw and you are probably SOL :(

Phew... I can rebuild it from the BIOS-ish Intel Matrix Manager.

FWIW the Asus tech I talked to said that he couldn't get RAID5 support
in Linux, so I don't think that OS (software) RAID5 is in existence
anywhere. Then again I could be wrong..

-Garrett



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