Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 13:01:48 +0100 From: Frode Nordahl <frode@nordahl.net> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= <sos@DeepCore.dk> Cc: 'FreeBSD Current' <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ATA mkIII first official patches - please test! Message-ID: <1c79a97c7b838683d3602ece514c0dbf@nordahl.net> In-Reply-To: <42053B33.5020500@DeepCore.dk> References: <42028F29.1030801@DeepCore.dk> <107e33f70745912acda0e41e7148a31b@nordahl.net> <42053B33.5020500@DeepCore.dk>
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On Feb 5, 2005, at 22:31, S=F8ren Schmidt wrote: > Frode Nordahl wrote: >> On Feb 3, 2005, at 21:52, S=F8ren Schmidt wrote: >>> ATA-mkIII first official snapshot. >> # atacontrol status ar0 >> atacontrol: ioctl(ATARAIDSTATUS): Inappropriate ioctl for device >> # atacontrol rebuild ar0 >> atacontrol: ioctl(ATARAIDREBUILD): Inappropriate ioctl for device >> I tried to copy in sys/sys/ata.h to /usr/include/sys/ and rebuild=20 >> atacontrol as well. > > Those ioctl's are not supported yet. As stated ataraid can only read=20= > the metadata so far, not write them. I didn't implement the status=20 > ioctl as its part of the interface to write metadata (ie create=20 > arrays), and I havn't made up my mind yet on that... I actually have a system with a failed drive in it now. :-) Whenever the erronous parts of the disk is read, it properly takes the=20= disk out of service and tells about the raid being degraded. However if I reboot, the drive with errors is back in business and used=20= as master of the array. I'm not sure how this is supposed to work, but I guess we at least need=20= limited support for metadata write so we can tell the "controller", and=20= ourselves about the state of our disks. I hope you will retain the online rebuild feature when this is done? I can live without support for configuring RAIDs, but online rebuild=20 would be tough to be without. Having to go to BIOS for rebuild and wait=20= for an hour before the system can be online again is a nightmare :-) Or do you think this is a job for vendor supplied management tools? Regards, Frode Nordahl > --=20 > > -S=F8ren > >
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