Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 18:56:18 +0200 From: Gabriel Ambuehl <gaml@buz.ch> To: Harald Schmalzbauer <h@schmalzbauer.de> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Whay is broken ATARAID that ignored? Message-ID: <469105510.20040712185618@buz.ch> In-Reply-To: <200407120229.48866@harryhomeworkstation> References: <200407120229.48866@harryhomeworkstation>
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Hi Harald Schmalzbauer, you wrote. HS> The man page still claims to support these controllers. But they've never HS> really been. As soon as one drive fails, the support fails because no rebuild HS> is possible (with -stable). It is. However, you will have to detach and attach the channel with the failed drive (after replacing it) so the controller knows there is a drive to be rebuilt on (now it would make more sense if ataraid was smart enough to figure that out itself but alas, it's not). Then try rebuild again. As to Silicon Image, well that's pure, utter crap. Doesn't even work with vendor provided W2K drivers on that platform. HS> People like me take these man pages as reference and purchase hardware which HS> is said to be supported. It IS supported (in stable, anyhow, can't comment about recent CURRENT). HS> Or fix it. At least there should be a note in UPDATING. It's horrible to find HS> out that suddenly the system doesn't detect ar0 any more!!! HS> And nobody cares about for over two weeks....... Well I do agree the rebuild procedure should be described better. If you want a troublefree (S)ATA RAID solution, nothing beats the 3Ware cards. But cheap they aren't. Regards, Gabriel
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