From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 12 16:56:11 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4880916A4CE for ; Mon, 12 Jul 2004 16:56:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: from iota.root-servers.ch (iota.root-servers.ch [193.41.193.195]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3881143D4C for ; Mon, 12 Jul 2004 16:56:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gaml@buz.ch) Received: (qmail 45246 invoked from network); 12 Jul 2004 16:56:09 -0000 Received: from 80-218-104-238.dclient.hispeed.ch (HELO ga) (80.218.104.238) by 0 with SMTP; 12 Jul 2004 16:56:09 -0000 Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 18:56:18 +0200 From: Gabriel Ambuehl X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <469105510.20040712185618@buz.ch> To: Harald Schmalzbauer In-Reply-To: <200407120229.48866@harryhomeworkstation> References: <200407120229.48866@harryhomeworkstation> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Whay is broken ATARAID that ignored? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Gabriel Ambuehl List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 16:56:11 -0000 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