From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 21 13:06:00 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65AFB16A4CE for ; Mon, 21 Jun 2004 13:06:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: from out2.smtp.messagingengine.com (out2.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EFFC43D53 for ; Mon, 21 Jun 2004 13:05:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from judmarc@fastmail.fm) Received: from server2.messagingengine.com (server2.internal [10.202.2.133]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79C57C0CE44 for ; Mon, 21 Jun 2004 09:05:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: by server2.messagingengine.com (Postfix, from userid 99) id B4DA282950; Mon, 21 Jun 2004 09:05:57 -0400 (EDT) Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME::Lite 1.4 (F2.72; T1.001; A1.62; B3.01; Q3.01) To: "freebsd-questions" Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 08:05:57 -0500 From: "Jud" X-Sasl-Enc: EV/sG0CHlBmjwU0YTSoDpA 1087823157 Message-Id: <1087823157.15631.198849612@webmail.messagingengine.com> Subject: How to Cure Disk/Controller (RAID) Problem? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 13:06:00 -0000 I have an ASUS A7V333 motherboard with a Promise 20276 onboard chip controlling two IBM 120GXP 40GB hard drives in RAID-0 (striped) configuration. This configuration has operated flawlessly for years. However, in the past two weeks, twice when rebooting after the preliminary stages of a DragonFlyBSD installation (disklabel -B -r -w ar0s3 auto), my RAID array has come up broken. Rather than a two-disk array, it shows in the Promise FastTrack BIOS as two striped "arrays" consisting of one 40-gig drive each. After putting the array back together using the BIOS (deleting the two single-disk arrays and re-creating the two-disk RAID-0), the first two slices/partitions in the array (Win2K and a static pagefile) look normal, but the third gives nonsensical status information in both Windows and *BSD, e.g., a size of 1600+ GB. Neither Win nor *BSD will format this slice/partition. IBM's Drive Fitness Test (DFT) shows both disks operating normally. When I tried to use DFT to write zeroes to both disks preparatory to reinstalling from backup images, DFT responded that this utility was only available with IBM drives. (??) (This is an older version of DFT. I have downloaded the most recent version, but haven't had time to try it yet.) I'd very much appreciate advice/recommendations regarding where the problem might be and how to cure it. Jud