From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 19 14:08:02 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 470CC16A41F for ; Mon, 19 Sep 2005 14:08:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: from sigma.octantis.com.au (ns2.octantis.com.au [207.44.189.124]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B17BC43D5A for ; Mon, 19 Sep 2005 14:08:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: (qmail 31079 invoked from network); 20 Sep 2005 00:08:01 +1000 Received: from 203-166-227-62.dyn.iinet.net.au (HELO ?192.168.13.3?) (203.166.227.62) by sigma.octantis.com.au with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 20 Sep 2005 00:08:00 +1000 Message-ID: <432EC63C.8060101@meijome.net> Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 00:07:56 +1000 From: Norberto Meijome User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Atacontrol software RAID X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 14:08:02 -0000 Hi all, I've been trying to build a 2 disk mirror with atacontrol on a standard IDE controller (testing in vmware), from an already running 4.11 system. ad0 has the system, ad3 is the new drive. I thought I should be able to mimic the gmirror trick of making a 1 disk degraded mirror on ad3, move everything over to the raid, wipe ad0 and add it to the mirror..... # atacontrol create RAID1 ad3 fails. needs @ least 2 disks....so #atacontrol created RAID1 ad3 ad3 did the trick ;) - after a reboot it became : ar0: WARNING - mirror lost ar0: 6143MB [783/255/63] status: DEGRADED subdisks: 0 DOWN 1 READY ad3: 6143MB [12483/16/63] at ata1-slave UDMA33 and I could use ar0 as i'd expect it to (could boot off it, moved all the data from ad0 to ar0, mounted all partitions from it,etc). The problem happened when I tried to add ad0 to the mirror...i couldn't find a way to do it. atacontrol addspare is not available in 4.x systems... Any suggestions on how to get ad0 to be part of ar0? Upgrading to 5.x may be an option, but then i'd be using gmirror anyway :-) thanks in advance, Beto