Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 14:05:46 +0300 From: Dmitry Alyabyev <dimitry@al.org.ua> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems booting with a degraded RAID1 Message-ID: <ah67ea$2did$1@news.kiev.sovam.com> References: <20020716223625.GA11595@bsdguru.com>
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Ben Lovett wrote: > Has anyone else noticed any problems with booting a system with a > degraded RAID1 array? On a system with a on board HPT370 (Abit > KG7-RAID), it will drop me to a "root device selection" if the RAID is > in degraded mode. While this will generally not be a problem, it will > become one if the machine gets rebooted (forcefully or not) before the > dead hard disk is replaced. Currently the only way to bring the > system back up is to rebuild the array from the BIOS, which will keep > the machine down for the 30-45 minutes that it takes to rebuild the > array. > > Anyone have any work arounds, or fixes for this? AFAIR a lot of RAD-cards support background rebuilding so you can just start rebuild from BIOS and after reboot the process has re-start too. -- Dimitry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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