From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 30 15:38:16 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 871BF1065680 for ; Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:38:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from betty.computinginnovations.com (mail.computinginnovations.com [64.81.227.250]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 261C28FC13 for ; Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:38:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from p28.computinginnovations.com (dhcp-10-20-30-100.computinginnovations.com [10.20.30.100]) (authenticated bits=0) by betty.computinginnovations.com (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m3UFc41r051367; Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:38:06 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Message-Id: <6.0.0.22.2.20080430103752.0256e788@mail.computinginnovations.com> X-Sender: derek@mail.computinginnovations.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.0.22 Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:39:50 -0500 To: Roberto Nunnari , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Derek Ragona In-Reply-To: <48181B1E.7080809@supsi.ch> References: <4816C6D2.8090309@supsi.ch> <48181B1E.7080809@supsi.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080430-1, 04/30/2008), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.93/6806/Wed Apr 16 15:50:16 2008 on betty.computinginnovations.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-MailScanner-ID: m3UFc41r051367 X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-From: derek@computinginnovations.com X-Spam-Status: No Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Re: raid and dump/restore after the disaster 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: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:38:16 -0000 At 02:09 AM 4/30/2008, Roberto Nunnari wrote: >Hi! > >Anybody on this, pleeeease? :) > >Am I missing something basilar, or it's a FreeBSD bug? >Incomplete support for the ICH9R? > >I cannot attach the boot log, because the boot process >panics just before mounting the disks and nothing is >logged on /var/log/ > >Anyways, booting in verbose mode shows that the last >activities before it panics are on the disks and fakeraid.. >it finds one of the disks and then the last output before >the panic is about the Intel MatrixRAID. > >Any thoughts on this, please? > >Best regards >Robi > > >Roberto Nunnari wrote: >>Hi all! >>I'm playing with new HW and FreeBSD 6.3 and 7.0. >>I set up raid 1 on two sata disks (fakeraid on ICH9R) >>and as long as I can see, it seams to work very well. >>Now I'm trying to simulate 1 disk failure (I just take >>out a disk and boot again). Doesn't matter which of the >>two disks I take out, the bios correctly shows the raid >>as degraded and bootable, loads the FreeBSD loader, who >>loads the kernel and starts the boot. >>But when the kernel comes to the drives (or the swap?) >>it fatal traps 12. The trap descriptions sais that >>current process is 0 (swapper). >>Reading that I commented out the swap partition from fstab, >>but that doesn't help. >>How can I get the system to finish the boot? >>Thank you and best regards. > I believe these are software RAID and the support for the failover is in the system BIOS. If a drive fails, you need to replace the failed drive and rebuild the array. If you want hot swapable drives in an array, you will need to use a different RAID card that supports that feature. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.