Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 19:09:03 +0200 From: Harald Schmalzbauer <h@schmalzbauer.de> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Gabriel Ambuehl <gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch> Subject: Re: Whay is broken ATARAID that ignored? Message-ID: <200407121909.09517@harryhomeworkstation> In-Reply-To: <469105510.20040712185618@buz.ch> References: <200407120229.48866@harryhomeworkstation> <469105510.20040712185618@buz.ch>
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--Boundary-02=_1Ws8ALcTgyo3ORB Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Am Montag, 12. Juli 2004 18:56 schrieb Gabriel Ambuehl: > 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. But only if you replace the drive or null-out the first sectors. If the dr= ive=20 comes back after a reboot (the same drive) then you end up having two raid= =20 arrays. That's not what I call a working raid support! > > 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). No, if you create a raid array with the controllers BIOS FreeBSD doesn't ca= re=20 about. Also of you Shutdown the machine, power on the machine, modify files= ,=20 power down, reconnect the drive and power up again FreeBSD (and the=20 controller) don't recognice the broken mirror and FreeBSD ist panicing! Regardless wether it's the vendors fault or the ataraid fault, it doesn't w= ork=20 so this should be mentioned! > > 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. I know and I have one running here, but that's not a reason to list=20 controllers as working when they are not. Not to mention the completely broken ataraid in -current. =2DHarry > > > Regards, > Gabriel > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" --Boundary-02=_1Ws8ALcTgyo3ORB Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBA8sW1Bylq0S4AzzwRAoQSAJ0Zu8jxZKDbUY80ZQhiRwRgdburxACcDIS4 LOKd1IrzGjgOyktW7auCBiQ= =pmlM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Boundary-02=_1Ws8ALcTgyo3ORB--
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