From owner-freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 16 08:48:36 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2213816A4CE; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 08:48:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: from spider.deepcore.dk (cpe.atm2-0-53484.0x50a6c9a6.abnxx9.customer.tele.dk [80.166.201.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BD7743D2F; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 08:48:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sos@DeepCore.dk) Received: from [194.192.25.143] (laptop.deepcore.dk [194.192.25.143]) by spider.deepcore.dk (8.12.11/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j2G8mVNT000429; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 09:48:33 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from sos@DeepCore.dk) Message-ID: <4237F2C3.7080500@DeepCore.dk> Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 09:48:03 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050116) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pawel Jakub Dawidek References: <20050315120131.6F96B16A4EE@hub.freebsd.org> <20050316082807.GR9291@darkness.comp.waw.pl> In-Reply-To: <20050316082807.GR9291@darkness.comp.waw.pl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-mail-scanned: by DeepCore Virus & Spam killer v1.7 cc: Randy Bias cc: sos@FreeBSD.ORG cc: freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GEOM mirror automatic rebuilds X-BeenThere: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: GEOM-specific discussions and implementations List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 08:48:36 -0000 Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: > On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 07:19:46PM -0600, Randy Bias wrote: > +> Folks, > +>=20 > +> A, hopefully, quick question. I have GEOM running with a pair of=20 > +> SATA drives on an ICH6R intel controller. If I pull a drive while = running=20 > +> and then reinsert it into the bay the GEOM mirror does not=20 > +> automatically rebuild. I have to run 'atacontrol reinit ata3' to=20 > +> reinitialize the drive before GEOM recognizes the provider and begin= s=20 > +> the rebuild. The drive after being re-inserted does not show up in = > +> 'atacontrol list' nor do I see any console messages that it was=20 > +> detected on insert. > +>=20 > +> Is this a general problem? Is 'atacontrol reinit' required? Or is= =20 > +> this a failing in the driver for the ICH6 controller? >=20 > I don't know hwere the problem is, but I'm sure it is not gmirror probl= em:) > From gmirror perspective I just need to get provider which I can taste = and > recognize. >=20 > I'm CCing sos@, maybe he can tell more about this issue. You will need the ATA mkIII patches to get hotplug support (ie auto=20 discovery of inserted devices). But beware only a few controllers=20 support that, and the ich6 (in the way we use it anyhow) is not amongst=20 those (currently only SiI and Promise IIRC). --=20 -S=F8ren