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Date:      Mon, 21 Nov 2005 21:27:45 -0600 (CST)
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Se=E1n_C=2E_Farley?= <sean-freebsd@farley.org>
To:        Marcin Simonides <marcin@studio4plus.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: VIA 6420 RAID 0 problem
Message-ID:  <20051121212254.L53010@thor.farley.org>
In-Reply-To: <43825384.1070807@studio4plus.com>
References:  <43825384.1070807@studio4plus.com>

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On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, Marcin Simonides wrote:

> I have (had?) two issues, perhaps connected:
> (I posted a question to freebsd-questions about it some time ago. It
> contains some additional information:=20
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2005-November/103991=
=2Ehtml)

<snip>

> The other, perhaps connected with this, issue is that I lost an
> extended partition while creating FreeBSD partition. It had happened
> before I started trying to fix the size problem described above.
>
> After slicing the newly created RAID 0 array with sysinstall and
> installing Windows, formatting NTFS and FAT slices (with Windows) I
> created BSD partitions on the first slice and lost the extended
> partition (slice). (a more detailed description of what I did is in
> the original posting to freebsd-questions).
>
> Today, after the change in kernel, I have removed FreeBSD partitions
> from the first slice and recreated them (with some differences).
> Nothing wrong happened.
>
> Could this be connected with the bug in VIA ata raid driver? Or maybe
> it was just a coincidence and/or was entirely my fault?

With the partition corruption (all of them) in a slice I reported[1] to
stable@ with the same controller, I think I smell a bug.  I do not know
if it is a VIA hardware bug or a bug in the driver.

Se=E1n
   1. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2005-November/01990=
0.html
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