From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 22 03:28:07 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49C3116A41F for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 03:28:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sean-freebsd@farley.org) Received: from mail.farley.org (farley.org [67.64.95.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC6DA43D70 for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 03:27:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sean-freebsd@farley.org) Received: from thor.farley.org (thor.farley.org [IPv6:2001:470:1f01:290:1::5]) by mail.farley.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id jAM3RifK041597; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 21:27:44 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from sean-freebsd@farley.org) Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 21:27:45 -0600 (CST) From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Se=E1n_C=2E_Farley?= To: Marcin Simonides In-Reply-To: <43825384.1070807@studio4plus.com> Message-ID: <20051121212254.L53010@thor.farley.org> References: <43825384.1070807@studio4plus.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="0-1761523166-1132630065=:53010" Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VIA 6420 RAID 0 problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 03:28:07 -0000 This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --0-1761523166-1132630065=:53010 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE 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) > 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 --=20 sean-freebsd@farley.org --0-1761523166-1132630065=:53010--