From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 28 1:43:38 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E509137B405 for ; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 01:43:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from iota.root-servers.ch (iota.root-servers.ch [193.41.193.195]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8702543F43 for ; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 01:43:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gaml@buz.ch) Received: (qmail 30967 invoked from network); 28 Jan 2003 09:43:24 -0000 Received: from dclient80-218-105-144.hispeed.ch (HELO gaxp1800.root.li) (80.218.105.144) by 0 with SMTP; 28 Jan 2003 09:43:24 -0000 Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 10:44:55 +0100 From: Gabriel Ambuehl X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.62i) Educational Reply-To: Gabriel Ambuehl X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <73137740046.20030128104455@buz.ch> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Fixing degraded atacontrol based software RAID? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I have a machine running atacontrol based software RAID in which one of the disks recently failed (Maxtor, not IBM for those who want to know). Now I'm wondering how I should go about fixing this. atacontrol seems to lack a command to fix broken software only arrays. I suppose I could use dd -if workingdisk -of newdisk but atacontrol seems to block the disks during multi user (and since the box has got work to do, I can't just take it down for a few hours). Other option would be to just install a hardware RAID controller I suppose. I still have a 3ware one laying around somewhere (this one features background rebuilding, albeit very slowly) but I'd be interested to hear whether I can do background rebuilding triggered from atacontrol with Highpoint 370 or Promise Fasttrak controllers. Any comments would greatly be appreciated (as would be CCs to myself as the traffic on this list makes it sometimes hard to find the answers ;-). TIA & regards, Gabriel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message