Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 00:10:52 -0400 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: Jim King <jim@jimking.net> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3Ware troubles Message-ID: <jo18ou4jsi5rk50ikj0aqiusppsk9sc7cf@4ax.com> In-Reply-To: <3D81FBC9.2070508@jimking.net> References: <3D81FBC9.2070508@jimking.net>
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I ran into a problem like this on a windows box. The 3ware utils were no help then to me either. We ended up imaging the disk to a new one which is probably your best bet with FreeBSD via dump and restore. ---Mike On Fri, 13 Sep 2002 09:52:57 -0500, in sentex.lists.freebsd.hardware you wrote: >I have a 3Ware 6200 with the latest firmware with a pair of drives in a >RAID1 config. One of the drives flaked out, the 6200 marked the drive >as bad, and kept on running - all is good. I replaced the failed drive >and tried to rebuild the array, but original drive that's still on the >6200 comes up with a read error towards the end of the disk and the >firmware aborts the rebuild. Help! > >3Ware says the latest 3dm on Windows and Linux has a "force rebuild" >option that will ignore read errors during a rebuild. Unfortunately it >doesn't look like this option is available from the 3Ware BIOS or from >the FreeBSD version of 3dm. Does anybody know a trick to initiate a >"force rebuild" short of booting Linux or Windows on the box? > >Any other suggestions on recovery? I'm down to either booting Windows, >rebuilding the array, and then replacing the second flaky drive; or just >giving up and doing a complete reinstall (after replacing the flaky drive). > >Any comments on FreeBSD's support of 3Ware these days? It appears that >after Mike Smith left the project no one has done any significant work >(e.g. getting the latest 3dm). I don't exactly feel comfortable with >the 3Ware/FreeBSD combo any more. > >Jim > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net) Sentex Communications Corp, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada "Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers could setup a national IP network." (KDW2) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the messagehelp
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