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Date:      Sun, 19 Dec 2004 00:15:15 +0100
From:      Matthias Schuendehuette <msch@snafu.de>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Cc:        Nikolaj Hansen <nikolaj.hansen@barnabas.dk>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 5.3 and vinum upgrade #2
Message-ID:  <200412190015.16449.msch@snafu.de>
In-Reply-To: <1103409359.52279.2.camel@zappa.Chelsea-Ct.Org>
References:  <41C48A6F.7000203@barnabas.dk> <1103409359.52279.2.camel@zappa.Chelsea-Ct.Org>

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Am Samstag, 18. Dezember 2004 23:35 schrieb Paul Mather:
>
> The biggest problem you'll have is if your system suffers the ATA
> "TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA" woe that bedevils some of us under 5.3.  When
> that happens, your mirror will be knocked into a degraded state (half
> of your mirrored plexes will be marked down) even though the drive is
> okay. Unfortunately, without "setstate" being implemented in "gvinum"
> to mark the drive as up, thereby allowing you to issue "gvinum
> start"s for the "downed" plexes, there's little more you can do to
> get the "failed" drive recognised as being in the "up" state other
> than to reboot. [...]

'gvinum setstate' was MFCed from -current together with 'gvinum 
checkpatity' and 'gvinum rebuildparity' a week ago or so...

So that should make it easier to handle these ATA-Problems...

-- 
Ciao/BSD - Matthias

Matthias Schuendehuette	<msch [at] snafu.de>, Berlin (Germany)
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