Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 00:41:15 +0100 From: Rob <robert@irrelevant.com> To: Christian Hiris <4711@chello.at>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.3b7 and ata raid1 - how? Message-ID: <6.1.2.0.0.20041021002858.056f4820@albert> In-Reply-To: <200410202000.01902.4711@chello.at> References: <6.1.2.0.0.20041020115046.0560bec0@albert> <41764968.2050301@netcabo.pt> <6.1.2.0.0.20041020151406.028a9ec0@albert> <200410202000.01902.4711@chello.at>
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Hi Christian, thanks for the reply! At 18:59 20/10/2004, Christian Hiris wrote: >On Wednesday 20 October 2004 16:22, Rob wrote: > > The page from the archive states to use atacontrol to set up the raid. If > > you check my question again, you will see that I have already tried this, > > and although after creating ar0 with atacontrol it shows "ready" to > > `atacontrol status ar0`, after a reboot it has vanished again. There is > > definitely a lack of persistence in settings from this command now. > >Did you run the 'atacontrol create' command from the *5.3* live-filesystem >cd? >There were some ataraid enhancements back in June 2004, that broke my sii680 >arrays. So, if you create your array on the sii680 with an older ataraid >version, it's possible that the actual ataraid version is unable to dedect >them. I was using the version as installed by 5.3-BETA7-i386-disc1.iso downloaded on 3rd October.. I did notice that it didn't spot the array already present on the drives from a 4.10 test installation, but assumed that was because of the different versions. My worry is that it doesn't spot a raid array that it created itself! >I tried 5.3-BETA7-i386-miniinst.iso as of yesterday and it was able to >identify the array on the sii680. (What I did, was deleting the ata-raid >magic-blocks and gave gmirror a try). I'll download the miniiinst, and see how that fares tomorrow, and will also read up on gmirror. I've not really delved into pure software raid much, after scrubbing a couple of discs trying to get vinum going :-) - I'd bought the 0680 cards initially thinking it was a proper hardware raid, but it seemed simple enough to get going with atacontrol under 4.10 - I just didn't expect to get any problems with 5.x when setting up another machine. Thanks for the suggestions, Rob.
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