Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 09:48:03 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= <sos@DeepCore.dk> To: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GEOM mirror automatic rebuilds Message-ID: <4237F2C3.7080500@DeepCore.dk> In-Reply-To: <20050316082807.GR9291@darkness.comp.waw.pl> References: <20050315120131.6F96B16A4EE@hub.freebsd.org> <b993e586e5e4071e7d9161d786b0e8f5@kozoru.com> <20050316082807.GR9291@darkness.comp.waw.pl>
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Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: > On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 07:19:46PM -0600, Randy Bias wrote: > +> Folks, > +> > +> A, hopefully, quick question. I have GEOM running with a pair of > +> SATA drives on an ICH6R intel controller. If I pull a drive while running > +> and then reinsert it into the bay the GEOM mirror does not > +> automatically rebuild. I have to run 'atacontrol reinit ata3' to > +> reinitialize the drive before GEOM recognizes the provider and begins > +> the rebuild. The drive after being re-inserted does not show up in > +> 'atacontrol list' nor do I see any console messages that it was > +> detected on insert. > +> > +> Is this a general problem? Is 'atacontrol reinit' required? Or is > +> this a failing in the driver for the ICH6 controller? > > I don't know hwere the problem is, but I'm sure it is not gmirror problem:) > From gmirror perspective I just need to get provider which I can taste and > recognize. > > I'm CCing sos@, maybe he can tell more about this issue. You will need the ATA mkIII patches to get hotplug support (ie auto discovery of inserted devices). But beware only a few controllers support that, and the ich6 (in the way we use it anyhow) is not amongst those (currently only SiI and Promise IIRC). -- -Sørenhome | help
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