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Date:      Wed, 9 Mar 2005 21:22:25 +0100
From:      Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Michael Riexinger <michael.riexinger@de.clara.net>
Cc:        freebsd-geom@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: gmirror metadata
Message-ID:  <20050309202225.GP9291@darkness.comp.waw.pl>
In-Reply-To: <200503091503.33431.michael.riexinger@de.clara.net>
References:  <200503091503.33431.michael.riexinger@de.clara.net>

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On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 03:03:33PM +0100, Michael Riexinger wrote:
+> Hi, 
+> 
+> i have a hp dl320 with an integrated raid controller. I don't want to 
+> use that, instead i want to use gmirror. To use the 2 IDE drives, I 
+> configured 2 raid0 arrays (each with 1 drive) in the controller's bios. 
+> Now i wanted to use gmirror, labeled the second drive. When I did a 
+> reboot, the raid controller's bios seems to overwrite the gmirror 
+> metadata with its own metadata. Is it impossible to use gmirror witch 
+> such a configuration?

I'll be very odd if controller's BIOS overwrite disk data.
Can you run 'gmirror dump <disk>' on labeled component?
Can you try label it again and run this comment directly after 'label'
command?

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Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       http://www.wheel.pl
pjd@FreeBSD.org                           http://www.FreeBSD.org
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