Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:29:11 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: stef@memberwebs.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Vital Patches for ataraid with Intel Matrix RAID (ICH7) Message-ID: <200803271129.12772.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20080322045846.58F8D94C804@mx.npubs.com> References: <20080320131638.7E66B94C853@mx.npubs.com> <200803220937.33552.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20080322045846.58F8D94C804@mx.npubs.com>
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--nextPart5747352.PgCTCiOgY6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sat, 22 Mar 2008, Stef Walter wrote: > Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > I have seen this bug in other ATA RAID implementations (VIA & > > Promise) too. From what I can tell this part of your patch is > > general to all ATA RAID arrays, right? > > Yes, a small part. The part that will write out the RAID information > (thus updating the generation) whenever the status changes, > regardless of whether that change takes place when the machine is off > or not. I am fairly astonished that the ataraid code didn't do that already :( > Without testing, I can't be sure whether this solves the problem on > other ataraid devices. I don't have ready access to such systems anymore, we switched to 3ware=20 controllers after seeing problems with broken arrays. =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart5747352.PgCTCiOgY6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBH6vFg5ZPcIHs/zowRAt1oAJ41o1lfHyrp1gWBZZsbBIzeptGwTACfcNnC adHx65ASWcXCKoWQE2DVO8E= =aVW+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart5747352.PgCTCiOgY6--
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