Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2004 23:01:10 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= <sos@DeepCore.dk> To: Harald Schmalzbauer <h@schmalzbauer.de> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem with SiI3114 SATA RAID using 5.3-BETA1-20040823 Message-ID: <4140C496.30803@DeepCore.dk> In-Reply-To: <200409092227.32060@harryhomeworkstation> References: <20040831214945.47235.qmail@web50602.mail.yahoo.com> <20040908190119.V81868@carver.gumbysoft.com> <200409092227.32060@harryhomeworkstation>
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Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 9. September 2004 04:03 schrieb Doug White: >=20 >>On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Kenneth Stailey wrote: >> >>>I'm trying to upgrade a TYAN Tiger K8WS S2875S from FreeBSD-5.2.1-p8 t= o >>>5.3-BETA1-20040823. >>> >>>It fails because instead of seeing the SiI3114 as ar0 (RAID-1) it sees= >>>two separate disks: >> >>[...] >> >>Can you post the output of boot -v, or at least the part where its tryi= ng >>to detect the metadata type? >=20 >=20 > If you're interested in the result for the sil0649(0680) chipset you ca= n find=20 > them here (RELENG_5 from today compared to 5.2.1-RELEASE): >=20 > http://www.schmalzbauer.de/statics/sil0680-v-boot-5.2.1-live.txt > http://www.schmalzbauer.de/statics/sil0680-v-boot-5.3BETA3-09.09.04.txt= >=20 >=20 > Note the "ar: LSI check1 failed" line > It's broken since June the 25th when rev. 1.27 for ata-raid.h was commi= ted.=20 > Reverting to sources before that date at least atacontrol created array= s were=20 > detected, even nor rebuild was possible, but that's another story. For = now,=20 > upgrading to 5.3 is not possible if you have a system installed on ar0 = with=20 > the sil chips. Depends on what BIOS and metadata you have on there, simple as that. Now, maybe we should make ata-raid go through all the types it knows on=20 all controllers, but that could really mess up things when disks are=20 moved around between controllers. I'll think about a workable solution but its fairly long down the TODO=20 list.. -S=F8ren
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