Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 19:17:28 +0000 From: "Dieter BSD" <dieterbsd@engineer.com> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SiI 3132 goes crazy and marks both disks as "Reserved" after each reboot Message-ID: <20110719191730.105100@gmx.com>
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> I've added SiI 3132-based controller with two SATA disks to system, > and almost lost my sanity: "gstripe" configuration becomes lost after > each reboot. After some investigation, I found, that after each reboot > last sector of disk contains SiI meta-information instead of > GEOM:STRIPE one. I have a couple of SiI 3132 controllers (Masscool XWT-PCIE10) with GPT partitioned disks, and the last sectors still appear to contain the Sec GPT headers after several reboots. > How to reset this state? And where SiI controller store information > (additional to last sector)? I suspect your card's BIOS code. You could see if your mainboard has an option to not run expansion card BIOS code. You could see if there is a better version of BIOS code available for your card. <KLUDGE> If all else fails, you could create a backup copy of the last sector and have dd(1) restore it from rc.local or cron @reboot. </KLUDGE>
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