Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 13:41:16 +0100 (CET) From: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> To: debnar@o-c.sk ([Ivan Debn_r]) Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HPT370 RAID - booting Message-ID: <200012121241.NAA35339@freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <NEBBLGGDMLOMBLNHDFHFMEDGCAAA.debnar@o-c.sk> from "[Ivan Debn_r]" at "Nov 8, 2000 05:15:09 pm"
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It seems [Ivan Debn_r] wrote: [Charset iso-8859-2 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > I'm just looking at the disk partitions, and the first 63 sectors are by > default marked as unused. So is it really nescessary to have the ofset in > the ar driver for HPT? This has been changed in both -current and -stable, so use DD disks with care (ie skip the first 10 secs) > Correct me if I'm wrong, but in RAID1 it is essential to be able to take one > of the drives and boot from it almost as if it was singe simple disk. Yes, and ? that works just fine... > How does the driver handles situation when there is one of the mirror drives > broken or missing ? Not at all, you have to use the BIOS to either switch off the RAID or setup a new fresh disks or whatever you want to do. If a RAID array is broken somehow, the driver wont attach it (a safety mesure so you wont blow up the remaining disks).. > Is it possible to query the driver to check, if the drives are OK from the > userland ? No. However I have an atacontrol thingie on the bench but its not ready yet, with that you will be able to control the RAIDs and other ATA related stuff... -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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