From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 15 12:52:44 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5122816A4CE for ; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 12:52:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.thilelli.net (jgabel.net1.nerim.net [80.65.226.192]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B392C43D39 for ; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 12:52:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jpeg@thilelli.net) Received: from localhost (localhost.thilelli.net [127.0.0.1]) by bento.thilelli.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 591B078C50; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 21:52:39 +0200 (CEST) Received: from bento.thilelli.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (bento.thilelli.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 64543-02; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 21:52:38 +0200 (CEST) Received: from webmail.thilelli.net (localhost.thilelli.net [127.0.0.1]) by bento.thilelli.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 620A178C4B; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 21:52:38 +0200 (CEST) Received: from 192.168.0.105 (SquirrelMail authenticated user jgabel) by webmail.thilelli.net with HTTP; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 21:52:38 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <50544.192.168.0.105.1082058758.squirrel@webmail.thilelli.net> In-Reply-To: <5236.1082057026@critter.freebsd.dk> References: Your message of "Thu, 15 Apr 2004 20:46:01 +0200." <50267.192.168.0.105.1082054761.squirrel@webmail.thilelli.net> <5236.1082057026@critter.freebsd.dk> Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 21:52:38 +0200 (CEST) From: "Julien Gabel" To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at thilelli.net cc: Poul-Henning Kamp Subject: Re: Can't *write* to a hard disk, problem related to GEOM(4)? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 19:52:44 -0000 >>/dev/ad10 was previously part of a hardware miror (ar(4) device with a >>HighPoint HPT374 (channel 2+3) UDMA133 controller), but since it was >>broken for an unknown reason, thid drive is no more usable, even alone. >>For example, I am not be able to create a new slice on it. > Could you try to compile a kernel without the ar(4) driver in it ? > It may still be latching on to this disk... Not really. On this machine I had 4 drives: - ar0 (formed with ad4 & ad6) for the system; - previously ar1 (formed with ad8 & ad10) for the data/home directories. Now, the data are simply mounted on ad8, but the first mirror still exists... If I try to break volontarily the first miror not to use the ar(4) driver, is it possible to reuse it later in order to be able to rebuild the mirors in the futur? -- -jpeg.