From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 16 04:54:49 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 BF97016A4CE for ; Fri, 16 Apr 2004 04:54:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.thilelli.net (jgabel.net1.nerim.net [80.65.226.192]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C13E43D39 for ; Fri, 16 Apr 2004 04:54:49 -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 E2E0378C70; Fri, 16 Apr 2004 13:54:44 +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 11239-02-3; Fri, 16 Apr 2004 13:54:44 +0200 (CEST) Received: from webmail.thilelli.net (localhost.thilelli.net [127.0.0.1]) by bento.thilelli.net (Postfix) with SMTP id F014F78C65; Fri, 16 Apr 2004 13:54:43 +0200 (CEST) Received: from 192.168.0.105 (SquirrelMail authenticated user jgabel) by webmail.thilelli.net with HTTP; Fri, 16 Apr 2004 13:54:43 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <50219.192.168.0.105.1082116483.squirrel@webmail.thilelli.net> In-Reply-To: <407FC4B1.20806@DeepCore.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> <49481.192.168.0.105.1082110471.squirrel@webmail.thilelli.net> <407FC4B1.20806@DeepCore.dk> Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 13:54:43 +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 cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= 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: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 11:54:49 -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... >> Since the ar(4) driver is part of ata(4) generic ATA/ATAPI disk >> controller driver, I don't think it is possible to do that without >> shooting myself on the foot. Any ideas? > In -current and 5.something you can disable ATA RAID support by > commenting out the "device ataraid" line. Ok. So I will disable the ataraid support in the kernel, reboot without no mirror (and no support for it) and... what am I suppose to try in this particular situation? I am not sur what you want me to test in this case. Will just re-enable the ataraid support and reboot be sufficient to release the latch? Thanks, -- -jpeg.