Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 18:00:39 GMT From: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@ambrisko.com> To: freebsd-i386@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: i386/100160: [mfid] Perc5i: additional symptomatic info on virtual disk detection issue Message-ID: <200609071800.k87I0das053865@freefall.freebsd.org>
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From: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@ambrisko.com>
To: Jeffrey Williams <jeff@sailorfej.net>
Cc: bug-followup@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org,
freebsd-i386@freebsd.org, dmartin@euitt.upm.es
Subject: Re: i386/100160: [mfid] Perc5i: additional symptomatic info on virtual
disk detection issue
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 10:50:19 -0700 (PDT)
Jeffrey Williams writes:
| I don't know if anyone specifically is working on this, but just tried
| to install FreeBSD 6.1 from CD on a Dell 2950 with the PERC 5/i SAS
| controller.
|
| This server was originally configured with two hardware RAID virual
| disks, the first was RAID 1 with two 36GB drives, and the second was
| RAID 5 with three 72 GB drives.
|
| Just like the original PR, the first was detected and identified in the
| the installer volume setup as both mfid0 and mfid1.
|
| In order to try and work around the problem and just get the machine up
| and running, I tried deleting the RAID 1 virtual disk with the intention
| of installing everything to the RAID 5 virtual disk, however, with the
| first virtual disk removed, no drives where detected at all.
|
| Next I will be trying removing the physical drives original used in the
| RAID 1 virtual disk, and re-initializing the RAID 5 array. I will
| provide an update if successful.
|
| In the meantime if anybody else is aware of another work around of fix
| for this, I appreciate hearing about it. If a patch comes out soon, I
| will be happy to provide testing, but I have a small window as this
| server was being implemented as an emergency replacement for another server.
Upgrade the mfi driver to -stable.
Doug A.
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