Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 04:13:36 -0600 From: Daniel Rench <drench@gmail.com> To: Georg Auernhammer <rusisnoc@bera.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: amd64 + RAID freezing system Message-ID: <e94f934d0512230213g9911db8v7ce807eae023ecba@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20051222122323.GA32562@bera.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> References: <20051222122323.GA32562@bera.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
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On 12/22/05, Georg Auernhammer <rusisnoc@bera.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote: > Hello! > > i have an amd64 with Sata 80Gig Hardisk and extra RAID: > [...] > newfs and mounting ar0 works. > but as sonn as i am trying to write data on the RAID, the system > freezes. > i had some problems writing the label to ar0s1d > but after some reboots he managed to write the label on ar0. > only thing is, i cant write data... > > Any suggestions? I just dealt with a situation that sounds similar. I have an x86 box with a Promise SATA card with 2 drives in a RAID1 that had been running fairly well for several months. Then it suddenly froze up (no reboot, nothing written to the console). After a power cycle the system froze during fsck. In single user mode I was able to get it mounted readonly without fsck, and could read some files, but before too long it would freeze again. I pulled one of the drives and rebooted. Same behavior. Then I pulled that drive and put the other one back. Fsck completed and it now works fine (aside from no mirroring going on anymore of course). Short version: though it sure seems like one of the drives had gone bad, the Promise card didn't notice. It may say the array is "READY" you shouldn't trust it.
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