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Date:      Fri, 30 Jan 2009 02:38:55 -0800 (PST)
From:      Gabe <nrml@att.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   atacontrol + highpoint raid & hot-swappable bays = reboot?
Message-ID:  <597584.81252.qm@web83809.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>

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Hello list,

I've come upon a problem I've googled the daylights out of, further I've read atacontrol(8) up and down without success. My goal is simple, I have a supermicro 1U with hot-swappable drive bays which hold 2 SATA drives that are connected to a PCI highpoint rocket raid card. I need to be able to simulate a failure on HDD1 (drive bay 2) and I've been trying to do it by following the handbook here: [18.4.3] http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/raid.html to no avail.

atacontrol detach ata3
<pull drive out>
<wait some time>
<put drive in>
atacontrol attach ata3
<HDD is recognized and listed in 'list' command>
atacontrol addspare ar0 ata3

Now this is when I encounter a "Device Busy" error. In order to recover from this I've tried detaching and attaching to no avail, rebooting just makes atacontrol status ar0 only show disk 1 even though disk 2 (ata3) is listed in atacontrol list.

See below for a transcript from the shell, hopefully someone can provide some insight before I flip out. :)

Thanks,

/gabe

  atapci0@pci0:1:3:0:	class=0x010400 card=0x00011103 chip=0x00051103 rev=0x02 hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'Triones Technologies Inc. (HighPoint)'
    device     = 'HPT372x UDMA/ATA133 RAID Controller'
    class      = mass storage
    subclass   = RAID

Jan 30 02:19:00 amnesiac kernel: hptrr: HPT RocketRAID controller driver v1.1 (Feb 24 2008 19:59:27)
Jan 30 02:19:00 amnesiac kernel: ar0: 76319MB <HighPoint v2 RocketRAID RAID1> status: READY

Script started on Fri Jan 30 02:21:01 2009
amnesiac# atacontrol  list

ATA channel 0:

    Master:      no device present

    Slave:       no device present

ATA channel 1:

    Master: acd0 <CD-224E/1.9A> ATA/ATAPI revision 0

    Slave:       no device present

ATA channel 2:

    Master:  ad4 <ST380817AS/3.42> Serial ATA v1.0

    Slave:       no device present

ATA channel 3:

    Master:  ad6 <ST380817AS/3.42> Serial ATA v1.0

    Slave:       no device present

amnesiac# atacontrol  status  ar0

ar0: ATA RAID1 status: READY

 subdisks:

   0 ad6  ONLINE

   1 ad4  ONLINE

amnesiac# atacontrol  detach  ata2

amnesiac# tail  -n5  /var/log/messages 

Jan 30 02:19:00 amnesiac savecore: no dumps found

Jan 30 02:19:39 amnesiac login: ROOT LOGIN (root) ON ttyv0

Jan 30 02:21:38 amnesiac kernel: ar0: WARNING - mirror protection lost. RAID1 array in DEGRADED mode

Jan 30 02:21:38 amnesiac kernel: subdisk4: detached

Jan 30 02:21:38 amnesiac kernel: ad4: detached

amnesiac# atacontrol  attach  ata2

Master:  ad4 <ST380817AS/3.42> Serial ATA v1.0

Slave:       no device present

amnesiac# atacontrol  status  ar0

ar0: ATA RAID1 status: DEGRADED

 subdisks:

   0 ad6  ONLINE

   1 ---- MISSING

amnesiac# atacontrol  list

ATA channel 0:

    Master:      no device present

    Slave:       no device present

ATA channel 1:

    Master: acd0 <CD-224E/1.9A> ATA/ATAPI revision 0

    Slave:       no device present

ATA channel 2:

    Master:  ad4 <ST380817AS/3.42> Serial ATA v1.0

    Slave:       no device present

ATA channel 3:

    Master:  ad6 <ST380817AS/3.42> Serial ATA v1.0

    Slave:       no device present

amnesiac# atacontrol  addspare  ar0  ad4

atacontrol: ioctl(IOCATARAIDADDSPARE): Device busy

amnesiac# ^Dexit

Script done on Fri Jan 30 02:22:47 2009



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