From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 13 08:46:52 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org 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 3E8F316A41F for ; Tue, 13 Sep 2005 08:46:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from fcooper1960@yahoo.com) Received: from web35910.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web35910.mail.mud.yahoo.com [66.163.179.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D6D2B43D45 for ; Tue, 13 Sep 2005 08:46:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from fcooper1960@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 47738 invoked by uid 60001); 13 Sep 2005 08:46:47 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=d317MXJNXOLWuBikNWTj8zj3vvZnrRwlIHKw7/bqfSSDJ6FSlwrTxFfOtsBtVurdrL++bFHA62kKW+oDKMboykkP3JpTAJ6N+zOqJkPbgp+iTuEKoEwO37egarcEgPTX4f9Q1ZB++uD9ny1PL4pDgSOlWVZjYaPgtXZLnQ3Hol0= ; Message-ID: <20050913084647.47736.qmail@web35910.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Received: from [84.137.23.77] by web35910.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 13 Sep 2005 01:46:47 PDT Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 01:46:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Frank Coopermine To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: RE: SATA Hotplug kills uninvolved gRAID3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 08:46:52 -0000 Hi, maybe you can use one computer for backups and one computer for the RAID. It's not nice but will definitely work. cu Frank > Hi, > > I am using two Promise TX4 SATA II 150 > controllers in one computer. To the > controllers three hard-disks for backups > and three hard-disks for a RAID3 storage > (graid3) are attached. > > The idea was to change the hard-disks > for the backup via hotswap on a regular > basis, while the RAID disks remain untouched. > But if I (remove and) connect only > one backup disk while the system > is running then FreeBSD also re-connects > many (but not all) uninvolved SATA drives. > At the end, the RAID is broken which > is not so good... Is there a way > to block the hotplug feature for > the RAID - ATA channels ? Or is there > another workaround/fix? > > Sep 9 20:52:02 live2 kernel: subdisk8: detached > Sep 9 20:52:02 live2 kernel: ad8: detached > Sep 9 20:52:02 live2 kernel: ata4: DISCONNECTED > Sep 9 20:52:02 live2 kernel: subdisk14: detached > Sep 9 20:52:02 live2 kernel: ad14: detached > Sep 9 20:52:02 live2 kernel: GEOM_RAID3: Device > home: provider ad14 disconnecte d. > Sep 9 20:52:02 live2 kernel: ata7: DISCONNECTED > Sep 9 20:52:02 live2 kernel: subdisk18: detached > Sep 9 20:52:02 live2 kernel: ad18: detached > Sep 9 20:52:02 live2 kernel: ata9: DISCONNECTED > Sep 9 20:52:02 live2 kernel: ata5: CONNECTED > Sep 9 20:52:02 live2 kernel: ad10: 190782MB WD2000JD-22HBC008.02D08> at a ta5-master SATA150 > Sep 9 20:52:02 live2 kernel: ata9: CONNECTED > Sep 9 20:52:02 live2 kernel: ad18: 190782MB WD2000JD-22HBC0 08.02D08> at a ta9-master SATA150 > Sep 9 20:52:02 live2 kernel: ata7: CONNECTED > Sep 9 20:52:02 live2 kernel: ad14: 238475MB WD2500SD-01KCC0 08.02D08> at a ta7-master SATA150 > Sep 9 20:52:02 live2 kernel: GEOM_RAID3: Device > home: provider ad14 detected. > Sep 9 20:52:02 live2 kernel: GEOM_RAID3: Device > home: rebuilding provider ad14 > Sep 9 20:52:02 live2 kernel: ata4: CONNECTED > Sep 9 20:52:02 live2 kernel: ad8: 190782MB WD2000JD-22HBC0 08.02D08> at at a4-master SATA150 > > best regards > > David __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com