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Date:      Thu, 18 Jul 2002 14:05:46 +0300
From:      Dmitry Alyabyev <dimitry@al.org.ua>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Problems booting with a degraded RAID1
Message-ID:  <ah67ea$2did$1@news.kiev.sovam.com>
References:  <20020716223625.GA11595@bsdguru.com>

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Ben Lovett wrote:

> Has anyone else noticed any problems with booting a system with a
> degraded RAID1 array?  On a system with a on board HPT370 (Abit
> KG7-RAID), it will drop me to a "root device selection" if the RAID is
> in degraded mode.  While this will generally not be a problem, it will
> become one if the machine gets rebooted (forcefully or not) before the
> dead hard disk is replaced.  Currently the only way to bring the
> system back up is to rebuild the array from the BIOS, which will keep
> the machine down for the 30-45 minutes that it takes to rebuild the
> array.
> 
> Anyone have any work arounds, or fixes for this?

AFAIR a lot of RAD-cards support background rebuilding so you can just start 
rebuild from BIOS and after reboot the process has re-start too.

-- 
Dimitry


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