Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 05:09:24 -0700 From: perryh@pluto.rain.com To: lev@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SiI 3132 goes crazy and marks both disks as "Reserved" after each reboot Message-ID: <4e242274.1QWXzsZLtmzggAeS%perryh@pluto.rain.com> In-Reply-To: <1352622184.20110718002715@serebryakov.spb.ru> References: <1352622184.20110718002715@serebryakov.spb.ru>
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Lev Serebryakov <lev@freebsd.org> wrote: > Hello, Freebsd-hardware. > > I've added SiI 3132-based controller with two SATA disks to > system, and almost lost my sanity: "gstripe" configuration > becomes lost after each reboot. After some investigation, > I found, that after each reboot last sector of disk contains > SiI meta-information instead of GEOM:STRIPE one. > > SiI RAID uitility shows disks as "Reserved disks," but refuse > to delete RAID volume, as here is no one. > > How to reset this state? And where SiI controller store > information (additional to last sector)? Dunno what-all else may be needed, but one way to preserve the SiI metadata would be, instead of gstriping the disks themselves, make a slice (MBR) or partition (GPT) on each disk -- a little smaller than the whole disk -- and gstripe those slices or partitions.
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