On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 11:29:16AM -0400, Brian wrote: > Josh, > > I experienced this same problem during a recent migration to RAIDframe > Auto-configuration. I had a RAID 1 root auto-configured RAID set, and a > RAID 0 auto-configured set. The source tree I was using dates back to > August 5th so it is obviously outside of your 12-hour window. However, > I pinpointed my hang due to a CD-ROM being connected to the IDE port on > the motherboard. Without the CD-ROM drive, the RAIDframe Auto-configure > would proceed as expected. > > I don't know if this will help, considering I do not have a dmesg on > hand. The server is already deployed and I cannot experiment with > CD-ROM drive insertion/removal. I can tell you that the offending > CD-ROM drive is a LITE-ON CD-ROM Drive model LTN-483S if that is of any > consequence. > > And yes, RAID_AUTOCONFIG is set in the kernel config. Without it, the > RAIDframe would proceed as expected with or without the CD-ROM drive.
I received patches to rf_openbsdkintf.c which were designed to stop the CD probe, from several people. They were not effective circumventions, so that's not this particular problem. I have narrowed it down to a one hour range of patches. Ken Westerback is pursuing the issue for me.
