Lev Serebryakov <[email protected]> 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. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
