>-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Philippe Lang >Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 9:39 AM >To: Doug Poland >Cc: freebsd-questions >Subject: RE: ICH5R, ICH7R or Promise PDC20378 RAID? > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 10:18:05AM +0200, Philippe Lang wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I've got two boxes that would be perfect for a small server. The >>> motherboards are: >>> >>> - ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe, with ICH5R and Promise PDC20378 >>> - ASUS P5WD2, with ICH7R >>> >>> I intend to install FreeBSD 6.1, and I wonder which chipset you would >>> recommend me for RAID 1? I need something rock-solid, of course... >>> >> I'm running -STABLE on a P4C800-E. I've never had a problem >> with the PDC20378. Recently, I added two drives on the ICH5R >> with no issues. A little benchmarking shows the ICH5R to be a little >> faster. > >Hi, > >I wasn't as lucky as Doug with my ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe board, both with >the ICH5R and Promise RAID controller. > >1) With the Promise controller, after simulating a disk problem >(shutdown - disk disconnection - reboot - shutdown - disk reconnection - >reboot), I wasn't able to rebuild the array at all, either with >"atacontrol rebuild ar0" or from the bios. I suspect a spare disk is >necessary for a complete rebuild. > >2) With the ICH5R controller, installation went fine too. If I >disconnect a disk, the system still boots, but when I plug the disk back >(computer shut down), no boot is possible anymore. At boot, a kernel >panic says: "softdep_setup_inomapdep". No array rebuild is possible from >the bios, so I'm stuck. >
You need to take the disk you unplugged to some other machine and wipe it, then make sure the one disk with the system left on it is in the 0 position, put the wiped disk in the 1 position, then you should be able to boot. Your simulating a failure when you pull the one disk, but your not simulating a recovery when you insert that disk back in. Ted _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"