Hi
Yesterday I had a problem with a gmirror configuration and one drive
started squeaking rather unpleasantly. If I physically remove one of
the drives I don't get a normal boot0 screen i.e. F1 for FreeBSD and
F5 is Drive 0 - typical for gmirror??) but some strange character
after the 'F' - I can't find the ascii number for it but it looks like
a capital "I" (more of an I-Beam i.e. distinct flats top and bottom)
with a diamond in the centre. Hitting any key just gives a # and left
to itself there is a series of '#".
I gave up and left it overnight and today I was able to boot the good
disk and even deactivate/insert the bad disk which completed. All
seemed fine, no errors in dmesg but on reboot - all I get is the above
state. I tried the SATA controller on the mobo and a plug-in PCI cheap
one (tried two). Makes no difference. It boots fine off an IDE drive.
It boots fine using the same SATA controllers for an older non-gmirror
drive (then I simply get the F1: FreeBSD option) so I don't think it
is the cpu/memory/mobo?? I now have the same boot0 problem with either
drive from the gmirror
Anyone else seen this and have a fix? I don't want to zap the drives
since there is a working system there but just can't get to it :-)
Thanks
Neil
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