On Sun, 2004-12-19 at 00:15 +0100, Matthias Schuendehuette wrote: > Am Samstag, 18. Dezember 2004 23:35 schrieb Paul Mather: > > > > The biggest problem you'll have is if your system suffers the ATA > > "TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA" woe that bedevils some of us under 5.3. When > > that happens, your mirror will be knocked into a degraded state (half > > of your mirrored plexes will be marked down) even though the drive is > > okay. Unfortunately, without "setstate" being implemented in "gvinum" > > to mark the drive as up, thereby allowing you to issue "gvinum > > start"s for the "downed" plexes, there's little more you can do to > > get the "failed" drive recognised as being in the "up" state other > > than to reboot. [...] > > 'gvinum setstate' was MFCed from -current together with 'gvinum > checkpatity' and 'gvinum rebuildparity' a week ago or so... > > So that should make it easier to handle these ATA-Problems...
That's great to hear! (I'd been hoping for an MFC5.) It's handy, too, as I just recently got another one of those "TIMEOUT - WRITE DMA" induced "failures," which was getting to be a real drag. :-( I'll update my 5.3-STABLE system right away... Cheers, Paul. -- e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid." --- Frank Vincent Zappa _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"