Misc,
For several weeks I was battering with Raid 1 and OpenBSD. I had some help from a few people, specifically Alexis de BRUYN who frequents this list often, but I never managed to get it working. Basically what happened was it would seam to work all the way up to copying the data and parity using these two commands; raidctl -vF component0 raid0 raidctl -vP raid0 When I run the first command, I would get the "quiescence reached." but the ETA bar wouldn't appear, the system would then hang and just stopped, not panic or crash.just sit there. Being quite new to OpenBSD I was sure this was me being stupid, typing a command wrong or something, I was following this guide http://www.linux.com/articles/52713 so I wasn't sure if something was wrong in the guide. Eventually, I had to give up and put it down to hardware problems but never getting a full answer. Alexis de BRUYN was sure what I was doing was correct, so yesterday I fired up VMware and tried it again, it worked, the ETA bar came up, I even managed to run the raidctl -vP raid0 command (something I never got to do before). So, it is a hardware problem; now the motherboard I am using is a Q35 chipset board, quite new chipset really, it's the Gigabyte GA-Q35M-S2 which, again, isn't a particularly old board. Being very anal, I believe any server running should have RAID 1 for the OS unless it's doing nothing special at all, so for RAID to not be working, especially on a board which isn't that old, is a bit worrying for me. Ok, the board is a desktop board not a server board (it suffices for this project) but I still think it should be working with a popular chipset such as this. I want to help out the community if I can and I wondered if I doing some testing was worth it. Someone could have a simple answer of "it's not a highly used board so we don't bother" or something along those lines, but I thought as I've spent some time investigating this and I have a second Q35 board lying around I can test it on again, if someone thinks I should carry out some tests of RAID and this board/chipset, I will go ahead and report my findings. I can send any info on the board if anyone wants it, to check the details over. Let me know what you think Chris
