RE: FW: escalation stage 2 [was:RE: Big and ugly bug in 5.1-release]

2003-07-17 Thread Harald Schmalzbauer
Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote: > Harald, > > When in doubt, install freebsd 5.x on a different drive running off of a > different controller, mount the slices from one of the disks in the RAID > array and copy your data to a safe and trusted location. Thanks for the hint, I did something like that.

Re: FW: escalation stage 2 [was:RE: Big and ugly bug in 5.1-release]

2003-07-17 Thread Andre Guibert de Bruet
Harald, When in doubt, install freebsd 5.x on a different drive running off of a different controller, mount the slices from one of the disks in the RAID array and copy your data to a safe and trusted location. Regards, > Andre Guibert de Bruet | Enterprise Software Consultant > > Silicon Landma

RE: escalation stage 2 [was:RE: Big and ugly bug in 5.1-release]

2003-07-16 Thread Harald Schmalzbauer
Lukas Ertl wrote: > On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: > > > Now after resetting the machine which was hung by "sysinstall" it claims > > that ad4 (one of two mirrored 30GB 2.5" disks" was absent (see > dmesg below) > > Now the controller warns me that one drive is bad (which in fact i

RE: Big and ugly bug in 5.1-release

2003-07-16 Thread Harald Schmalzbauer
Doug White wrote: > On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: > > > I'm experimenting with 5.1-REL for some weeks and during that time I had > > some mysterious hangs which I didn't take serious because I modified > > /usr/src/sys/cam/scsi/scsi_da.c to support my CF-Card-Reader. > > But now I

Re: escalation stage 2 [was:RE: Big and ugly bug in 5.1-release]

2003-07-16 Thread Lukas Ertl
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: > Now after resetting the machine which was hung by "sysinstall" it claims > that ad4 (one of two mirrored 30GB 2.5" disks" was absent (see dmesg below) > Now the controller warns me that one drive is bad (which in fact is > definatley not) and allow

Re: Big and ugly bug in 5.1-release

2003-07-15 Thread Doug White
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: > I'm experimenting with 5.1-REL for some weeks and during that time I had > some mysterious hangs which I didn't take serious because I modified > /usr/src/sys/cam/scsi/scsi_da.c to support my CF-Card-Reader. > But now I saw exactly the same problem

RE: escalation stage 2 [was:RE: Big and ugly bug in 5.1-release]

2003-07-15 Thread Harald Schmalzbauer
Julian Elischer wrote: > On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: > > > Now after resetting the machine which was hung by "sysinstall" it claims > > that ad4 (one of two mirrored 30GB 2.5" disks" was absent (see > dmesg below) > > mirrored by what? By ata. It is reognized as ar0 after setti

FW: escalation stage 2 [was:RE: Big and ugly bug in 5.1-release]

2003-07-15 Thread Harald Schmalzbauer
*snip* > > Now the controller warns me that one drive is bad (which in fact is > > definatley not) and allows me to select "continue boot" > > If the controler says it's bad, it may well be. > > > Now please give me a hint what to do. This is my brand new > fileserver which > > collected all im

Re: escalation stage 2 [was:RE: Big and ugly bug in 5.1-release]

2003-07-15 Thread Julian Elischer
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: > Now after resetting the machine which was hung by "sysinstall" it claims > that ad4 (one of two mirrored 30GB 2.5" disks" was absent (see dmesg below) mirrored by what? > Now the controller warns me that one drive is bad (which in fact is > def

Re: escalation stage 2 [was:RE: Big and ugly bug in 5.1-release]

2003-07-15 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 03:47:25AM +0200, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: > Now after resetting the machine which was hung by "sysinstall" it claims > that ad4 (one of two mirrored 30GB 2.5" disks" was absent (see dmesg below) > Now the controller warns me that one drive is bad (which in fact is > defin

escalation stage 2 [was:RE: Big and ugly bug in 5.1-release]

2003-07-15 Thread Harald Schmalzbauer
Now after resetting the machine which was hung by "sysinstall" it claims that ad4 (one of two mirrored 30GB 2.5" disks" was absent (see dmesg below) Now the controller warns me that one drive is bad (which in fact is definatley not) and allows me to select "continue boot" That's what I do and after

Big and ugly bug in 5.1-release

2003-07-15 Thread Harald Schmalzbauer
Dear all, I'm experimenting with 5.1-REL for some weeks and during that time I had some mysterious hangs which I didn't take serious because I modified /usr/src/sys/cam/scsi/scsi_da.c to support my CF-Card-Reader. But now I saw exactly the same problem on my brand new (and cosidered by hardware ex