Hi, Just got an Intelserver with a Promise Fastrack TX2000 controller. So I installed 5.3-STABLE on it, and pulled a disk. Got a nice report that I disk had gone, but the box kept on running. Which is nice. So I reinserted the drive, and got atacontrol to reinit the channel, and voila back was the drive. But all my attempts to get the RAID 1 to rebuild through atacontrol failed. Used atacontrol rebuild 0 atacontrol was giving me "RAID1 disk ad4 ad6 mode: DEGRADED" (from memory) It booted fine with just one disk, only was required to indicate that I really wanted to boot of the harddisk in the BIOS. Not very nice if the box is in a far off colo.... (Is the RAID-bios output also available on the serial console??) So now I started to rebuild it through the bios, but the bios does not let the system continue to boot.... Currently it's only 120G but what if we're talking 300G. That'll take forever. How can I get the controller to rebuild the RAID whilest running FreeBSD? Thanx, --WjW
Willem Jan Withagen wrote:> Ash wrote: > >> Willem Jan Withagen wrote: >> >>> But all my attempts to get the RAID 1 to rebuild through atacontrol >>> failed. Used atacontrol rebuild 0 > > >> What was the procedure you used to try to rebuild the array? Also what >> was the output of the commands? >> >> Based on your e-mail, it sounds like you left out the following step: >> >> atacontrol addspare ar0 ad# >> >> In context: >> >> 1*) atacontrol detach ad# >> 2) <replace drive> >> 3) atacontrol attach ad# >> >> 4) atacontrol addspare ar0 ad# >> >> 5) atacontrol rebuild ar0 >> >> >> [*] Please note that attach, detach, renit, etc. affect the ATA >> channel (i.e. BOTH the Master drive and Slave drive on that channel). > > > Sounds about right. That was the forgotten step. > I'll give it another try. :) > > The unit is a 1U box with only 2 disks and 2 controllers. > So the disks are each on a channel of the fasttrack conroller. > The CD-rom is on the standard controller in {south,north}bridge. > > Thanx, > --WjW >Oops.. I didn't reply-all in my original e-mail. Doing it now on Willem's offline response to my offline response. :) -Ash