Re: ATA RAID -- Promise SATA150 vanished /dev/ar0

From: Søren Schmidt (sos_at_DeepCore.dk)
Date: 04/30/05

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    Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 10:38:54 +0200
To: jondoor@udor.net

    Jon Door wrote:
    > I have a Promise Fastrak SATA RAID controller (PDC20371). Running a
    >
    > stripe between two 120GB drives. Running under a generic RELENG_5 the
    > controller, its drives, and the stripe where all detect without problem.
    > /dev/ar0 was generated without any special changes. Today I upgraded to
    > 6.0-CURRENT. Now the Promise controller and its drives are recognized
    > but no /dev/ar0, and no evidence of the stripe. Booting back to a
    > RELENG_5 system show the stripe data to still be intact. I've beem reading
    > through all the ATA mkIII posts and haven't seen this specific issue, am
    > I missing a step here or is this possibly an issue between the new ATA
    > code and my RAID card? Are there more up to date patches for the ATA
    > code that
    > I might have missed?
    > Thank You.
    >
    > I do have the following devices in my kernel config and have tried both
    > a custom config and a totally generic kernel:
    > # $FreeBSD: src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC,v 1.428 2005/03/31 20:21:42 scottl
    > Exp $
    > device ata
    > device atadisk # ATA disk drives
    > device ataraid # ATA RAID drives

    How did you define the array originally ? using the BIOS or atacontrol ?
    Does the Fasttrak BIOS see the array ?
    Please provide the dmesg from a verbose booted system as that will tell
    what metadata it looks for and eventually finds. 

    -- 
-Søren
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