At 11:54 AM 3/18/2001 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> When we bound the array this last time, we took all the defaults: A
> 64KB stripe size, disk write cache enabled. It takes a surprisingly
> long time to initialize the array. What I did is to boot off the
> 4.3 floppies (no cdrom in this system) and go to the slice
> (a.k.a. DOS partition) editor and write out the slice
> information. This 'write' seems to cause the twe0 driver to
> initialize the array, and then I go home to bed. When I wake up it
> is done, and then I usually just reboot and restart the
> installation.
The delay is normal. When you setup anything other than a RAID0 array, the
card is actually doing work to your drives in the background. Grab the
array manager from
http://people.freebsd.org/~msmith/RAID/3ware/3dm-bsd.1.09.00.002.tar.gz
and it will notify you when its done. You can also speed up the
initialization part a bit by setting it to a faster rebuild time.
---Mike
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