Re: SiI 3132 goes crazy and marks both disks as Reserved after each reboot
I've added SiI 3132-based controller with two SATA disks to system, and almost lost my sanity: gstripe configuration becomes lost after each reboot. After some investigation, I found, that after each reboot last sector of disk contains SiI meta-information instead of GEOM:STRIPE one. I have a couple of SiI 3132 controllers (Masscool XWT-PCIE10) with GPT partitioned disks, and the last sectors still appear to contain the Sec GPT headers after several reboots. How to reset this state? And where SiI controller store information (additional to last sector)? I suspect your card's BIOS code. You could see if your mainboard has an option to not run expansion card BIOS code. You could see if there is a better version of BIOS code available for your card. KLUDGE If all else fails, you could create a backup copy of the last sector and have dd(1) restore it from rc.local or cron @reboot. /KLUDGE ___ freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hardware-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: SiI 3132 goes crazy and marks both disks as Reserved after each reboot
On Monday, July 18, 2011 05:09:24 AM per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Lev Serebryakov l...@freebsd.org wrote: Hello, Freebsd-hardware. I've added SiI 3132-based controller with two SATA disks to system, and almost lost my sanity: gstripe configuration becomes lost after each reboot. After some investigation, I found, that after each reboot last sector of disk contains SiI meta-information instead of GEOM:STRIPE one. SiI RAID uitility shows disks as Reserved disks, but refuse to delete RAID volume, as here is no one. How to reset this state? And where SiI controller store information (additional to last sector)? Dunno what-all else may be needed, but one way to preserve the SiI metadata would be, instead of gstriping the disks themselves, make a slice (MBR) or partition (GPT) on each disk -- a little smaller than the whole disk -- and gstripe those slices or partitions. ___ freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hardware-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hardware-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: SiI 3132 goes crazy and marks both disks as Reserved after each reboot
Hello, Perryh. You wrote 18 июля 2011 г., 16:09:24: How to reset this state? And where SiI controller store information (additional to last sector)? Dunno what-all else may be needed, but one way to preserve the SiI metadata would be, instead of gstriping the disks themselves, make a slice (MBR) or partition (GPT) on each disk -- a little smaller than the whole disk -- and gstripe those slices or partitions. My task is directly the opposite: I want make SiI 3132 to FORGET about all RAID-related stuff and to don't touch HDDs in any way and behave as simple SATA HBA. -- // Black Lion AKA Lev Serebryakov l...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hardware-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
SiI 3132 goes crazy and marks both disks as Reserved after each reboot
Hello, Freebsd-hardware. I've added SiI 3132-based controller with two SATA disks to system, and almost lost my sanity: gstripe configuration becomes lost after each reboot. After some investigation, I found, that after each reboot last sector of disk contains SiI meta-information instead of GEOM:STRIPE one. SiI RAID uitility shows disks as Reserved disks, but refuse to delete RAID volume, as here is no one. How to reset this state? And where SiI controller store information (additional to last sector)? -- // Black Lion AKA Lev Serebryakov l...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hardware-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: SiI 3132 goes crazy and marks both disks as Reserved after each reboot
Lev Serebryakov l...@freebsd.org wrote: Hello, Freebsd-hardware. I've added SiI 3132-based controller with two SATA disks to system, and almost lost my sanity: gstripe configuration becomes lost after each reboot. After some investigation, I found, that after each reboot last sector of disk contains SiI meta-information instead of GEOM:STRIPE one. SiI RAID uitility shows disks as Reserved disks, but refuse to delete RAID volume, as here is no one. How to reset this state? And where SiI controller store information (additional to last sector)? Dunno what-all else may be needed, but one way to preserve the SiI metadata would be, instead of gstriping the disks themselves, make a slice (MBR) or partition (GPT) on each disk -- a little smaller than the whole disk -- and gstripe those slices or partitions. ___ freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hardware-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
