raid (atacontrol) problems

[Igor Tseglevsky]

On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 05:49:42PM +0200, Soren Schmidt wrote:
> It seems Igor Tseglevsky wrote:
> [ Charset KOI8-R unsupported, converting... ]
> > Strange problems with RAID. If disks are located on different controllers
> > after rebooting one of disks disappears. Disks on one controller coexist in
> > RAID normally.
> 
> Is that Promise controller a fasttrak ie with a RAID BIOS ?
> In that case you cant span controllers, that only works on
> generic ATA controllers (ie those without any RAID).

No, I use a 'Promise Ultra ATA/133', it is simple ATA controller,
without any RAID in BIOS.

> > Any ideas? Please, help!
> >
> > cf# atacontrol status 0
> > atacontrol: ioctl(ATARAIDSTATUS): Device not configured
> > cf# atacontrol create mirror ad1 ad4
> > ar0 created
> > cf# atacontrol status 0
> > ar0: ATA RAID1 subdisks: ad1 ad4 status: READY
> > cf# fastboot
> > 
> > cf# atacontrol status 0
> > ar0: ATA RAID1 subdisks: ad1 DOWN status: DEGRADED
> > 
> > In dmesg:
> > 
> > ad0: 76319MB <ST380011A> [155061/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA66
> > ad1: 76319MB <ST380011A> [155061/16/63] at ata0-slave UDMA66
> > ad2: DMA limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 cable or device
> > ad2: 76319MB <ST380011A> [155061/16/63] at ata1-master UDMA33
> > ad4: 76319MB <ST380011A> [155061/16/63] at ata2-master UDMA100
> > ad6: 76319MB <ST380011A> [155061/16/63] at ata3-master UDMA100
> > ar0: WARNING - mirror lost
> > ar0: 76319MB <ATA RAID1 array> [9729/255/63] status: DEGRADED subdisks:
> >  disk0 READY on ad1 at ata0-slave
> >  disk1 DOWN no device found for this disk
> > 
> > Similarly for ad2 and ad6.
> > 
> > Other situation with same controller:
> > 
> > cf# atacontrol status 0
> > atacontrol: ioctl(ATARAIDSTATUS): Device not configured
> > cf# atacontrol create mirror ad1 ad2
> > ar0 created
> > cf# atacontrol status 0
> > ar0: ATA RAID1 subdisks: ad1 ad2 status: READY
> > cf# fastboot
> > 
> > cf# atacontrol status 0
> > ar0: ATA RAID1 subdisks: ad1 ad2 status: READY
> > 
> > Similarly for ad4 and ad6.
> > 
> > cf# uname -a
> > FreeBSD cf 5.1-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE-p5 #0: Mon Sep 22 07:46:00 GMT 2003     tsypa at cf:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
> > cf# 
> > 
> > Some dmesg about controllers:
> > 
> > atapci0: <Promise PDC20269 UDMA133 controller> port 0xdf90-0xdf9f,0xdfe0-0xdfe3,0xdfa8-0xdfaf,0xdfe4-0xdfe7,0xdff0-0xdff7 mem 0xfeafc000-0xfeafffff irq 11 at device 8.0 on pci2
> > ata2: at 0xdff0 on atapci0
> > ata3: at 0xdfa8 on atapci0
> > 
> > atapci1: <Intel ICH UDMA66 controller> port 0xffa0-0xffaf at device 31.1 on pci0
> > ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci1
> > ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci1
> > 
> > Igor.
> > 
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> -S?ren
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