RAID status issues with Intel MatrixRAID ataraid

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 09:03:48PM +0000, Stef Walter wrote:
> This isn't a bug report, just a heads up to anyone using the same setup.
> This occurred in production, and I don't currently have a non-production
> hardware on which to investigate this bug and/or create a patch.
> 
> In certain conditions, even though the Firmware RAID BIOS, says that a
> RAID is degraded, the FreeBSD driver thinks it's business as usual. In
> my case this resulted in file system corruption. Relevant output below.

See the "ATA (SATA, PATA, ATAPI)" section, specifically the Intel
MatrixRAID items:

http://wiki.freebsd.org/JeremyChadwick/Commonly_reported_issues

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