Replacing broken drive on RocketRaid 1520 SATA RAID controller

Ted Mittelstaedt tedm at toybox.placo.com
Mon Feb 27 20:37:44 PST 2006


I think you have to rebuild it from the BIOS on the
highpoint card.

Ted

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>Subject: Replacing broken drive on RocketRaid 1520 SATA RAID controller
>
>
>hi,
>
>I'm running 5.4-RELEASE on a server with a Highpoint RocketRAID 1520
>controller. Recently one of the drives failed, but the system
>kept running,
>which is nice.
>Now, however, I'm trying to replace the drive with a new
>(almost identical)
>one:
>
>after plugging in the drive:
>
># atacontrol status ar0
>ar0: ATA RAID1 subdisks: ad4 status: DEGRADED
>
>ok, that's normal
>
># atacontrol list
>ATA channel 0:
>    Master:      no device present
>    Slave:       no device present
>ATA channel 1:
>    Master:      no device present
>    Slave:       no device present
>ATA channel 2:
>    Master:  ad4 <Maxtor 6L160M0/BANC1E00> Serial ATA v1.0
>    Slave:       no device present
>ATA channel 3:
>    Master:  ad6 <Maxtor 6L160M0/BANC1E50> Serial ATA v1.0
>    Slave:       no device present
>
>Nice, so the drive is properly connected.
>
># atacontrol addspare ar0 ad6
>atacontrol: ioctl(ATARAIDADDSPARE): Device not configured
>
>damn :(
>
>I read here:
>http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-October/
041896.html
that i should try # atacontrol addspare 0 ad6 but the result is identical
:(

I also tried attaching and detaching ad6, overwriting the first blocks of
the drive with zero's, without success.

any ideas?
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