6.0-BETA5: Sees only first ATA RAID volume

Søren Schmidt sos at FreeBSD.ORG
Thu Oct 13 06:49:44 PDT 2005


On 13/10/2005, at 15:19, Thomas Quinot wrote:

> * Søren Schmidt, 2005-10-10 :
>>         /*
>>          * update our knowledge about the array config based on   
>> generation
>>          * we only grap the first volume description (yet) since the
>>          * BIOS'n I have access to puts crap into the following ones
>>          */
>>
>> There's your explanation :)
>>
> Thanks Søren!
>
>> When/If I get my hands on HW that supports this I'll add the support
>> to the ataraid driver..
>>
> The set up of this machine is far from finished here, so if you  
> want me
> to do some experiments please let me know.

Hmm, dumps of the metadata (last 2 sectors on the disks) from various  
RAID setups that uses more than 1 volume with description of the  
exact layout setup in the BIOS would be helpfull...

Søren Schmidt
sos at FreeBSD.org





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