Adaptec 1420SA support?

[Dmitry Morozovsky]

On Mon, 21 Apr 2008, Scott Long wrote:

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SL> > At least after simulating drive loss (atacotrol detach, atacontrol attach)
SL> > I can't rebuild ar0:
SL> >                                                                                                                                                                                    marck at moleskin:~#
SL> > atacontrol status ar0
SL> > ar0: ATA RAID1 status: DEGRADED
SL> >  subdisks:
SL> >    0 ad16 ONLINE
SL> >    1 ad18 ONLINE
SL> > marck at moleskin:~# atacontrol rebuild ar0
SL> > atacontrol: ioctl(IOCATARAIDREBUILD): Input/output error
SL> > marck at moleskin:~#
SL> > 
SL> > Or, should I wipe out ar label from the second disk to emulate disk
SL> > replacement?
SL> > 
SL> 
SL> Generating metadata is not supported, nor is automatic failover to a
SL> spare.  If you're interested in working on the code, let me know and
SL> I'll help you get started.

Yes I'm interested; however, my kernel hacking skills are rather limited and, 
as I think, rudimentary ;-)

But I at least would try.

Sincerely,
D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
[ FreeBSD committer:                                 marck at FreeBSD.org ]
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