SCSI disk getting disconnected on boot

[Chris Elsworth]

On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 12:06:37PM +0100, Chris Elsworth wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 12:24:11PM +0200, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 10:15:09AM +0100, Chris Elsworth wrote:
> > +> GEOM_MIRROR[1]: Disk da0 state changed from NEW to ACTIVE (device gm).
> > +> GEOM_MIRROR[2]: Access da0 r0w1e1 = 1
> > +> GEOM_MIRROR[0]: Cannot update metadata on disk da0 (error=1).
> > 
> > I haven't seen this error before.
> > Simlar race was reported earlier. Could you try this patch:
> > 
> > 	http://people.freebsd.org/~pjd/patches/gmirror.patch
> > 
> > (You need to recompile you kernel and geom_mirror.ko module.)
> 
> Hello Pawel,
> 
> Oh dear - this seems to have made it worse :(

Replying to myself, but I've managed to get it working. I've applied 
http://people.freebsd.org/~pjd/patches/root_mount.patch

and set
mount_root_delay="10"
and it has now booted three times without disconnecting da0 :)

So I look forward to the merging of both those patches :)

-- 
Chris