When will gmirror work in FreeBSD 5?

[Søren Schmidt]

On 09/08/2005, at 20:26, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 12:03:41PM -0600, Schlake (William Colburn)  
> wrote:
> +> My computer started out with 2 gmirrored drives on FreeBSD 5.   
> Back in
> +> March I got two new hard drives and gmirrored them for the extra  
> space.
> +> I quickly discovered that my data was corrupted on writes.  A  
> search of
> +> the bugs database revealed that this was a known issue
> +> (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=i386/77643).
> +>
> +> I'm out of disk space, and I would really like to use my two  
> extra disks
> +> that have been spinning idle for the past five months, but there  
> has
> +> been no work on the ticket?
>
> There is nothing to fix in gmirror, it should be fixed in ATA code.
> (CCing sos@, mdodd@ and njl@).

Well, if the HW is as in the PR you better fix that sii3112 by  
getting a real SATA controller.
After that you should get 6.0 or 5.x + the ATA mkIII patches at  
least, ATA as is in 5.4 is not supported by me, and known to have  
several issues ...

- Søren