raid (atacontrol) problems

[Soren Schmidt]

It seems Igor Tseglevsky wrote:
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> Strange problems with RAID. If disks are located on different controllers
> after rebooting one of disks disappears. Disks on one controller coexist in
> RAID normally.

Is that Promise controller a fasttrak ie with a RAID BIOS ?
In that case you cant span controllers, that only works on
generic ATA controllers (ie those without any RAID).

> Any ideas? Please, help!
> 
> 
> cf# atacontrol status 0
> atacontrol: ioctl(ATARAIDSTATUS): Device not configured
> cf# atacontrol create mirror ad1 ad4
> ar0 created
> cf# atacontrol status 0
> ar0: ATA RAID1 subdisks: ad1 ad4 status: READY
> cf# fastboot
> 
> cf# atacontrol status 0
> ar0: ATA RAID1 subdisks: ad1 DOWN status: DEGRADED
> 
> In dmesg:
> 
> ad0: 76319MB <ST380011A> [155061/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA66
> ad1: 76319MB <ST380011A> [155061/16/63] at ata0-slave UDMA66
> ad2: DMA limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 cable or device
> ad2: 76319MB <ST380011A> [155061/16/63] at ata1-master UDMA33
> ad4: 76319MB <ST380011A> [155061/16/63] at ata2-master UDMA100
> ad6: 76319MB <ST380011A> [155061/16/63] at ata3-master UDMA100
> ar0: WARNING - mirror lost
> ar0: 76319MB <ATA RAID1 array> [9729/255/63] status: DEGRADED subdisks:
>  disk0 READY on ad1 at ata0-slave
>  disk1 DOWN no device found for this disk
> 
> Similarly for ad2 and ad6.
> 
> Other situation with same controller:
> 
> cf# atacontrol status 0
> atacontrol: ioctl(ATARAIDSTATUS): Device not configured
> cf# atacontrol create mirror ad1 ad2
> ar0 created
> cf# atacontrol status 0
> ar0: ATA RAID1 subdisks: ad1 ad2 status: READY
> cf# fastboot
> 
> cf# atacontrol status 0
> ar0: ATA RAID1 subdisks: ad1 ad2 status: READY
> 
> Similarly for ad4 and ad6.
> 
> cf# uname -a
> FreeBSD cf 5.1-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE-p5 #0: Mon Sep 22 07:46:00 GMT 2003     tsypa at cf:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
> cf# 
> 
> Some dmesg about controllers:
> 
> atapci0: <Promise PDC20269 UDMA133 controller> port 0xdf90-0xdf9f,0xdfe0-0xdfe3,0xdfa8-0xdfaf,0xdfe4-0xdfe7,0xdff0-0xdff7 mem 0xfeafc000-0xfeafffff irq 11 at device 8.0 on pci2
> ata2: at 0xdff0 on atapci0
> ata3: at 0xdfa8 on atapci0
> 
> atapci1: <Intel ICH UDMA66 controller> port 0xffa0-0xffaf at device 31.1 on pci0
> ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci1
> ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci1
> 
> Igor.
> 
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-Søren