Replacing broken drive on RocketRaid 1520 SATA RAID controller

[N3TW4LK3R]

That would be nice, if it were possible!
I am using several more RocketRaid cards here (parrallel ATA), some appear
to have an extended BIOS that supports array rebuilding, some have only a
basic-BIOS

The one I'm having trouble with right now only has 3 options in its BIOS:
Create Array, Delete Array, Set Boot Disk. That's it :(

I think you have to rebuild it from the BIOS on the
> highpoint card.
>
> Ted
>
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> Subject: Replacing broken drive on RocketRaid 1520 SATA RAID controller
>
>
>
> hi,
>
> I'm running 5.4-RELEASE on a server with a Highpoint RocketRAID 1520
> controller. Recently one of the drives failed, but the system
> kept running,
> which is nice.
> Now, however, I'm trying to replace the drive with a new
>
> (almost identical)
> one:
>
> after plugging in the drive:
>
> # atacontrol status ar0
> ar0: ATA RAID1 subdisks: ad4 status: DEGRADED
>
> ok, that's normal
>
> # atacontrol list
> ATA channel 0:
>    Master:      no device present
>
>    Slave:       no device present
> ATA channel 1:
>    Master:      no device present
>    Slave:       no device present
> ATA channel 2:
>    Master:  ad4 <Maxtor 6L160M0/BANC1E00> Serial ATA v1.0
>    Slave:       no device present
>
> ATA channel 3:
>    Master:  ad6 <Maxtor 6L160M0/BANC1E50> Serial ATA v1.0
>    Slave:       no device present
>
> Nice, so the drive is properly connected.
>
> # atacontrol addspare ar0 ad6
> atacontrol: ioctl(ATARAIDADDSPARE): Device not configured
>
>
> damn :(
>
> I read here:
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-October/
>
> 041896.html
> that i should try # atacontrol addspare 0 ad6 but the result is identical
> :(
>
> I also tried attaching and detaching ad6, overwriting the first blocks of
> the drive with zero's, without success.
>
>
> any ideas?
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