On Thu, 19 Jun 2008, Gaby Vanhegan wrote:
As far as I know I fixed the hot-spare thing on ami. If that is not
the
case let me know.
I booted into the card's BIOS and confirmed that the drive was marked
as hot spare. It seems to have worked, and this is on 4.1 as well.
No Gaby, if you made that drive a hot spare using 'bioctl -H' under
OpenBSD 4.1, it has probably not been marked as a hot spare.
It looks like it has, but it hasn't. Both the BIOS and bioctl are
mis-reporting the hot spare status. When a drive fails, this hot spare
will not get integrated. This problem was rather sneaky that way :).
The issue still existed at least up to 4.2 release. I don't have access
to hardware for testing it under 4.3 and current, so I can't tell you
definitively when it was fixed...
Like I said earlier, off-list:
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Under 4.1, if you want that drive to *act* as a hot spare, and not just
*look* like a hot spare:
* Pull the hot spare (that will shake loose the false "hot spare"
status)
* Replace the hot spare (it is now no longer marked as hot spare)
* Boot into the BIOS and set the drive as a hot spare
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Matthew
