RE: HPT372 bug summary [was: RE: escalation stage 2]

2003-07-18 Thread Harald Schmalzbauer
Soeren Schmidt wrote: > > which is named "FreeBSD") > > And that's why FreeBSD panics until I delete the mirror relationship. > > Well Highpoints way of dealing with broken arrays and lost disks are less > than optimal, I've tried to do my best in the ATA driver to fool the HPT > system, but its no

Re: HPT372 bug summary [was: RE: escalation stage 2]

2003-07-18 Thread Marcin Dalecki
Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: Ok, like I thought, the disk was not defect. There seems to be a bug in ata regarding HPT372 First: Wiht BIOS version 2.342 the secondary master disk id is incorrectly detected (something liek "X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X" instead of "IC25N03

Re: HPT372 bug summary [was: RE: escalation stage 2]

2003-07-18 Thread Soeren Schmidt
It seems Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: > > I also think the RAID configuration is stored on the disks since when I > create a non-DOS compatible slice (starting at 0 not 63) the RAID > configuration vanishes. Yes the Highpoint BIOS uses sector 9 to hold the RAID config, so if you use that for other

Re: HPT372 bug summary [was: RE: escalation stage 2]

2003-07-18 Thread Terry Lambert
Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: > Please forget that. It was because for convinience reasons I had turned the > 80-pin ATA cables upside down. So the black was at the controller and the > blue at the drive. > I can't imagine that this makes any technical difference (as long as no > slave drive is connec

RE: HPT372 bug summary [was: RE: escalation stage 2]

2003-07-17 Thread Harald Schmalzbauer
Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: > Ok, like I thought, the disk was not defect. There seems to be a > bug in ata > regarding HPT372 > > First: Wiht BIOS version 2.342 the secondary master disk id is incorrectly > detected (something liek "X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X" instead of > "IC25N030ATCS04-0" Pl

HPT372 bug summary [was: RE: escalation stage 2]

2003-07-17 Thread Harald Schmalzbauer
Ok, like I thought, the disk was not defect. There seems to be a bug in ata regarding HPT372 First: Wiht BIOS version 2.342 the secondary master disk id is incorrectly detected (something liek "X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X" instead of "IC25N030ATCS04-0" I downgraded the BIOS to 2.2. Now I did t