Undeletable ATA RAID

Soeren Schmidt sos at spider.deepcore.dk
Tue Apr 8 23:31:11 PDT 2003


It seems Sean Hamilton wrote:
> I recently added two disks to a FreeBSD system and created an ATA array with
> them. Upon rebooting, the existing array (formerly ar0) became ar1, and the
> new array was now ar0. Accordingly, the system didn't boot. I have since
> removed the second disk from the new array, and now the array ar0 (the new
> array) is undeletable. It complains the second disk doesn't exist. When I
> attempt to delete it, it simply returns upon reboot, and the system is again
> unbootable. It even survived a zeroing of the first disk!
> This is on 5.0-RELEASE.

What kind of controller do you have since that is vital for how
ATA RAID's are setup ?

-Søren


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