VIA 6420 SATA150 RAID on 5.4

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Monday 05 September 2005 23:52, Dominique Goncalves wrote:
> > What about if you do it 'cold'?
> >
> > I like to test my RAID to make sure I can still boot when one disk is
> > 'dead' :)
>
> If I remove one of the SATA disk, the bios of the SATA raid controler
> complains to not have 2 disks and is marked 'broken', but I can try to
> boot.
>
> When FreeBSD boot:
> ar0: 194480MB <VIA Tech V-RAID RAID1> status: BROKEN
>
> And I can't mount the raid.

Hmm that's not good..
A mirror array should definitely not be broken with one drive removed :(

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