RAID rebuild problem

[Daniel O'Connor]

Hi,
I had a RAID split (for unknown reasons) and had..
...
atapci0: <Promise PDC20378 SATA150 controller> port 0x8000-0x803f,0x7800-0x780f,0x7400-0x747f mem 0xfb300000-0xfb300fff,0xfb200000-0xfb21ffff irq 18 at device 8.0 on pci0
ata2: <ATA channel 0> on atapci0
ata3: <ATA channel 1> on atapci0
ata4: <ATA channel 2> on atapci0
...
ad0: 238475MB <HDT722525DLA380 V44OA96A> at ata2-master SATA150
ad1: 238475MB <HDT722525DLA380 V44OA96A> at ata3-master SATA150
ar0: 238418MB <Promise Fasttrak RAID1> status: DEGRADED
ar0: disk0 READY (master) using ad0 at ata2-master
ar0: disk1 DOWN no device found for this subdisk
ar1: 238418MB <Promise Fasttrak RAID1> status: DEGRADED
ar1: disk0 DOWN no device found for this subdisk
ar1: disk1 READY (mirror) using ad1 at ata3-master

So I did the following..
I deleted the second array..
sudo atacontrol delete ar1

and added the disk as a spare ..
sudo atacontrol addspare ar0 ad1

and rebuilt the array..
sudo atacontrol rebuild ar0

However the status stayed at 0%. I noticed that atacontrol ran dd (which I
think is so that the ATA kernel code has an opportunity to update the 
mirror in the strategy routine). Even when the dd had finished it stayed
stuck at 0%.

kiruna:~>sudo atacontrol status ar0
ar0: ATA RAID1 subdisks: ad0 ad1 status: REBUILDING 0% completed

I did a manual dd and it seems to be running as I expect, but it still
reads 0%.

kiruna:~>uname -a
FreeBSD kiruna.gsoft.com.au 6.0-RC1 FreeBSD 6.0-RC1 #0: Wed Oct 26 13:29:47 UTC 2005     root at chungli-pr.gsoft.com.au:/usr/obj/local0/src/sys/GENESIS  amd64

I plan to try rebuilding it in the BIOS but I would dearly like to be able 
to rebuild arrays without having to resort to the BIOS.

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Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
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