Re: Whay is broken ATARAID that ignored?

Hi Harald Schmalzbauer,
you wrote.

HS> The man page still claims to support these controllers. But they've never
HS> really been. As soon as one drive fails, the support fails because no rebuild
HS> is possible (with -stable).

It is. However, you will have to detach and attach the channel with
the failed drive (after replacing it) so the controller knows there is
a drive to be rebuilt on (now it would make more sense if ataraid was
smart enough to figure that out itself but alas, it's not). Then try
rebuild again.

As to Silicon Image, well that's pure, utter crap. Doesn't even work
with vendor provided W2K drivers on that platform.

HS> People like me take these man pages as reference and purchase hardware which
HS> is said to be supported.

It IS supported (in stable, anyhow, can't comment about recent
CURRENT).

HS> Or fix it. At least there should be a note in UPDATING. It's horrible to find
HS> out that suddenly the system doesn't detect ar0 any more!!!
HS> And nobody cares about for over two weeks.......

Well I do agree the rebuild procedure should be described better.

If you want a troublefree (S)ATA RAID solution, nothing beats the
3Ware cards. But cheap they aren't.


Regards,
Gabriel