[hmm... I must have been hiding under a rock and missed this post..]

Stephen Borrill writes:
> P.S. When trying to reconstruct a RAID 1 array onto a failed component, 
> why should it panic if unable to write:
> 
> raid0: initiating in-place reconstruction on column 0
> raid0: Recon write failed!
> panic: raidframe error at line 880 file 
> /usr/work/netmanager/netbsd/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/NETMANRAID/../../..
> /../dev/raidframe/rf_reconstruct.c

The original RAIDframe code made the assumption that one would never 
try to reconstruct to a disk that has write errors.  In general, that
assumption is fairly true :) 

This problem was fixed some months ago... (it is fixed for 3.0 too)

Later...

Greg Oster