Subject: Re: problem with RAIDframe setup (my mistake) setting a root mirror
To: Greg Oster <oster@cs.usask.ca>
From: Carl Brewer <carl@bl.echidna.id.au>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 05/08/2006 16:03:30
Carl Brewer wrote:
> Carl Brewer wrote:
>>
>> Greg Oster wrote:
>>> Carl Brewer writes:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I've made some mistake with disklabel I think, trying to set up a root
>>>> mirror on a pair of 160GB IDE HDD's on an i386 box.
>>>
>>> You havn't said, but I highly suspect these are Seagate drives, yes? 
>>
>> Yes, on an oldish, 1999 AOpen PA3000 (MX34) MB, I had to flash the BIOS
>> to get it to see the disks.
> 
> The current (netbsd-3) wd.c doesn't match my disks,
> I've notified thorpej and hand-hacked the file to test for my
> disks, will see how the new kernel goes.
> 
> These disks are ST3160812A's which don't fit the pattern
> in that file (one too many digits!)

For the record, I added this to wd.c :

         /* Carl's 160GB seagate ... */
         { "ST3160812A*",
           WD_QUIRK_FORCE_LBA48 },

rebuilt the kernel, and now RAIDFrame is happy.

Thanks again for your help!

Carl