On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 11:29:16AM -0400, Brian wrote:
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> Josh,
> 
> I experienced this same problem during a recent migration to RAIDframe
> Auto-configuration.  I had a RAID 1 root auto-configured RAID set, and a
> RAID 0 auto-configured set.  The source tree I was using dates back to
> August 5th so it is obviously outside of your 12-hour window.  However,
> I pinpointed my hang due to a CD-ROM being connected to the IDE port on
> the motherboard.  Without the CD-ROM drive, the RAIDframe Auto-configure
> would proceed as expected.
> 
> I don't know if this will help, considering I do not have a dmesg on
> hand.  The server is already deployed and I cannot experiment with
> CD-ROM drive insertion/removal.  I can tell you that the offending
> CD-ROM drive is a LITE-ON CD-ROM Drive model LTN-483S if that is of any
> consequence.
> 
> And yes, RAID_AUTOCONFIG is set in the kernel config.  Without it, the
> RAIDframe would proceed as expected with or without the CD-ROM drive.

I received patches to rf_openbsdkintf.c which were designed to stop the 
CD probe, from several people.  They were not effective circumventions, so
that's not this particular problem.  

I have narrowed it down to a one hour range of patches.  Ken Westerback is 
pursuing the issue for me.