Rami Sik ??????:
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> Yes, I first started by setting up the raid and installing openBSD on
> top of it. All was fine until one of the disks failed. Then, I replaced
> the failed disk, and try to re-initiate the raid (mirroring) where I got
> stuck since the raid controller did not like the partitioning.
>
> However, I advanced one step further now: If you use fdisk to assign a
> different id to the openBSD partition (like 83 as suggested by Sun for
> the Linux installs), raid controller seems to start mirroring your disk
> to the second one. However, when you change your partition id from the
> default value of A6 to 83, openBSD could not boot. So, I am planning to
> play with the partition id so that I could set up the mirroring through
> LSI raid controller. Once it is done, I will revert the partition id
> back to its default value of A6. Then I will see if mirroring still
> works, and boots off of the second disk!
>
>
> Rami Sik
>   
The RAID controller *should not* care about partitions at all - WTF?! 
It's job is to duplicate the data and present the disks as one logical 
unit to the OS, and nothing more. You sure that is your problem?
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: J.C. Roberts [mailto:jcroberts@designtools.org]
> Sent: January 29, 2008 1:13 PM
> To: Rami Sik
> Cc: misc@openbsd.org
> Subject: Re: openBSD 4.2 and LSI raid
>
> On Monday 28 January 2008, Rami Sik wrote:
>   
>> I did a research and found the similar problem already reported for
>> Linux installations, and Sun released a workaround for it. However, I
>> cannot find anything about openBSD installations.
>>     
>
> At present, I've got two LSI RAID controllers here running OpenBSD
> ("MegaRAID 150-6 SATA" and "MegaRAID i4" PATA).
>
> Though I don't know about your specific controler (1030), the normal
> answer is to create your logical drive in the controler setup and
> *THEN* install the operating system.
>
> From your description, it seems you're doing things backwards, namely
> installing the OS on one drive and then trying to create a miror.
>
> -jcr