On Tuesday 29 January 2008, Stuart Henderson wrote:

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> On 2008/01/29 23:57, NetOne - Doichin Dokov wrote:

> >> 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.

>

> I *think* you should probably set the new disk as a hotspare.

> But who knows what this crazy firmware is doing.

It seems the "crazy firmware" is checking the partition type read from

the disk against some kind of whitelist... highly annoying.
It's moments like this when I wonder why I don't use softraid *alot*

more often.
Rami, sorry I misunderstood your first post. The partition type hacking

you mentioned in your follow up seems like your only choice short term

but long term, the best answer is to replace the controller or use

softraid.
kind regards,

JCR