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

I *think* you should probably set the new disk as a hotspare.
But who knows what this crazy firmware is doing.

A timely reminder of the requirement to test what happens when things
break, since I am building a box with mirrored disks at the moment :-)

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> 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?

http://docs.sun.com/source/817-5248-20/appd.html

Note that there are many different devices known as "LSI raid".
At least: mpi(4) (formerly mpt), ami(4), mfi(4).