From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 10 05:28:24 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB79916A4CE for ; Wed, 10 Nov 2004 05:28:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wrongcrowd.com (dsl231-043-085.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8015743D5E for ; Wed, 10 Nov 2004 05:28:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from matt@wrongcrowd.com) Received: from [192.168.1.95] (port=2971 helo=tbird.wrongcrowd.com) by wrongcrowd.com with esmtp (Exim 4.34 (FreeBSD)) id 1CRkzu-0001f4-UI for freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org; Tue, 09 Nov 2004 21:26:24 -0800 Message-Id: <6.1.2.0.2.20041109210402.08ec4240@wrongcrowd.com> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.1.2.0 Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2004 21:26:40 -0800 To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org From: Matt Staroscik In-Reply-To: <20041109120114.11AD616A592@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20041109120114.11AD616A592@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) Subject: Trouble rebuilding array on 3ware 7000 (twe) X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 05:28:24 -0000 I need a hand from a disk guru as I am having some problems with a 7000-2 mirror under 4.10. I last built the stable branch a couple of months ago. My 3ware Escalade 7000-2 has a pair of Maxtor 160GBs on it. I run them mirrored. The other day, a drive bit the dust. As the disk was well and truly hosed according to the Maxtor utilities, I chucked it and dropped a replacement into the RAID. The replacement disk was the exact same Maxtor model. (these were all cold swaps by the way, no hot swap cages here yet.) At boot I hit alt-3 to get into the 3ware BIOS and I started the array rebuilding. All seemed well. The 3dm web page indicated a rebuild was in progress. Disks were chugging. After a few minutes, the rebuild stopped and the 3dm web page showed "error." The console showed an unhelpful twe0 Disk Error message. - Is it still the case that a 7000-series 3ware cannot successfully rebuild under FreeBSD? I found year-old mailing list traffic that mentioned this, and suggested a Knoppix Linux live CD as a workaround. - Might a bad block in /usr kill the rebuild? a dump of /usr (single user mode) did show 2 read errors, which were accompanied by twe controller failure (0x40) error messages. However, the system did not display any other problems. Here is my 7000-2 version information, from 3dm. (which I now see is deprecated... do I need to install the 3ware CLI tools?) Monitor version: ME7X 1.01.00.036 Firmware version: FE7X 1.05.00.050 BIOS version: BE7X 1.08.00.046 PCB version: Rev3 Achip version: 3.20 Pchip version: 1.30-33 Model: 7000-2 Unit count: 1 Many thanks in advance for your ideas. With half a RAID I am running on borrowed time. At least a SMART probe of the remaining drive only shows 2 errors! Best, Matt S. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Matt Staroscik * KF6IYW * mstar@speakeasy.net * http://wrongcrowd.com "The combined weight of the horrors I have authored wrought would crush your carbon hearts into perfect diamonds of terror." -- Leonid Kasparov Destroyovitch