From owner-freebsd-scsi Sun Sep 9 3:42:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from henoch.cc.fh-lippe.de (henoch.cc.fh-lippe.de [193.16.112.72]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A563D37B403 for ; Sun, 9 Sep 2001 03:42:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sulu.cc.fh-lippe.de([193.16.118.119]) (2230 bytes) by henoch.cc.fh-lippe.de via sendmail with P:esmtp/R:inet_hosts/T:smtp (sender: ) id for ; Sun, 9 Sep 2001 12:42:09 +0200 (MET DST) (Smail-3.2.0.111 2000-Feb-17 #1 built 2000-Mar-17) Received: from door.lippe.de(corticarius.cc.fh-lippe.de[193.16.112.169]) (1857 bytes) by sulu.cc.fh-lippe.de via sendmail with P:smtp/R:smart_host/T:smtp (sender: ) id for ; Sun, 9 Sep 2001 12:42:07 +0200 (MET DST) (Smail-3.2.0.111 2000-Feb-17 #1 built 2000-Mar-17) Received: from odie.lippe.de (root@odie.lippe.de [192.168.4.2]) by door.lippe.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA21173; Sun, 9 Sep 2001 12:16:41 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from lkoeller@lippe.de) Received: from odie.lippe.de (lkoeller@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by odie.lippe.de (8.11.6/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f89AGOc65612; Sun, 9 Sep 2001 12:16:24 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from lkoeller@odie.lippe.de) Message-Id: <200109091016.f89AGOc65612@odie.lippe.de> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 From: "Lars =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=F6ller?=" To: "Justin T. Gibbs" Cc: "Lars =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=F6ller?=" , "Kenneth D. Merry" , freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Wire of SCSI devices gives warning messages In-Reply-To: Message from "Justin T. Gibbs" of "Thu, 06 Sep 2001 13:06:04 MDT." <200109061906.f86J64Y78966@aslan.scsiguy.com> X-Face: eCcoCV}FjV*O{6>[1$XP/e%]TJhEw2MF33dFh)^HM7Gfd=[/(4+0a$~ List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello! Any news concerning the scsi device wiring problem? Best regards Lars -- = Lars K=F6ller E-Mail: lkoeller@cc.fh-lippe.de (LKoeller@FreeBSD.ORG) PGP-key: http://www.pgp.net/pgpnet/www-key.html -------- FreeBSD, was sonst? ---- http://www.de.freebsd.org -------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-scsi Mon Sep 10 11:33:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from relay.ioffe.rssi.ru (relay.ioffe.rssi.ru [194.85.224.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51FD137B40A; Mon, 10 Sep 2001 11:33:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from astro.ioffe.rssi.ru (astro.ioffe.rssi.ru [194.85.229.130]) by relay.ioffe.rssi.ru (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id WAA17544; Mon, 10 Sep 2001 22:33:34 +0400 (MSD) Received: by astro.ioffe.rssi.ru (8.9.3/Clnt-2.14-AS-eef) id WAA23230; Mon, 10 Sep 2001 22:32:59 +0400 (MSD) Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 22:32:59 +0400 (MSD) From: Alexey Koptsevich To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: are backplanes needed for IDE RAID? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello, We are buying 3ware 7810 IDE RAID controller (supports hot-swap) and thinking now about disk enclosures. There are some on the market (e.g., backplane http://www.synetic.net/Synetic-Products/2-to-3-IDE.html) but I wonder do we need them? As far as I understand, some power switching is necessary for hot swap, but do backplanes provide any advantage against simple mobile racks with disk power switcher? Also, the backplane cited above has two power connectors, are they necessary for hot-swappable power supplies or not? Thanks a lot, Alex PS Please cc: me your reply. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-scsi Mon Sep 10 14:20:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4640C37B407; Mon, 10 Sep 2001 14:20:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.6/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f8ALRcK03624; Mon, 10 Sep 2001 14:27:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200109102127.f8ALRcK03624@mass.dis.org> To: Alexey Koptsevich Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, msmith@mass.dis.org Subject: Re: are backplanes needed for IDE RAID? In-Reply-To: Message from Alexey Koptsevich of "Mon, 10 Sep 2001 22:32:59 +0400." Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 14:27:38 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > We are buying 3ware 7810 IDE RAID controller (supports hot-swap) and > thinking now about disk enclosures. There are some on the market (e.g., > backplane http://www.synetic.net/Synetic-Products/2-to-3-IDE.html) but I > wonder do we need them? As far as I understand, some power switching is > necessary for hot swap, but do backplanes provide any advantage against > simple mobile racks with disk power switcher? Backplanse can offer some advantages; eg. simplified mounting, better cooling, better EMI shieliding. But as long as the mounting hardware supports power switching, you should be fine. > Also, the backplane cited > above has two power connectors, are they necessary for hot-swappable power > supplies or not? No; they would just be there because a single power connector is not rated for the current draw of the entire backplane full of drives (plus it gives you some protection against connector failure, which is more common than one might like). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-scsi Tue Sep 11 12:59:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from magnolia.wanadoo.fr (smtp-rt-11.wanadoo.fr [193.252.19.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BA7B37B40F for ; Tue, 11 Sep 2001 12:59:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from antholoma.wanadoo.fr (193.252.19.153) by magnolia.wanadoo.fr; 11 Sep 2001 21:59:25 +0200 Received: from greatoak.home (193.248.218.105) by antholoma.wanadoo.fr; 11 Sep 2001 21:59:07 +0200 Received: (from pcasidy@localhost) by greatoak.home (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f8BJwQn44753 for freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org; Tue, 11 Sep 2001 21:58:26 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from pcasidy) Message-Id: <200109111958.f8BJwQn44753@greatoak.home> Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 21:58:26 +0200 (CEST) From: Philippe CASIDY Subject: Fwd: probe0:aic0 ... timed out since 4.0R To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi! This is a repost from freebsd-questions as I had no answers from this list. Thanks for having a look at it! ------ Forwarded message ------ From: Philippe CASIDY Subject: probe0:aic0 ... timed out since 4.0R Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 13:35:51 +0200 (CEST) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi! I have an adaptec 1505 SCSI controller which used to work pretty well under 3.4R. Since 4.0R to currently 4.3R I am not able to use it anymore. I have a lot of messages (probe0:aic:0:1:0): ccb 0x... - timed out, phase 0x0, state 1 I found under mailing lists archives that several people had the same problem but no solution was published. I read somewhere that the way controller were detected has changed since 4.0R. But how I can I make it correctly detected? Thanks Phil. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-scsi Wed Sep 12 16:12:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from q.closedsrc.org (ip233.gte15.rb1.bel.nwlink.com [209.20.244.233]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4250737B408; Wed, 12 Sep 2001 16:11:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: by q.closedsrc.org (Postfix, from userid 1003) id 7A4CD55407; Wed, 12 Sep 2001 16:11:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by q.closedsrc.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6891951610; Wed, 12 Sep 2001 16:11:51 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 16:11:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Linh Pham To: Alexey Koptsevich Cc: , Subject: Re: are backplanes needed for IDE RAID? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 2001-09-10, Alexey Koptsevich scribbled: # We are buying 3ware 7810 IDE RAID controller (supports hot-swap) and # thinking now about disk enclosures. There are some on the market (e.g., # backplane http://www.synetic.net/Synetic-Products/2-to-3-IDE.html) but I # wonder do we need them? As far as I understand, some power switching is # necessary for hot swap, but do backplanes provide any advantage against # simple mobile racks with disk power switcher? Also, the backplane cited # above has two power connectors, are they necessary for hot-swappable power # supplies or not? Backplanes aren't needed for IDE RAID... all you need are cables that connect the IDE RAID controller to the hard drive (the usual 40-pin/80-wire IDE cable is required for ATA/66 and ATA/100 to run at their top speeds). Backplanes are only needed if you want to be able to hot swap the hard drives, but there are IDE drive trays that can do that for you without requiring a special backplane (like the ones found in many SCSI-based servers... ie: Compaq DL380). 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Does anybody know how good is driver and management tool? Thanks, Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-scsi Fri Sep 14 23:37: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from pineapple.theshop.net (pineapple.theshop.net [208.128.7.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A51B637B40F; Fri, 14 Sep 2001 23:36:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bsdprophet.org (orange4.theshop.net [206.30.142.197]) by pineapple.theshop.net (8.11.3/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f8F6Ztt14121; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 01:35:55 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from Scott@bsdprophet.org) Message-ID: <3BA2F6FF.512C623@bsdprophet.org> Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 01:36:47 -0500 From: Scott Corey Organization: Open Source Education Foundation osef.org X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alexey Koptsevich Cc: scsi@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adaptec 2400A References: Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------E238BE82D8375CF4E09A90A4" Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------E238BE82D8375CF4E09A90A4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Right out of the HARDWARE.TXT of 4.4 RC4 "Adaptec 2400A ATA-100 RAID controller (asr(4) driver)" and I have attached the man page in a text format, just in case you are not using FreeBSD. As you will notice a driver was available as early as FreeBSD 2.2.8. Since it was donated by Adaptec, I would say it should work very well. Alexey Koptsevich wrote: > > Hello, > > It is stated at > http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/product/proddetail.html?prodkey=AAR-2400A&cat=%2fTechnology%2fRAID%2fRAID+for+Entry-Level+Servers+or+Workstations > that Adaptec 2400A is supported under FreeBSD. Does anybody know how good > is driver and management tool? > > Thanks, > Alex > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message --------------E238BE82D8375CF4E09A90A4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name="asr4.txt" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="asr4.txt" ASR(4) FreeBSD Kernel Interfaces Manual (i386 Architecture) ASR(4) NAME asr - driver for Adaptec I2O based SCSI/ATA host bus adapters SYNOPSIS device asr DESCRIPTION The Adaptec asr driver provides access to disks and disk arrays con- trolled by I2O based host bus adapters and SmartRAID SCSI RAID adapters through the standard SCSI disk da(4) interface. The adapters currently supported include the following RAID adapters: Adaptec SCSI RAID 2100S Adaptec ATA-100 RAID 2400A Adaptec SCSI RAID 3200S Adaptec SCSI RAID 3400S Adaptec SmartRAID PM1554 Adaptec SmartRAID PM2554 Adaptec SmartRAID PM2564 Adaptec SmartRAID PM2664 Adaptec SmartRAID PM2865 Adaptec SmartRAID PM3754 Adaptec SmartRAID PM3755 Adaptec SmartRAID PM3757 Some of the adapters provide 64 bit PCI, Compact PCI, ACPI and up to four channels of Ultra 160 SCSI, or two channels of 1GB Fibre. All support RAID-0, RAID-1, RAID-10, RAID-5 and RAID-50 arrays. All SCSI target types are supported. For the ATA based controllers, one IDE drive per channel is supported. Hot-swapping of IDE drives is not supported at this time. The PCI adapters automatically configure using the configuration mecha- nism of the bus they are on. With PCI adapters the IRQ sometimes has to be assigned from a BIOS configuration menu (some BIOS's do this automati- cally). All host bus adapters must be configured before they can be used with any operating system. Please contact Adaptec directly to obtain the latest information on configuration utilities for the adapters. Currently there are both a GUI Motif based configuration utility and a CLI based configu- ration utility available from the Adaptec Web site. Note that in the absence of a native FreeBSD version of the configuration utilities does not mean one cannot configure the devices via the BIOS based configura- tion tool Storage Manager on ROM (SMOR). FILES /dev/asr* Adaptec SCSI RAID control nodes NOTES The ATA based controllers present their devices as SCSI-like devices via CAM. For IDE drives attached to these cards, a subset of standard SCSI commands and mode pages are understood via translation performed in the card's firmware. SEE ALSO da(4) HISTORY The asr (Adaptec SCSI RAID) driver first appeared as the dpti2o driver under BSDi BSD/OS 3.2, then under FreeBSD 2.2.8 and was ported over to the CAM layer represented in 4.0. AUTHORS The asr driver was kindly donated by Adaptec and is maintained by Mark Salyzyn . This manual page was written by Mark Salyzyn and fixed up by Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven . FreeBSD 4.4 October 27, 2000 FreeBSD 4.4 --------------E238BE82D8375CF4E09A90A4-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-scsi Sat Sep 15 2:11:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from magic.adaptec.com (magic.adaptec.com [208.236.45.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E593E37B40D; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 02:11:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from redfish.adaptec.com (redfish.adaptec.com [162.62.50.11]) by magic.adaptec.com (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA12327; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 02:11:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from btc.btc.adaptec.com (btc.btc.adaptec.com [162.62.64.10]) by redfish.adaptec.com (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA25563; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 01:58:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hollin.btc.adaptec.com (hollin [162.62.149.56]) by btc.btc.adaptec.com (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA14719; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 03:11:12 -0600 (MDT) Received: (from scottl@localhost) by hollin.btc.adaptec.com (8.11.6/8.11.4) id f8F96Bh69457; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 03:06:11 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from scottl) Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 03:06:11 -0600 From: Scott Long To: Alexey Koptsevich Cc: scsi@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adaptec 2400A Message-ID: <20010915030610.A69138@hollin.btc.adaptec.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.19i Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 10:15:00AM +0400, Alexey Koptsevich wrote: > > Hello, > > It is stated at > http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/product/proddetail.html?prodkey=AAR-2400A&cat=%2fTechnology%2fRAID%2fRAID+for+Entry-Level+Servers+or+Workstations > that Adaptec 2400A is supported under FreeBSD. Does anybody know how good > is driver and management tool? > The card performs reasonably well for being an ATA controller, and the driver is mature and well tested. It's harder for me to comment on the management apps since I never saw what was on the final CD. At the very minimum it should have a CLI tool and a Motif-based GUI for FreeBSD. If you're lucky, it will have a Java-based GUI for FreeBSD also. The only thing I don't like about the card is that you cannot hot-plug the drives. Scott To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-scsi Sat Sep 15 2:18:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from relay.ioffe.rssi.ru (relay.ioffe.rssi.ru [194.85.224.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C856837B411; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 02:18:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from astro.ioffe.rssi.ru (astro.ioffe.rssi.ru [194.85.229.130]) by relay.ioffe.rssi.ru (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA28343; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 13:18:52 +0400 (MSD) Received: by astro.ioffe.rssi.ru (8.9.3/Clnt-2.14-AS-eef) id NAA42889; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 13:18:05 +0400 (MSD) Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 13:18:05 +0400 (MSD) From: Alexey Koptsevich To: Scott Long Cc: scsi@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adaptec 2400A In-Reply-To: <20010915030610.A69138@hollin.btc.adaptec.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > It is stated at > > http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/product/proddetail.html?prodkey=AAR-2400A&cat=%2fTechnology%2fRAID%2fRAID+for+Entry-Level+Servers+or+Workstations > > that Adaptec 2400A is supported under FreeBSD. Does anybody know how good > > is driver and management tool? > > > The card performs reasonably well for being an ATA controller, and the driver > is mature and well tested. It's harder for me to comment on the management > apps since I never saw what was on the final CD. At the very minimum it > should have a CLI tool and a Motif-based GUI for FreeBSD. If you're lucky, > it will have a Java-based GUI for FreeBSD also. The only thing I don't > like about the card is that you cannot hot-plug the drives. Scott, thanks for your reply! Do you know does Adaptec plan to produce ATA RAID controllers for more than 4 disks? If I use RAID5 & hot spare, only 2 of 4 disks are left for the data -- not very efficient... A. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message