From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 2 11:07:08 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D90610656D2 for ; Mon, 2 Apr 2012 11:07:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from owner-bugmaster@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C74B8FC08 for ; Mon, 2 Apr 2012 11:07:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q32B78ZF046788 for ; Mon, 2 Apr 2012 11:07:08 GMT (envelope-from owner-bugmaster@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) id q32B77rJ046786 for freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org; Mon, 2 Apr 2012 11:07:07 GMT (envelope-from owner-bugmaster@FreeBSD.org) Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 11:07:07 GMT Message-Id: <201204021107.q32B77rJ046786@freefall.freebsd.org> X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: gnats set sender to owner-bugmaster@FreeBSD.org using -f From: FreeBSD bugmaster To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org Cc: Subject: Current problem reports assigned to freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2012 11:07:08 -0000 Note: to view an individual PR, use: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=(number). The following is a listing of current problems submitted by FreeBSD users. These represent problem reports covering all versions including experimental development code and obsolete releases. S Tracker Resp. Description -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- o kern/156241 hardware [mfi] 'zfs send' does not prevents disks to suspend if 1 problem total. From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 3 01:37:15 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6126D106564A for ; Tue, 3 Apr 2012 01:37:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rondzierwa@comcast.net) Received: from qmta06.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (qmta06.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net [76.96.62.56]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D58F8FC12 for ; Tue, 3 Apr 2012 01:37:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta20.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.71]) by qmta06.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id t4tW1i0061YDfWL56Dc7Fn; Tue, 03 Apr 2012 01:36:07 +0000 Received: from sz0154.wc.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.58.220]) by omta20.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id tDc71i01l4l5d103gDc7V3; Tue, 03 Apr 2012 01:36:07 +0000 Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2012 01:36:07 +0000 (UTC) From: rondzierwa@comcast.net To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Message-ID: <1264832303.779883.1333416967866.JavaMail.root@sz0154a.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <780197047.779466.1333416414233.JavaMail.root@sz0154a.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Originating-IP: [68.50.136.212] X-Mailer: Zimbra 6.0.13_GA_2944 (ZimbraWebClient - FF3.0 (Win)/6.0.13_GA_2944) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: tyan s2892 X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2012 01:37:15 -0000 I'm replacing the motherboard my server from a tyan s2885 to a s2892 and am having some odd problems that I was hoping somebody could shed some light on. The board has two 280 cpu's and 4 x 2gb 400 mhz memory. The memory was working in my old s2885, so I'm fairly sure they are ok. I have tried the system with 2 and then with just 1 memory stick and the problems are the same. I have a 3ware 9550 pci-x raid controller, and the system boots from a sata ssd. I installed FreeBSD 8.2-release from dvd onto the ssd. The install went fine, but when I boot from the ssd, about halfway through the boot the system panics with a page fault. its fairly quick so its difficult to see exactly what happened just before the panic, and the system claims there is no dump device, so I don't have a dump. Also, when the raid controller is installed, the boot loader hangs. It presents the boot menu (windows/freebsd), I select F2 for FreeBSD, and it prints a "-" and hangs. After a minute, it reboots by itself, and will do the same thing over again. Partition 1 has dos installed and it boots ok with the raid controller installed. Is there something magic about the bios settings that needs to be set? Any ideas how to diagnose the problem? thanks, ron. From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 4 13:52:46 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8603E106564A for ; Wed, 4 Apr 2012 13:52:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mw@emile.cs.uni-saarland.de) Received: from mail.uni-sb.de (mail.uni-sb.de [134.96.252.33]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 157AE8FC26 for ; Wed, 4 Apr 2012 13:52:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.cs.uni-saarland.de (mail.cs.uni-saarland.de [134.96.254.200]) by uni-sb.de (8.14.5/2011051800) with ESMTP id q34Dqdt3003663 for ; Wed, 4 Apr 2012 15:52:39 +0200 (CEST) Received: from dennis.cs.uni-saarland.de (dennis.cs.uni-saarland.de [134.96.243.128]) by mail.cs.uni-saarland.de (8.14.5/2011051800) with ESMTP id q34DqdQV008848 for ; Wed, 4 Apr 2012 15:52:39 +0200 (CEST) Received: from emile.cs.uni-saarland.de ([134.96.243.162]) by dennis.cs.uni-saarland.de with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.77 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1SFQdb-00016E-2x for freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org; Wed, 04 Apr 2012 15:52:39 +0200 Received: from mw by emile.cs.uni-saarland.de with local (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1SFQda-0007XA-S5 for freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org; Wed, 04 Apr 2012 15:52:38 +0200 Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2012 15:52:38 +0200 From: Moritz Wilhelmy To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20120404135238.GF18733@emile.cs.uni-saarland.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-DCC-debian-Metrics: mail.cs.uni-saarland.de; whitelist Subject: Do you recommend Supermicro AOC-SAT2-MV8 as PCI-X SATA controller? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2012 13:52:46 -0000 Hello, I'm going to purchase a PCI-X SATA controller card for an NFS server. Supermicro AOC-SAT2-MV8 looks good with it's 8 SATA connectors. Before purchasing, and as my last inquiry, I wanted to make sure that this particular card is well-supported by FreeBSD. According to what I've seen in the list archives, it seems to work (with occasional issues). Is there anything else to keep in mind? Best regards, Moritz From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 4 14:35:43 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6144106567A for ; Wed, 4 Apr 2012 14:35:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from darksoul@darkbsd.org) Received: from quasar.darkbsd.org (shinigami.darkbsd.org [82.227.96.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B1988FC1A for ; Wed, 4 Apr 2012 14:35:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from quasar.darkbsd.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by quasar.darkbsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB5618100; Wed, 4 Apr 2012 16:25:53 +0200 (CEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=darkbsd.org; h=message-id :date:from:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type; s=selector1; bh=ALkinwYSeBCrCkdbIJtu+M0ga5U=; b=b yTbd/+xFuwyn/h2Dk8Hw4UiEX2jZpX7WvVEgYKpB/7tzawIin3zb3I2FCLuVqU6u YH8qNeOh5+AhLmyqSUETXjaR6ZbCYuA/tXJSKqu6Z7kb3Y0fWBepIY+5Uui5E3Nc MQIKS1ZodbwNi6bE43JcPYKowTR2oHKfncX3FXHdBY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=darkbsd.org; h=message-id :date:from:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type; q=dns; s=selector1; b=DYLJVgCpyQX06C0HeJd09zDhPh2 eOAbAa3V4nnSHtkb2iD98cgSsjH6qX/QuqJquwu7Kship/wyXT1Yd8a8NMUdkAOt iHQSeyGi6raSHXCvQEKfY+xzeq7blLd1xp0Xz0BaLsdN/Q3A3nKMmGLpEh1CO7gV W+WKTKB0y16rehCQ= Received: from quasar.darkbsd.org ([127.0.0.1]) by quasar.darkbsd.org (quasar.darkbsd.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id mwlZ5r_0a3Tg; Wed, 4 Apr 2012 16:25:52 +0200 (CEST) Received: from zelretch.yomi.darkbsd.org (zelretch.yomi.darkbsd.org [192.168.3.13]) by quasar.darkbsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CBF280F6; Wed, 4 Apr 2012 16:25:51 +0200 (CEST) Received: from zelretch.yomi.darkbsd.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zelretch.yomi.darkbsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D8EC2840C8; Wed, 4 Apr 2012 23:25:49 +0900 (JST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=darkbsd.org; h=message-id :date:from:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type; s=selector1; bh=ALkinwYSeBCrCkdbIJtu+M0ga5U=; b=b yTbd/+xFuwyn/h2Dk8Hw4UiEX2jZpX7WvVEgYKpB/7tzawIin3zb3I2FCLuVqU6u YH8qNeOh5+AhLmyqSUETXjaR6ZbCYuA/tXJSKqu6Z7kb3Y0fWBepIY+5Uui5E3Nc MQIKS1ZodbwNi6bE43JcPYKowTR2oHKfncX3FXHdBY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=darkbsd.org; h=message-id :date:from:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type; q=dns; s=selector1; b=DYLJVgCpyQX06C0HeJd09zDhPh2 eOAbAa3V4nnSHtkb2iD98cgSsjH6qX/QuqJquwu7Kship/wyXT1Yd8a8NMUdkAOt iHQSeyGi6raSHXCvQEKfY+xzeq7blLd1xp0Xz0BaLsdN/Q3A3nKMmGLpEh1CO7gV W+WKTKB0y16rehCQ= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=darkbsd.org; h= content-type:content-type:in-reply-to:references:subject:subject :mime-version:user-agent:from:from:date:date:message-id:received :received; s=selector1; t=1333549537; bh=P41mj/Lqsvk7zKPX445IApE mcqqssLeXY7IBMKaf1KA=; b=FakQY6r6wSh5FN+YJB+sI0f7qPYPbPieo44Hz4k uys3STQaJQ7mIx+wWxGh825zchxJ8RCmhluHg6v3KYuu9yNskFG/F4u84UogHSMr 0GZwPDVy9kGm5iUg8dwHriS0CXwM3CYL+kb0qRnPlIpdWGKX8jHlNDih5lMzsM4l lLME= Received: from zelretch.yomi.darkbsd.org ([127.0.0.1]) by zelretch.yomi.darkbsd.org (zelretch.yomi.darkbsd.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id QoagYW433DTZ; Wed, 4 Apr 2012 23:25:37 +0900 (JST) Received: from [IPv6:2001:470:24:42d::42] (archer.yomi.darkbsd.org [IPv6:2001:470:24:42d::42]) (Authenticated sender: darksoul) by zelretch.yomi.darkbsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2F7932840C7; Wed, 4 Apr 2012 23:25:37 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <4F7C59D8.8080406@darkbsd.org> Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2012 23:25:28 +0900 From: DarkSoul User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.28) Gecko/20120313 Thunderbird/3.1.20 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Moritz Wilhelmy References: <20120404135238.GF18733@emile.cs.uni-saarland.de> In-Reply-To: <20120404135238.GF18733@emile.cs.uni-saarland.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigFB00EC361EB9741C2944583D" Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Do you recommend Supermicro AOC-SAT2-MV8 as PCI-X SATA controller? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2012 14:35:43 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigFB00EC361EB9741C2944583D Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello, I used this card for my personal ZFS NAS (2 cards, 15 disks + 1 SSD). http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/addon/AOC-SAT2-MV8.cfm Frankly speaking, this card will work 99% of the time. But it has a few quirks : - Sometimes, I've had a port drop because maybe of a broken/dying disk. The port would NOT recover unless I cold rebooted the server. And a port not recovering means, even the BIOS option ROM programming won't find it. Quite annoying as one could guess. - I could panic a system by removing a drive (back in the 8.1-RELEASE days) because of thread locking/sleeping issues. - I don't know what is to blame for that but : - I had more than once odd queue issues and disks flapping. Not really a problem with ZFS but VERY irritating nonetheless. - I even had a whole controller drop on me once. Nothing a reboot/zpool scrub couldn't fix (with NO corruption to boot!) but still... - It really, REALLY doesn't play nice with other cards. I tried migrating progressively to mpt(4) cards, with a one by one switch, only to experience stray NMIs and pretty ugly kernel panics. It turned out having a "pure" system with two f the same kind (mind, I was not pairing PCI-X and PCIe, this was in every case pure PCI-X setups) did wonders for stability. It's probably fairly decent for most home purposes (my main use), but I'd advise against it in any serious environment. Cheers, On 04/04/2012 10:52 PM, Moritz Wilhelmy wrote: > Hello, > > I'm going to purchase a PCI-X SATA controller card for an NFS server. > Supermicro AOC-SAT2-MV8 looks good with it's 8 SATA connectors. > > Before purchasing, and as my last inquiry, I wanted to make sure that > this particular card is well-supported by FreeBSD. > > According to what I've seen in the list archives, it seems to work (wit= h > occasional issues). Is there anything else to keep in mind? > > Best regards, > > Moritz > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hardware-unsubscribe@freebsd.= org" --=20 Stephane LAPIE, EPITA SRS, Promo 2005 "Even when they have digital readouts, I can't understand them." --MegaTokyo --------------enigFB00EC361EB9741C2944583D Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk98Wd8ACgkQ24Ql8u6TF2PlxgCffAxro/GTvWbkbEr2O8x5gSkw erYAoMTqd4sOguT0ExL6mWONrAPCDZ6y =w7U8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigFB00EC361EB9741C2944583D-- From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 4 14:41:39 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A402106566C; Wed, 4 Apr 2012 14:41:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stephane.lapie@darkbsd.org) Received: from quasar.darkbsd.org (shinigami.darkbsd.org [82.227.96.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 036AE8FC08; Wed, 4 Apr 2012 14:41:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from quasar.darkbsd.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by quasar.darkbsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1D008126; Wed, 4 Apr 2012 16:41:37 +0200 (CEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=darkbsd.org; h=message-id :date:from:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type; s=selector1; bh=QIdujd8lMGSWur4V5prp/vIbPbE=; b=L F9akk29JVyQR9bekNYItHKewmWd49CJcsAE9Zd5giDmFPkOhHpbtiocMm6/MMM6y vBM1qEW8l3UT4bz4OMfp2FDcQ6iXaNeugXgPRI3Z91/Va0ytQap1Mh/NM76NoA6W Z/eOAQfi/nXv5vUkbLRuh6q+xyoFf3vpkPRO9ISaIM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=darkbsd.org; h=message-id :date:from:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type; q=dns; s=selector1; b=ITOhZXE6Yb0HR8Fibo1E7va6bUN 3vq+dkBvGQeafyAI0G3BHqWtWztB7OL+ie6HGkyAP4PZseSwy3JpSFwPOzzNX3bk 4p036J2DGE7ZazTq5Pv+Q4zxmaJ6hlbY+MXvQJfgnxlwXychnUtECOX+vpfSkPef ActTpol51gnmXXlw= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=darkbsd.org; h= content-type:content-type:in-reply-to:references:subject:subject :mime-version:user-agent:from:from:date:date:message-id:received :received; s=selector1; t=1333550496; bh=QWmsKaWJZf8CXDoPkCBeuZ7 oavAdAHHAg+MYthjfGiA=; b=bvC3/Sa2UgcZAcclo+QC+jNcURa0739vxwk2Pkk 5h0mOjObisAmkdHgI2Yhj4YxJnMzMt4HH51xNxO8DD/m7K+pbQJT3nLgXATo1uMt GznfhfEnOFwxqDdZ8fEYjQE4eVWCEhkVfUA/hw5VOVy3DkWzL3zw4ATF09hX02Th 8qvw= Received: from quasar.darkbsd.org ([127.0.0.1]) by quasar.darkbsd.org (quasar.darkbsd.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id aTUHjo19mPng; Wed, 4 Apr 2012 16:41:36 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.3.42] (archer.yomi.darkbsd.org [192.168.3.42]) (Authenticated sender: darksoul) by quasar.darkbsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id AFC9F811E; Wed, 4 Apr 2012 16:41:35 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4F7C5D97.3040308@darkbsd.org> Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2012 23:41:27 +0900 From: Stephane LAPIE User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.28) Gecko/20120313 Thunderbird/3.1.20 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: rondzierwa@comcast.net References: <1264832303.779883.1333416967866.JavaMail.root@sz0154a.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <1264832303.779883.1333416967866.JavaMail.root@sz0154a.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig71003ED4CDF806F4D4BD52C0" Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tyan s2892 X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2012 14:41:39 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig71003ED4CDF806F4D4BD52C0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable This reminds me of my experiences trying to build a ZFS server on a 2x Opteron 275 Tyan setup. I would sometimes get very odd page faults while running (this has been the case ever since FreeBSD 8.X, this setup would work pretty well on FreeBSD 7.X). Also, the boot loader issue reminds me of something I've seen in the past around 2009. Both : - USB key boot - USB CD ROM boot would not work. I would just experience a complete freeze (John Baldwin acknowledged there was a bug in how the real mode interrupt handlers, and register cleaning were called by the boot loader code) In the end, I had to resort to booting from a CF card on an IDE port... The odder thing is I never witnessed that behavior on any other motherboa= rd. Cheers, On 04/03/2012 10:36 AM, rondzierwa@comcast.net wrote: > I'm replacing the motherboard my server from a tyan s2885 to a s2892 an= d am having some odd problems that I was hoping somebody could shed some = light on.=20 > > The board has two 280 cpu's and 4 x 2gb 400 mhz memory. The memory was = working in my old s2885, so I'm fairly sure they are ok. I have tried the= system with 2 and then with just 1 memory stick and the problems are the= same.=20 > > I have a 3ware 9550 pci-x raid controller, and the system boots from a = sata ssd. I installed FreeBSD 8.2-release from dvd onto the ssd. The inst= all went fine, but when I boot from the ssd, about halfway through the bo= ot the system panics with a page fault. its fairly quick so its difficult= to see exactly what happened just before the panic, and the system claim= s there is no dump device, so I don't have a dump.=20 > > Also, when the raid controller is installed, the boot loader hangs. It = presents the boot menu (windows/freebsd), I select F2 for FreeBSD, and it= prints a "-" and hangs. After a minute, it reboots by itself, and will d= o the same thing over again.=20 > > Partition 1 has dos installed and it boots ok with the raid controller = installed.=20 > > Is there something magic about the bios settings that needs to be set? = Any ideas how to diagnose the problem?=20 > > thanks,=20 > ron.=20 > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hardware-unsubscribe@freebsd.= org" --=20 Stephane LAPIE, EPITA SRS, Promo 2005 "Even when they have digital readouts, I can't understand them." --MegaTokyo --------------enig71003ED4CDF806F4D4BD52C0 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk98XZcACgkQ24Ql8u6TF2PzjwCfRwF5dfqfZqTdSHlryRFydXKl pc8AniJFBvcnepUSeEWY0QkfEPz/J48v =rg2v -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig71003ED4CDF806F4D4BD52C0-- From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 4 15:46:45 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A258F1065672 for ; Wed, 4 Apr 2012 15:46:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mw@emile.cs.uni-saarland.de) Received: from mail.uni-sb.de (mail.uni-sb.de [134.96.252.33]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3111C8FC08 for ; Wed, 4 Apr 2012 15:46:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.cs.uni-saarland.de (mail.cs.uni-saarland.de [134.96.254.200]) by uni-sb.de (8.14.5/2011051800) with ESMTP id q34Fkf2F028691; Wed, 4 Apr 2012 17:46:41 +0200 (CEST) Received: from dennis.cs.uni-saarland.de (dennis.cs.uni-saarland.de [134.96.243.128]) by mail.cs.uni-saarland.de (8.14.5/2011051800) with ESMTP id q34Fke7W013714; Wed, 4 Apr 2012 17:46:40 +0200 (CEST) Received: from emile.cs.uni-saarland.de ([134.96.243.162]) by dennis.cs.uni-saarland.de with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.77 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1SFSPw-0001Th-G6; Wed, 04 Apr 2012 17:46:40 +0200 Received: from mw by emile.cs.uni-saarland.de with local (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1SFSPw-0007wE-8n; Wed, 04 Apr 2012 17:46:40 +0200 Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2012 17:46:40 +0200 From: Moritz Wilhelmy To: DarkSoul Message-ID: <20120404154639.GG18733@emile.cs.uni-saarland.de> References: <20120404135238.GF18733@emile.cs.uni-saarland.de> <4F7C59D8.8080406@darkbsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4F7C59D8.8080406@darkbsd.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-DCC-dcc1.aftenposten.no-Metrics: mail.cs.uni-saarland.de; whitelist Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Do you recommend Supermicro AOC-SAT2-MV8 as PCI-X SATA controller? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2012 15:46:45 -0000 Hello, On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 23:25:28 +0900, DarkSoul wrote: > I used this card for my personal ZFS NAS (2 cards, 15 disks + 1 SSD). > > http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/addon/AOC-SAT2-MV8.cfm > > Frankly speaking, this card will work 99% of the time. But it has a few > quirks : > - Sometimes, I've had a port drop because maybe of a broken/dying disk. > The port would NOT recover unless I cold rebooted the server. > And a port not recovering means, even the BIOS option ROM programming > won't find it. > Quite annoying as one could guess. > - I could panic a system by removing a drive (back in the 8.1-RELEASE > days) because of thread locking/sleeping issues. > - I don't know what is to blame for that but : > - I had more than once odd queue issues and disks flapping. Not really > a problem with ZFS but VERY irritating nonetheless. > - I even had a whole controller drop on me once. Nothing a reboot/zpool > scrub couldn't fix (with NO corruption to boot!) but still... > - It really, REALLY doesn't play nice with other cards. I tried > migrating progressively to mpt(4) cards, with a one by one switch, only > to experience stray NMIs and pretty ugly kernel panics. It turned out > having a "pure" system with two f the same kind (mind, I was not pairing > PCI-X and PCIe, this was in every case pure PCI-X setups) did wonders > for stability. > > It's probably fairly decent for most home purposes (my main use), > but I'd advise against it in any serious environment. Can you (or someone else for that matter) recommend any decent PCI-X controller for use in "serious environments", preferably with more than 4 Ports and in the same price category? :-) The setup is rather serious, but then again, I don't expect having to replace disks all the time (so if there isn't anything else that would cost about the same, I might just go with this one)... It affects about 30 users. I heard Silicon Image cards are supposed to be good? I don't need or want a hardware RAID-controller, because I'd prefer using software RAID (and don't want to waste the extra money). Best regards, Moritz From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 4 16:18:22 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86B95106566B for ; Wed, 4 Apr 2012 16:18:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stephane.lapie@darkbsd.org) Received: from quasar.darkbsd.org (shinigami.darkbsd.org [82.227.96.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2284F8FC08 for ; Wed, 4 Apr 2012 16:18:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from quasar.darkbsd.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by quasar.darkbsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C1D881DB; Wed, 4 Apr 2012 18:18:20 +0200 (CEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=darkbsd.org; h=message-id :date:from:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type; s=selector1; bh=d6Syh4QTZAdtT47bEDLgQS9XP5o=; b=W s2paJd4M7hU2vNPsCFn3yCkdEkJc9mHcQbWHaIdL/IR2h8zs5g4J7nYs74OfeHD7 Qiy7LYFZAWYmTo/crdqvyq99QYFjBdGY0sEkJ9SCvI/83/S2GLJHSzB108YGHAv8 1BnJkETXn9rXvdy1bjH8sUAiSoJwAPNmPZ44f1DZDA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=darkbsd.org; h=message-id :date:from:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type; q=dns; s=selector1; b=K3IX8qisVpiapa0dQJq8dPsOnLe /xelXt3HzhPyunKTPLT8rxkwxPrb6vPa3p2anMDL16wFFCh9VAqZxRlwG+ZJ8lD5 ztE+eh4CKlVsU2dwCYRZL1+v+8NYqODytuQjMlBDIYyZILFVjUX7jfYEGC2gXaZK BRn0vFxBqWcXbzuI= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=darkbsd.org; h= content-type:content-type:in-reply-to:references:subject:subject :mime-version:user-agent:from:from:date:date:message-id:received :received; s=selector1; t=1333556299; bh=GRahIGMKgSr9FYdtCNhnBTh gIaLia+i2rxXVQyxOEf4=; b=iUYOhaBZcZPmi41szTFb6OfGmnIywZWQyGUEyIm +nDjOoGgFkKvc0BodaabfhIi5guOQnJxn5AGKRo8XWvtwZZb0MYBz5amt2FX3+ow xacdAkZqc/W7hV5B2pEavqSaPFi9n1B7QiHoV4jlaWEQnMgfzHWrenU/VOx+T9XZ KOvU= Received: from quasar.darkbsd.org ([127.0.0.1]) by quasar.darkbsd.org (quasar.darkbsd.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id y3nzmac4XFQO; Wed, 4 Apr 2012 18:18:19 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.3.42] (archer.yomi.darkbsd.org [192.168.3.42]) (Authenticated sender: darksoul) by quasar.darkbsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C28F581D3; Wed, 4 Apr 2012 18:18:17 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4F7C7443.9090304@darkbsd.org> Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2012 01:18:11 +0900 From: Stephane LAPIE User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.28) Gecko/20120313 Thunderbird/3.1.20 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Moritz Wilhelmy References: <20120404135238.GF18733@emile.cs.uni-saarland.de> <4F7C59D8.8080406@darkbsd.org> <20120404154639.GG18733@emile.cs.uni-saarland.de> In-Reply-To: <20120404154639.GG18733@emile.cs.uni-saarland.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig749AE8A9A9987AE80F1CDA61" Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Do you recommend Supermicro AOC-SAT2-MV8 as PCI-X SATA controller? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2012 16:18:22 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig749AE8A9A9987AE80F1CDA61 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Right now I'm using this controller : mpt0@pci0:6:1:0: class=3D0x010000 card=3D0x10aa1734 chip=3D0x00541000 rev=3D0x01 hdr=3D0x00 vendor =3D 'LSI Logic / Symbios Logic' device =3D 'SAS1068 PCI-X Fusion-MPT SAS' class =3D mass storage subclass =3D SCSI mpt1@pci0:6:7:0: class=3D0x010000 card=3D0x10aa1734 chip=3D0x00541000 rev=3D0x01 hdr=3D0x00 vendor =3D 'LSI Logic / Symbios Logic' device =3D 'SAS1068 PCI-X Fusion-MPT SAS' class =3D mass storage subclass =3D SCSI http://www.lsi.com/products/storagecomponents/Pages/LSISAS1068.aspx The only problem is, that card is an OEM version that was a bit tricky to find. I got it off an auction site in Japan, but I guess it covers pretty much what you want, in that it will advertise disks as physical volumes by default. My only complaint on FreeBSD 9.X so far is that, it has trouble doing SMART probes on the disks using passthrough :) Performance is top notch, even though I had to tweak my /boot/loader.conf= to have a long SCSI timeout for disk detection (as you can imagine, 15 disks will take a LONG time to detect.) : kern.cam.scsi_delay=3D15000 Otherwise you could pretty much shoot for this one if PCI-X is not a requirement : mfi0@pci0:2:0:0: class=3D0x010400 card=3D0x92401000 chip=3D0x00731000 rev=3D0x02 hdr=3D0x00 vendor =3D 'LSI Logic (Was: Symbios Logic, NCR)' class =3D mass storage subclass =3D RAID The only real beef with this one is driver support, as I had to make it work by using LSI's driver, (which will require some simple patching if you plan on using it on 9.X) and it won't handle more than one card at once as it stands. I'm not quite aware of support status for this baby in 9.0 or 10.0. Cheers, On 04/05/2012 12:46 AM, Moritz Wilhelmy wrote: > Hello, > > On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 23:25:28 +0900, DarkSoul wrote: >> I used this card for my personal ZFS NAS (2 cards, 15 disks + 1 SSD). >> >> http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/addon/AOC-SAT2-MV8.cfm >> >> Frankly speaking, this card will work 99% of the time. But it has a fe= w >> quirks : >> - Sometimes, I've had a port drop because maybe of a broken/dying disk= =2E >> The port would NOT recover unless I cold rebooted the server. >> And a port not recovering means, even the BIOS option ROM programmin= g >> won't find it. >> Quite annoying as one could guess. >> - I could panic a system by removing a drive (back in the 8.1-RELEASE >> days) because of thread locking/sleeping issues. >> - I don't know what is to blame for that but : >> - I had more than once odd queue issues and disks flapping. Not reall= y >> a problem with ZFS but VERY irritating nonetheless. >> - I even had a whole controller drop on me once. Nothing a reboot/zpo= ol >> scrub couldn't fix (with NO corruption to boot!) but still... >> - It really, REALLY doesn't play nice with other cards. I tried >> migrating progressively to mpt(4) cards, with a one by one switch, onl= y >> to experience stray NMIs and pretty ugly kernel panics. It turned out >> having a "pure" system with two f the same kind (mind, I was not pairi= ng >> PCI-X and PCIe, this was in every case pure PCI-X setups) did wonders >> for stability. >> >> It's probably fairly decent for most home purposes (my main use), >> but I'd advise against it in any serious environment. > Can you (or someone else for that matter) recommend any decent PCI-X > controller for use in "serious environments", preferably with more than= > 4 Ports and in the same price category? :-) > The setup is rather serious, but then again, I don't expect having to > replace disks all the time (so if there isn't anything else that would > cost about the same, I might just go with this one)... It affects about= > 30 users. I heard Silicon Image cards are supposed to be good? > > I don't need or want a hardware RAID-controller, because I'd prefer > using software RAID (and don't want to waste the extra money). > > > Best regards, > > Moritz --=20 Stephane LAPIE, EPITA SRS, Promo 2005 "Even when they have digital readouts, I can't understand them." --MegaTokyo --------------enig749AE8A9A9987AE80F1CDA61 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk98dEMACgkQ24Ql8u6TF2P75ACgsCjOXquiDIaheScUlwMIEw3H l3gAoJXkkG8wHXb+mM8secuVNGxTiDow =ctNp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig749AE8A9A9987AE80F1CDA61-- From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 4 17:36:33 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B167106564A for ; Wed, 4 Apr 2012 17:36:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mw@emile.cs.uni-saarland.de) Received: from mail.uni-sb.de (mail.uni-sb.de [134.96.252.33]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CDC98FC08 for ; Wed, 4 Apr 2012 17:36:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.cs.uni-saarland.de (mail.cs.uni-saarland.de [134.96.254.200]) by uni-sb.de (8.14.5/2011051800) with ESMTP id q34HaU4c024598; Wed, 4 Apr 2012 19:36:30 +0200 (CEST) Received: from dennis.cs.uni-saarland.de (dennis.cs.uni-saarland.de [134.96.243.128]) by mail.cs.uni-saarland.de (8.14.5/2011051800) with ESMTP id q34HaTcp017021; Wed, 4 Apr 2012 19:36:30 +0200 (CEST) Received: from emile.cs.uni-saarland.de ([134.96.243.162]) by dennis.cs.uni-saarland.de with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.77 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1SFU8D-0002iy-JN; Wed, 04 Apr 2012 19:36:29 +0200 Received: from mw by emile.cs.uni-saarland.de with local (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1SFU8D-0008Ge-CM; Wed, 04 Apr 2012 19:36:29 +0200 Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2012 19:36:29 +0200 From: Moritz Wilhelmy To: Stephane LAPIE Message-ID: <20120404173628.GH18733@emile.cs.uni-saarland.de> References: <20120404135238.GF18733@emile.cs.uni-saarland.de> <4F7C59D8.8080406@darkbsd.org> <20120404154639.GG18733@emile.cs.uni-saarland.de> <4F7C7443.9090304@darkbsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4F7C7443.9090304@darkbsd.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-DCC-dcc1.aftenposten.no-Metrics: mail.cs.uni-saarland.de; whitelist Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Do you recommend Supermicro AOC-SAT2-MV8 as PCI-X SATA controller? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2012 17:36:33 -0000 Hello Stephane, Thanks for the informative reply! On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 01:18:11 +0900, Stephane LAPIE wrote: > Right now I'm using this controller : > > mpt0@pci0:6:1:0: class=0x010000 card=0x10aa1734 chip=0x00541000 > rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 > vendor = 'LSI Logic / Symbios Logic' > device = 'SAS1068 PCI-X Fusion-MPT SAS' > class = mass storage > subclass = SCSI > mpt1@pci0:6:7:0: class=0x010000 card=0x10aa1734 chip=0x00541000 > rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 > vendor = 'LSI Logic / Symbios Logic' > device = 'SAS1068 PCI-X Fusion-MPT SAS' > class = mass storage > subclass = SCSI > > http://www.lsi.com/products/storagecomponents/Pages/LSISAS1068.aspx > > The only problem is, that card is an OEM version that was a bit tricky > to find. > I got it off an auction site in Japan, but I guess it covers pretty much > what you want, > in that it will advertise disks as physical volumes by default. I see. I'll try to get my hands on one, but anything that's hard to buy is also not an option (as always with universities, there is already enough bureaucracy involved). Unfortunately, this limits the choice of hardware :-( > My only complaint on FreeBSD 9.X so far is that, > it has trouble doing SMART probes on the disks using passthrough :) Uh, that's bad with that many disks... How do you work around it, if at all? > Performance is top notch, even though I had to tweak my /boot/loader.conf > to have a long SCSI timeout for disk detection (as you can imagine, > 15 disks will take a LONG time to detect.) : > kern.cam.scsi_delay=15000 How's the performance of the AOC-SAT2-MV8 compared to this one? > Otherwise you could pretty much shoot for this one if PCI-X is not a > requirement : > > mfi0@pci0:2:0:0: class=0x010400 card=0x92401000 chip=0x00731000 > rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 > vendor = 'LSI Logic (Was: Symbios Logic, NCR)' > class = mass storage > subclass = RAID > > The only real beef with this one is driver support, > as I had to make it work by using LSI's driver, > (which will require some simple patching if you plan on using it on 9.X) > and it won't handle more than one card at once as it stands. > I'm not quite aware of support status for this baby in 9.0 or 10.0. Unfortunately, the mainboard doesn't have any PCIe slots, because then I assume I would have a lot more cards to choose from... Best regards, Moritz From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 4 17:41:11 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EB8B10658A5 for ; Wed, 4 Apr 2012 17:41:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mw@emile.cs.uni-saarland.de) Received: from mail.uni-sb.de (mail.uni-sb.de [134.96.252.33]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E54148FC08 for ; Wed, 4 Apr 2012 17:41:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.cs.uni-saarland.de (mail.cs.uni-saarland.de [134.96.254.200]) by uni-sb.de (8.14.5/2011051800) with ESMTP id q34HfA1W027060 for ; Wed, 4 Apr 2012 19:41:10 +0200 (CEST) Received: from dennis.cs.uni-saarland.de (dennis.cs.uni-saarland.de [134.96.243.128]) by mail.cs.uni-saarland.de (8.14.5/2011051800) with ESMTP id q34Hf9NU017152 for ; Wed, 4 Apr 2012 19:41:10 +0200 (CEST) Received: from emile.cs.uni-saarland.de ([134.96.243.162]) by dennis.cs.uni-saarland.de with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.77 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1SFUCj-0002jo-OS for freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org; Wed, 04 Apr 2012 19:41:09 +0200 Received: from mw by emile.cs.uni-saarland.de with local (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1SFUCj-0008Hc-HD for freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org; Wed, 04 Apr 2012 19:41:09 +0200 Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2012 19:41:09 +0200 From: Moritz Wilhelmy To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20120404174109.GI18733@emile.cs.uni-saarland.de> References: <20120404135238.GF18733@emile.cs.uni-saarland.de> <4F7C59D8.8080406@darkbsd.org> <20120404154639.GG18733@emile.cs.uni-saarland.de> <4F7C7443.9090304@darkbsd.org> <20120404173628.GH18733@emile.cs.uni-saarland.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120404173628.GH18733@emile.cs.uni-saarland.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-DCC-dcc1.aftenposten.no-Metrics: mail.cs.uni-saarland.de; whitelist Subject: Re: Do you recommend Supermicro AOC-SAT2-MV8 as PCI-X SATA controller? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2012 17:41:11 -0000 On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 19:36:29 +0200, Moritz Wilhelmy wrote: > How's the performance of the AOC-SAT2-MV8 compared to this one? Silly me, the AOC-SAT2-MV8 only does 300MB/s, the LSI controller page states that it "Provides 1.5 and 3Gb/s data transfer rates per port". Our current NFS server has a 3ware card, and I'm not entirely satisfied, so I want to try something else for the new one... Moritz From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 4 18:00:56 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4C2C1065670 for ; Wed, 4 Apr 2012 18:00:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mw@emile.cs.uni-saarland.de) Received: from mail.uni-sb.de (mail.uni-sb.de [134.96.252.33]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3130A8FC18 for ; Wed, 4 Apr 2012 18:00:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.cs.uni-saarland.de (mail.cs.uni-saarland.de [134.96.254.200]) by uni-sb.de (8.14.5/2011051800) with ESMTP id q34I0tJB026967 for ; Wed, 4 Apr 2012 20:00:55 +0200 (CEST) Received: from dennis.cs.uni-saarland.de (dennis.cs.uni-saarland.de [134.96.243.128]) by mail.cs.uni-saarland.de (8.14.5/2011051800) with ESMTP id q34I0tUf017598 for ; Wed, 4 Apr 2012 20:00:55 +0200 (CEST) Received: from emile.cs.uni-saarland.de ([134.96.243.162]) by dennis.cs.uni-saarland.de with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.77 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1SFUVq-0002o7-U0 for freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org; Wed, 04 Apr 2012 20:00:54 +0200 Received: from mw by emile.cs.uni-saarland.de with local (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1SFUVq-0008L8-Mu for freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org; Wed, 04 Apr 2012 20:00:54 +0200 Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2012 20:00:54 +0200 From: Moritz Wilhelmy To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20120404180054.GJ18733@emile.cs.uni-saarland.de> References: <20120404135238.GF18733@emile.cs.uni-saarland.de> <4F7C59D8.8080406@darkbsd.org> <20120404154639.GG18733@emile.cs.uni-saarland.de> <4F7C7443.9090304@darkbsd.org> <20120404173628.GH18733@emile.cs.uni-saarland.de> <20120404174109.GI18733@emile.cs.uni-saarland.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120404174109.GI18733@emile.cs.uni-saarland.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-DCC-sonic.net-Metrics: mail.cs.uni-saarland.de; whitelist Subject: Re: Do you recommend Supermicro AOC-SAT2-MV8 as PCI-X SATA controller? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2012 18:00:56 -0000 There must be something wrong with me today. On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 19:41:09 +0200, Moritz Wilhelmy wrote: > On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 19:36:29 +0200, Moritz Wilhelmy wrote: > > How's the performance of the AOC-SAT2-MV8 compared to this one? > > Silly me, the AOC-SAT2-MV8 only does 300MB/s, the LSI controller > page states that it "Provides 1.5 and 3Gb/s data transfer rates per > port". The AOC-SAT2-MV8 page states the following: "Data Transfer Rates Up to 3.0 Gigabits/sec per port" I don't know where the 300MB/s came from. Maybe the 3ware card... How do they compare with regard to performance? Also, sorry for the noise.. Moritz From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 5 16:50:04 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC433106566C for ; Thu, 5 Apr 2012 16:50:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stephane.lapie@darkbsd.org) Received: from quasar.darkbsd.org (shinigami.darkbsd.org [82.227.96.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DA078FC0A for ; Thu, 5 Apr 2012 16:50:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from quasar.darkbsd.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by quasar.darkbsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79EE287D5; Thu, 5 Apr 2012 18:49:56 +0200 (CEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=darkbsd.org; h=message-id :date:from:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type; s=selector1; bh=AEekHWvEfonXxmaD87+i4xZKFvM=; b=X f7oVRsG7OPKYTQcLewWM5M/ZUDqmwluoRvNw44Ko/OZREBLF/crK6p0Nkcqcox3T t69eqd5NYb8n480amqnFCW3f1pAim8jB9PnN3Ol9yTtfepRz8y2NnWuIAHka3fFT 3QiL3quHz2C43ezJbhdCB2/KUknxR7nVC0egCy4tk4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=darkbsd.org; h=message-id :date:from:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type; q=dns; s=selector1; b=iNMxDdafqVFCmbART9Ii9EBBx24 cOvm4Nt0URdZuAIEdhQYmxVxJ73n9jihzUYtSlr+mpoTlvPebYeNYvOnnl/bjwDv RI6L6bNObrw3B/CTD6P0stKvV6G88+ubS/0GxeJS8ATmp7/b6lsfsXsc5YHr842L 3t/XhUU4kWoKaHME= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=darkbsd.org; h= content-type:content-type:in-reply-to:references:subject:subject :mime-version:user-agent:from:from:date:date:message-id:received :received; s=selector1; t=1333644595; bh=GEiwDexnPyj735WPiG3py38 OhVlQzFDaI8JlHKmYqBQ=; b=iBjMjZ0TaRwMK7Ejk81Ro8V9l3vdHcii/o/yx8n O1Z3OhriKPIV6ltQxvX65HaI5nXWZ+NBYg2D/rhBRn7rvE7/Pyog85RmFn4knhMc 7EIBjW4egzgHkGedJbUldTpYHELcs16gXeROSobaWefA4ciu9x4uLlc5lmF562/0 59zw= Received: from quasar.darkbsd.org ([127.0.0.1]) by quasar.darkbsd.org (quasar.darkbsd.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id wNRj9POWHMp0; Thu, 5 Apr 2012 18:49:55 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.3.42] (archer.yomi.darkbsd.org [192.168.3.42]) (Authenticated sender: darksoul) by quasar.darkbsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2DD4687CE; Thu, 5 Apr 2012 18:49:53 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4F7DCD28.6000103@darkbsd.org> Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2012 01:49:44 +0900 From: Stephane LAPIE User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.28) Gecko/20120313 Thunderbird/3.1.20 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Moritz Wilhelmy References: <20120404135238.GF18733@emile.cs.uni-saarland.de> <4F7C59D8.8080406@darkbsd.org> <20120404154639.GG18733@emile.cs.uni-saarland.de> <4F7C7443.9090304@darkbsd.org> <20120404173628.GH18733@emile.cs.uni-saarland.de> In-Reply-To: <20120404173628.GH18733@emile.cs.uni-saarland.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigE2F0C526CED020A9F7C85970" Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Do you recommend Supermicro AOC-SAT2-MV8 as PCI-X SATA controller? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2012 16:50:04 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigE2F0C526CED020A9F7C85970 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello Moritz, On 04/05/2012 02:36 AM, Moritz Wilhelmy wrote: > Hello Stephane, > > Thanks for the informative reply! > > On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 01:18:11 +0900, Stephane LAPIE wrote: >> Right now I'm using this controller : >> >> mpt0@pci0:6:1:0: class=3D0x010000 card=3D0x10aa1734 chip=3D0x005410= 00 >> rev=3D0x01 hdr=3D0x00 >> vendor =3D 'LSI Logic / Symbios Logic' >> device =3D 'SAS1068 PCI-X Fusion-MPT SAS' >> class =3D mass storage >> subclass =3D SCSI >> mpt1@pci0:6:7:0: class=3D0x010000 card=3D0x10aa1734 chip=3D0x005410= 00 >> rev=3D0x01 hdr=3D0x00 >> vendor =3D 'LSI Logic / Symbios Logic' >> device =3D 'SAS1068 PCI-X Fusion-MPT SAS' >> class =3D mass storage >> subclass =3D SCSI >> >> http://www.lsi.com/products/storagecomponents/Pages/LSISAS1068.aspx >> >> The only problem is, that card is an OEM version that was a bit tricky= >> to find. >> I got it off an auction site in Japan, but I guess it covers pretty mu= ch >> what you want, >> in that it will advertise disks as physical volumes by default. > > I see. I'll try to get my hands on one, but anything that's hard to buy= > is also not an option (as always with universities, there is already > enough bureaucracy involved). Unfortunately, this limits the choice of > hardware :-( I see :( >> My only complaint on FreeBSD 9.X so far is that, >> it has trouble doing SMART probes on the disks using passthrough :) > > Uh, that's bad with that many disks... How do you work around it, if at= > all? I didn't manage yet :( I'm pretty much stuck... > >> Performance is top notch, even though I had to tweak my /boot/loader.c= onf >> to have a long SCSI timeout for disk detection (as you can imagine, >> 15 disks will take a LONG time to detect.) : >> kern.cam.scsi_delay=3D15000 > > How's the performance of the AOC-SAT2-MV8 compared to this one? I don't remember the exact figures. But given that the mvs(4) sometimes hanged up (most of the time silently, really bad times would have drives flap in and out), I say that mpt(4) comes out on top easy. Other than that... My testing was done using all of my Gbit interfaces and trying to max them all at once, and I could bust out something like 300-400MB/s in pure transfer speeds using HTTP. I'm not sure if the zpool iostat are to be trusted, but I reckon mvs(4) would go up to 400MB/s while mpt(4) did go around 500-600MB/s... (take that with a healthy grain of salt) Cheers --=20 Stephane LAPIE, EPITA SRS, Promo 2005 "Even when they have digital readouts, I can't understand them." --MegaTokyo --------------enigE2F0C526CED020A9F7C85970 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk99zSsACgkQ24Ql8u6TF2NSHACgjpR5Gay3crFXh4dh10hW8YPX 12AAoMbBHsKohWxMlWrNtMSs9EBlKmUn =FgK/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigE2F0C526CED020A9F7C85970-- From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 6 17:19:29 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8315106566B for ; Fri, 6 Apr 2012 17:19:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from michael@fuckner.net) Received: from dedihh.fuckner.net (dedihh.fuckner.net [81.209.183.161]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60AF78FC14 for ; Fri, 6 Apr 2012 17:19:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dedihh.fuckner.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dedihh.fuckner.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 870A25FE3 for ; Fri, 6 Apr 2012 18:13:14 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at fuckner.net Received: from dedihh.fuckner.net ([127.0.0.1]) by dedihh.fuckner.net (dedihh.fuckner.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with SMTP id 3VBXMRRE22IR for ; Fri, 6 Apr 2012 18:13:09 +0200 (CEST) Received: from c64.rebootking.de (e176132221.adsl.alicedsl.de [85.176.132.221]) by dedihh.fuckner.net (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 239235FD6 for ; Fri, 6 Apr 2012 18:13:09 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4F7F245A.3050405@fuckner.net> Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2012 19:14:02 +0200 From: Michael Fuckner User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:10.0.3) Gecko/20120315 Thunderbird/10.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------080207000809020106000706" Subject: [patch]: decode CPU-flag RDRAND X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2012 17:19:29 -0000 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------080207000809020106000706 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, this patch for /usr/src/sys/amd64/amd64/identcpu.c decodes the CPU-Flag for the HW Random Number Generator integrated into next gen Ivy Bridge CPUs. Regards, Michael! --------------080207000809020106000706 Content-Type: text/plain; name="identcpu-rdrand.patch" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="identcpu-rdrand.patch" 306c306 < "\037" --- > "\037RDRAND" /* HW Random Number Generator */ --------------080207000809020106000706--