Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 19:03:46 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: tcobb <tcobb@staff.circle.net> Cc: "'freebsd-current@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>, "'freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG>, "'simon@simon-shapiro.org'" <simon@simon-shapiro.org> Subject: Re: DPT driver fails and panics with Degraded Array Message-ID: <199805290203.TAA02883@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 28 May 1998 19:49:04 EDT." <509A2986E5C5D111B7DD0060082F32A402FABC@freya.circle.net>
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> HISTORY > I've used DPT in FreeBSD since last November, first with the hacked > 2.2.2 driver. I upgraded to 2.2.6 to fix a MBUF leak that was crashing > me about once per week. As 2.2.6, the MBUF leak disappeared and was > replaced with a once every 2-3 day panic which it appeared was not going > to get fixed by anyone (bidone: buffer not busy). So, I bit the bullet > and upgraded recently to 3.0, which seemed to fix both of these prior > panics only to reveal that the supposedly "high availability" software > driver for my HA hardware is miserable during the most critical times. Given that biodone is only called from disk drivers, and I guess you're probably only using the DPT driver, it sounds like your two problems are one. Certainly, given that 3.0 upgrade was taken against the indicators, it's hard to feel that many of your accusations are terribly justifiable. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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