From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 2 12:36:22 2003 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 4BF8316A4BF for ; Thu, 2 Oct 2003 12:36:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cobra.acceleratedweb.net (cobra-gw.acceleratedweb.net [207.99.79.37]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D811743FCB for ; Thu, 2 Oct 2003 12:36:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from simon@optinet.com) Received: (qmail 66705 invoked by uid 110); 2 Oct 2003 19:36:23 -0000 Received: from ool-18baaf5c.dyn.optonline.net (HELO win2kpc1) (24.186.175.92) by cobra.acceleratedweb.net with SMTP; 2 Oct 2003 19:36:23 -0000 From: "Simon" To: "Cassidy B. Larson" , "freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org" Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 15:36:06 -0400 Priority: Normal X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.20.2661) For Windows 2000 (5.0.2195;4) In-Reply-To: <20031002181504.6DD4443FE3@mx1.FreeBSD.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20031002193618.D811743FCB@mx1.FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: Re: 3ware escalade 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: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 19:36:22 -0000 I just want to confirm that rebooting a server with 3ware 7500-8 while in rebuilding mode, reboots the machine just fine. The controller comes back in rebuilding mode and starts to rebuild in few minutes. However, I'm not sure if it starts from scratch or continues where it had left off. I guess I could verify this, but it doesn't really matter to me as I don't expect to reboot in the middle of a rebuild. Having said the above, there might be something wrong with your 8506 controller if it does not reboot after rebooting while in rebuilding mode. Maybe you need firmware upgrade, I would contact 3ware. -Simon On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 14:14:49 -0400, Simon wrote: > >If I'm not mistaken and from what I recall, in theory, you should be able to >reboot in the middle of a rebuild, however, once it comes back, you would >have to start rebuilding it from scratch. It should not prevent your machine >from booting, though, why? because the array is still functional as only 1 >drive failed, maybe something else happened to your system. To see if if >this is the case, I'm gonna try it right now with my 7500-8 controller. Perhaps >someone on the list can confirm this. I believe I tried this once with Mylex >Accelerated serries and it worked as I describe above. > >-Simon > > >On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 09:28:50 -0600, Cassidy B. Larson wrote: > >>I would think for Redundancy in a RAID array a hardware controller should be >>allowed to have the machine reboot during a rebuild process and not loose >>track of where it is, and still run in degraded mode. >> >>Last test was a RAID10 rebuild, to see if a reboot would load the OS fine. >>It appears it successfully reboots during a rebuild phase. Strange how a >>RAID5 wouldn't boot and a RAID10 would. I'll try RAID5 once more to see if >>I got something amiss. However, I do like the speed of a RAID10.. Maybe >>I'll just keep it. >> >> >>Cassidy >> >>On 10/1/03 3:22 PM, "Simon" wrote: >> >>> >>> Why are you rebooting in a middle of a rebuild? I didn't know this is >>> acceptable. >>> I thought about it, but didn't actually try it. Rebuilds without interruption >>> work fine >>> with my 7500-8 controller with 8 IBM drives in RAID5 running 5.1-R >>> >>> -Simon >> >> > > >_______________________________________________ >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" >