From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 19 14:43:38 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C091816A405 for ; Fri, 19 Jan 2007 14:43:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@qwirky.net) Received: from public.aci.on.ca (aci.on.ca [205.207.148.251]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88C1613C457 for ; Fri, 19 Jan 2007 14:43:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@qwirky.net) Received: from (invalid client hostname: host address literal does not match remote client address)[192.168.15.100] (xtreme-33-61.dyn.aci.on.ca[24.137.192.61] port=1125) by public.aci.on.ca([205.207.148.252] port=25) via TCP with esmtp (2582 bytes) (sender: ) id for ; Fri, 19 Jan 2007 09:43:30 -0500 (EST) (Smail-3.2.0.122-Pre 2005-Nov-17 #1 built 2006-Feb-21) Message-ID: <45B0D996.8070704@qwirky.net> Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 09:45:42 -0500 From: Jeff Royle User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: 6.2 Release - Adaptec 2130SLP driver?? issue - aac driver X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 14:43:38 -0000 I could use some advice on this issue I have had with my raid controller. I am not really running much on the system yet, postfix, Pf + pflogd, rlogind, ssh, bsnmp and ntpd. While I was just reading a file with less the system stopped responding. I thought it was the network interfaces but I was able to ping the interface. Once I plugged a monitor into the system I saw this (roughly): AAC0: COMMAND TIMEOUT AFTER X number of seconds Not good :) Reset of the system resolved the issue and it booted fine. Since the controller stopped responding nothing was recorded to my logs. Now I have to figure out how to prevent that from happening again. Basic run down on the system and some history... P4 3.2Ghz Asus P5MT-S MB 2 x 1GB DDR2 667 memory Adaptec 2130SLP Raid Controller + battery backup module 2 Segate Ultra320 73GB 15k RPM (mirrored) I have run this same system hardware testing 6.2-BETA3, RC-1 and RC-2 without this issue. I was using the driver released by Adaptec while testing the pre-release installs (http://www.adaptec.com/en-US/speed/raid/aac/unix/aacraid_freebsd6_drv_b11518_tgz.htm). You could say I am fairly confidient in the hardware itself. I have put this system through a lot of testing since BETA3. The 6.2 release kernel has not been customized all that much, I just pulled out all the drivers I would never use. To be safe I kept just about all scsi devices/card models still in as I continued my testing of 6.2 release. Right now I am going to try taking out aac and aacp then try the driver I used in my previous tests. However, since I have run a week without this issue it will be hard/impossible tell if this did anything to resolve it...I almost want a crash on the old driver :) So I need some advice... How best do I debug this issue? Thanks in advance for any direction you guys can offer me. Cheers, Jeff