Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 14:11:58 -0400 From: Chris Johnson <cjohnson@palomine.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: DPT RAID-5 -- newfs during sysinstall is hanging Message-ID: <19980903141158.A3904@palomine.net>
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I have a simple RAID-5 setup consisting of three Barracuda drives connected to a DPT PM3334UW RAID controller (firmware version 07L0). Using the DOS-based tools, I successfully built the RAID, specifying "other" as the operating system (as per a message posted by Simon Shapiro, the author of the DPT drivers). Everything appears normal at this point. I then boot with the FreeBSD 2.2.7 boot floppy and do the visual configuration thing. The RAID "drive" is picked up by dpt0, and the reported size is correct. The rest of the installation -- partitioning, labelling, etc. -- proceeds normally. I select "Commit" to get the ball rolling, and this is where things stop going so well. newfs runs successfully on sd0s1a. Then on either sd0s1e or sd0s1f newfs hangs. By "hangs" I mean that the message "Doing newfs -b 8192 -f 1024 /mnt/dev/rsd0s1f" remains on the screen forever (I tried letting it run for twelve hours), and the only disk activity is what sounds like a short disk access every second or so. On the second virtual console is a long list of numbers, separated by commas. I've done the above a half dozen times, and the last number that appears is always 13828128, if that means anything. I don't know where to proceed from here. This same RAID setup has been running successfully with NT for the last year or so, so I'm reasonably sure that the hardware is okay (though I guess you never know). Would I have better luck posting this on freebsd-scsi? I'd considered it, but the list charter seems to indicate that the list is for SCSI developers rather than for people having SCSI problems. Thanks in advance for any help. Chris Johnson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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