Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 12:36:37 -0300 (ADT) From: User Freebsd <freebsd@hub.org> To: Philippe Lang <philippe.lang@attiksystem.ch> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ? Message-ID: <20060726123544.X17979@ganymede.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <6C0CF58A187DA5479245E0830AF84F421D0F83@poweredge.attiksystem.ch> References: <6C0CF58A187DA5479245E0830AF84F421D0F83@poweredge.attiksystem.ch>
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On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Philippe Lang wrote: > owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org wrote: > >> I've recently been experiencing lock ups with the three >> servers that I've upgraded to 6.x ... one of which is <1 year >> old, the other two are 3 years old ... after getting >> everything setup with DDB, to the point that I could provide >> some very detailed traces, and core dumps, it looks like the >> problem is the one thing common between all three servers: >> the iir driver ... the two older machines are running Intel >> 0CH RAID controllers, the newer one an ICP Vortex card ... >> both were rock solid machines under 4.x ... > > I don't have lockups on my 6.0 server, but I confirm there is something strange with the iir driver. On dmesg.*, I can read > > iir0: Bus B: The SCSI controller successfully recovered from a SCSI BUS issue. The issue may still be present on the BUS. Check cables, termination, termpower, LVDS operation, etc > iir0: SCSI-B, ID 3: MPI returned 0x00000048 > > I have an INTEL SRCU42L raid board. > > Maybe that's REALLY a cable problem I have here? have you tried changing the cable? if so, and it still happens, then its probably not a cable problem ... in my case, three servers and two different controllers all lock up since 6.x and all are running iir drivers ... ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . scrappy@hub.org MSN . scrappy@hub.org Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664
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