From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 26 15:36:54 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6280E16A4DD for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 15:36:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@hub.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [200.46.204.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7379543D78 for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 15:36:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@hub.org) Received: from localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F52E291B06; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 12:36:41 -0300 (ADT) Received: from hub.org ([200.46.204.220]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 89309-06; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 12:36:41 -0300 (ADT) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (blk-224-179-167.eastlink.ca [24.224.179.167]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44742291B05; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 12:36:40 -0300 (ADT) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1027) id 04E304AA69; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 12:36:38 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03BC24AA26; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 12:36:38 -0300 (ADT) Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 12:36:37 -0300 (ADT) From: User Freebsd To: Philippe Lang In-Reply-To: <6C0CF58A187DA5479245E0830AF84F421D0F83@poweredge.attiksystem.ch> Message-ID: <20060726123544.X17979@ganymede.hub.org> References: <6C0CF58A187DA5479245E0830AF84F421D0F83@poweredge.attiksystem.ch> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 15:36:54 -0000 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