From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 18 05:37:49 2004 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 B34BB16A4CE; Wed, 18 Feb 2004 05:37:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [66.92.160.223]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6973D43D1F; Wed, 18 Feb 2004 05:37:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mdodd@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sasami.jurai.net (winter@sasami.jurai.net [66.92.160.223]) by sasami.jurai.net (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i1IDbm7t093876; Wed, 18 Feb 2004 08:37:48 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mdodd@FreeBSD.ORG) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 08:37:48 -0500 (EST) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" X-X-Sender: winter@sasami.jurai.net To: Dima Dorfman In-Reply-To: <20040218085444.GK13673@trit.org> Message-ID: <20040218083404.M87859@sasami.jurai.net> References: <20040115022720.G90982@sasami.jurai.net> <20040218085444.GK13673@trit.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ida(4) driver: Compaq Smart Array users wanted. 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: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 13:37:49 -0000 On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Dima Dorfman wrote: > "show controller" (above) and "show logical" work without a hitch, but > "show physical" displays about 30 lines like this: > > ida0: soft error This isn't a problem; the driver doesn't know that some commands return an error status when they can't operate on the supplied parameters. > I don't have a "failed" drive, but removing and inserting one drive of > a RAID 1 logical drive mostly worked okay. After removing it, the > kernel kept spewing "ida0: soft write error", but these seemed to be > harmless, and inserting the drive back in correctly put the logical > drive in a reviving state. The 'soft write error' is just the controllers way of informing you that its writing to a degraded volume. In an ideal world the driver would trap these soft error messages, rate limit them, and actually look up which drive in the volume was bad and occasionally print an informative error message with that info. -- 10 40 80 C0 00 FF FF FF FF C0 00 00 00 00 10 AA AA 03 00 00 00 08 00