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Date:      Sun, 17 Nov 2002 06:35:07 -0500
From:      "Long, Scott" <Scott_Long@adaptec.com>
To:        "'Miguel Mendez'" <flynn@energyhq.homeip.net>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: Is RAIDframe currently usable?
Message-ID:  <6100BCEB85F8E244959C756C04E0EDD161CB78@otcexc01.otc.adaptec.com>

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> 
> Hi,
> 
> Yesterday I installed a jpsnap (FreeBSD christine.energyhq.tk
> 5.0-CURRENT-20021115-JPSNAP i386), and tried to setup a RAID0 config
> with two disks. raidctl -C goes fine, so does -I and -iv. 
> Then fdisk'ed
> and disklabelled. But when I tried to newfs the newly created 
> partition
> I started getting a bunch of errors like this:

RAIDframe should be considered highly experimental.  While it was
tested extensively under SMP in FreeBSD 4.x, it received very
little testing under SMP in -current.  If you have more details
on this failure, I'd appreciate it.

Scott

> 
> ---
> Nov 16 00:04:59 christine kernel: raid0: node (R  ) returned fail,
> rolling backward
> Nov 16 00:04:59 christine kernel: raid0: DAG failure: r addr 0x40 (64)
> nblk 0x20 (32) buf 0xcdd50ea0
> Nov 16 00:04:59 christine kernel: raid0: node (R  ) returned fail,
> rolling backw byte 76893
> ---
> and so on.
> 
> Anyway, the newfs process finishes, then a simple piped tar 
> to move the
> old /usr to the RAID partition creates a myriad of those 
> messages, to a
> point where the system spends all the time logging those 
> errors and tar
> no longer continues.
> 
> The system is a dual P3 box, running a slightly modified 
> GENERIC (added
> SMP, raidframe and pcm), with INVARIANTS and WITNESS enabled (tried
> without them too, no success).
> 
> So, any known issues with RAIDframe? I can supply more 
> detailed info if
> needed.
> 
> Cheers,
> -- 
>         Miguel Mendez - flynn@energyhq.homeip.net
>         GPG Public Key :: http://energyhq.homeip.net/files/pubkey.txt
>         EnergyHQ :: http://www.energyhq.tk
>         Of course it runs NetBSD!
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