From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 23 10:13:37 2005 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 E05D316A41F for ; Fri, 23 Dec 2005 10:13:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from drench@gmail.com) Received: from xproxy.gmail.com (xproxy.gmail.com [66.249.82.203]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EC7C43D4C for ; Fri, 23 Dec 2005 10:13:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from drench@gmail.com) Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id s9so417922wxc for ; Fri, 23 Dec 2005 02:13:36 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=SXOLUGCl2CiaZ4P+LV52GejC9KcbVXw2/QU1UFBXPnzxwthmFuS5RdK/YR9AanIrH5d463NfqCj1DWLYWpvAG2xrh9hqeVhrFdxOE/2Ey+1x549USSWd5Q2B7lw/DN3lsixFQJnrcYe1c9sASPBhca44Vi6XtEXGvUb5BT4dR3o= Received: by 10.70.123.12 with SMTP id v12mr3122278wxc; Fri, 23 Dec 2005 02:13:36 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.70.125.1 with HTTP; Fri, 23 Dec 2005 02:13:36 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 04:13:36 -0600 From: Daniel Rench To: Georg Auernhammer In-Reply-To: <20051222122323.GA32562@bera.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <20051222122323.GA32562@bera.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: amd64 + RAID freezing system 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: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 10:13:38 -0000 On 12/22/05, Georg Auernhammer wrote: > Hello! > > i have an amd64 with Sata 80Gig Hardisk and extra RAID: > [...] > newfs and mounting ar0 works. > but as sonn as i am trying to write data on the RAID, the system > freezes. > i had some problems writing the label to ar0s1d > but after some reboots he managed to write the label on ar0. > only thing is, i cant write data... > > Any suggestions? I just dealt with a situation that sounds similar. I have an x86 box with a Promise SATA card with 2 drives in a RAID1 that had been running fairly well for several months. Then it suddenly froze up (no reboot, nothing written to the console). After a power cycle the system froze during fsck. In single user mode I was able to get it mounted readonly without fsck, and could read some files, but before too long it would freeze again. I pulled one of the drives and rebooted. Same behavior. Then I pulled that drive and put the other one back. Fsck completed and it now works fine (aside from no mirroring going on anymore of course). Short version: though it sure seems like one of the drives had gone bad, the Promise card didn't notice. It may say the array is "READY" you shouldn't trust it.