From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 31 12:29:46 2003 Return-Path: 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 B9D3B37B401 for ; Thu, 31 Jul 2003 12:29:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx0.dmpriest.net.uk (mx0.dmpriest.net.uk [62.13.128.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C34743FCB for ; Thu, 31 Jul 2003 12:29:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Received: from Study.tdx.com (adsl-blk-2-62-13-130-232.dmpriest.net.uk [62.13.130.232]) by mx0.dmpriest.net.uk (8.11.6/8.11.6/Kp) with ESMTP id h6VJRSd30366; Thu, 31 Jul 2003 20:27:28 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 20:30:10 +0100 From: Karl Pielorz To: "Kung Foo Ham[p]?ster" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <621704423.1059683410@Study.tdx.com> In-Reply-To: <1059678246.3f296826395a3@tools.kungfoohampster.com> References: <5.2.0.9.2.20030717161329.0359c490@mail.speakeasy.net> <1059678246.3f296826395a3@tools.kungfoohampster.com> X-Mailer: Mulberry/3.0.3 (Win32) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Re: Adaptec 2400A update X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 19:29:47 -0000 --On 31 July 2003 14:04 -0500 "Kung Foo Ham[p]?ster" wrote: > I also have an Adaptec 2400A RAID controller and have problems when my > system seems to be having a lot of random hard disk accesses. Hi, We have a 2400A in a heavily loaded 'backup' machine at the office (i.e. lots of large IDE drives, storing backups from all the other machines until they're spooled to tape) - it's often gzip'ing and storing the data from several machines simultaneously, all across a 100Mbit LAN. We've never [touch wood] had any problems with it so far... > For a while I've thought that it could be my system over heating. But > when my machine overheats it just powers off abruptly. I'd be a bit concerned if any machine I'd been using, ever actually had to shut itself down for thermal reasons [unless it was, actually faulty]. Remember - weird things can happen before it gets to the 'critical' level set by the motherboard [unless it's been set really, really pessimistically in the BIOS]. > I have been searching the groups and mail archives for almost a year now. > I can only find posts with similar problems but no resolution. Your > post appears to be closer to my problems than others. There seems to be > a small handful of ppl who have mentioned this problem. I'll agree - I don't particularly like the 2400A - we have a bunch of 3ware controllers as well, which seem better supported in FreeBSD, and 3ware themselves seem to be more open-source/OS friendly, but we've never had any real problems with the 2400A. > if you managed to read through my ramblings. Thanks! I hope more people > will come out and discuss more about the 2400A. Even those of you who > have stable systems! I would definitley like to know what kind of > hardware and software specs you have. (especially if FreeBSD-5.0 works > better with this card due to UFS2 or device drivers or what not.. i > really have no idea) The hardware we have it on here is a lowly ASUS K7VML, running FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE w/784Mb of RAM. The CPU is an AMD Athlon 2000. I can post you it's dmesg output off list if that might be remotely helpful - but just to let you know, there is at least the odd 2400A based system out there running under heavy load :) Regards, -Karl