Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 00:31:58 +0900 From: Hidetoshi Shimokawa <simokawa@sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp> To: Oliver Hoffmann <oliver.hoffmann@uw-service.de> Cc: freebsd-firewire@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Odd problems with 5.1 RELEASE Message-ID: <87d68ogtg1.wl@tora.nunu.org> In-Reply-To: <200402041530.19751.oliver.hoffmann@uw-service.de> References: <200402041530.19751.oliver.hoffmann@uw-service.de>
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At Wed, 4 Feb 2004 15:30:19 +0100, Oliver Hoffmann wrote: > > Hi all! > > I do backups to external firewire-hds. The fw-controler-card is the Texas > Instruments TSB12LV26. I connected an external 5.25" case (oxford 911) with a > mobilerack inside. In this rack is a160 GB (Maxtor 6Y160PO) harddisk. > It runs FreeBSD 5.1 RELEASE on an Athlon 1500+ with an Abit > motherboard. It has one ICP-Vortex with a raid-system (ca. 200 GB, level 5). > I had a lot of trouble with 4.7 and 4.8 and I couldn't use 5.0 because of the > raid-controler. Thus the time I installed the system 5.1 REL. was probably > the best for my situation. > But this server is not stable (not as stable as I expect from FreeBSD). I'm > not sure whether this has something to do with firewire or not: > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=i386/60919. Does somebody had such > problems in combination with fw? > Another issue are strange sporadic crashes particular at night after or during > the backups. There is nothing to see in the logs or at ttyv0. It just hangs > completely. These crashes occured more often after I connected a second HD > for a monthly backup. > I have a second fileserver (5.1 REL.) with IDE-raid, but the same firewire > hardware (only one fw-HD). It works flawless. Did you test your system's memory? > When I switch off the second fw-disk (/dev/da0) and then try too mount the > first one or start sysinstall those processes will be in the process list for > ever (without doing what I want of course). It is not possible to kill them > until I switch this device on again. I want to remove da0 again, because I > want to check whether this second disk has an influence concerning stability. > But how can I do that? See manpage of sbp(4) and run 'fwcontron -r' several times. > I wonder why the second fw-disk gets the name da0 and the first one da2. I > also wonder why I have to switch of da2 in order to get the system booting. I cannot get your situation.., how do you distinguish the firest and the second? /\ Hidetoshi Shimokawa \/ simokawa@sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp PGP public key: http://www.sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~simokawa/pgp.html
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