From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 20 23:53:49 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65B6316A479 for ; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 23:53:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from user@dhp.com) Received: from shell.dhp.com (shell.dhp.com [199.245.105.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E868B43D49 for ; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 23:53:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from user@dhp.com) Received: by shell.dhp.com (Postfix, from userid 896) id D87543131C; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 19:53:47 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 19:53:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Ensel Sharon To: Steven Hartland In-Reply-To: <009e01c694bf$d777b9d0$b3db87d4@multiplay.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adaptec 2820sa redux, and possible problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 23:53:49 -0000 On Wed, 21 Jun 2006, Steven Hartland wrote: > Out of interest what disks are u using. This sounds very much like > a bug that I ran into with the hpt driver turned out to be that Seagate > 400GB drives dont handle 28-bit command on sector 0xfffffff correctly. > Driver must use a 48-bit command to access that sector. > > Drives from other vendors (Maxtor, WD) don't seem to have this issue. The drives are Hitachi 500 GB 7200 RPM 16meg: HDS725050KLA360 Adaptec told me today that these drives are verified or approved or something with that card... So in your case, you made multiple arrays with those drives, and then large data moves between arrays caused crashes, and it turned out to be the drives fault ? I would think the problem you describe would manifest itself locally to a single array ...