From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 2 18:13:02 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59E2916A418; Wed, 2 Jan 2008 18:13:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from pooker.samsco.org (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CEA713C442; Wed, 2 Jan 2008 18:13:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from phobos.samsco.home (phobos.samsco.home [192.168.254.11]) (authenticated bits=0) by pooker.samsco.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m02ICqO4055993; Wed, 2 Jan 2008 11:12:52 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Message-ID: <477BD424.8010709@samsco.org> Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2008 11:12:52 -0700 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071128 SeaMonkey/1.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ed Maste References: <20080102034228.M16861@mindcrime.int.bit0.com> <47A2B2D0-5C67-46A1-BD52-76667C68298F@khera.org> <20080102174518.GA1755@sandvine.com> In-Reply-To: <20080102174518.GA1755@sandvine.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH authentication, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]); Wed, 02 Jan 2008 11:12:52 -0700 (MST) X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=5.4 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=failed version=3.1.8 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.8 (2007-02-13) on pooker.samsco.org Cc: Vivek Khera , FreeBSD Stable List Subject: Re: aac tool regressions on 7.0-RC1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2008 18:13:02 -0000 Ed Maste wrote: > On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 10:19:15AM -0500, Vivek Khera wrote: > >> On Jan 2, 2008, at 3:54 AM, Mike Andrews wrote: >> >>> Command Error: >> the current AFAAPI.DLL.> >> In my experience, this was caused by the firmware rev of the adaptec >> card. Basically, the combination of FreeBSD, amd64, and Adaptec RAID >> cards is a bad thing for production systems, and IMO should be avoided. > > In this case it's caused by driver changes obtained from Adaptec's > vendor driver. The original poster found that it broke at a specific > time which suggested some specific changes that could be at fault. > > Aaccli doesn't support Adaptec's latest cards, isn't maintained by them > any longer, and should be deprecated. Arcconf is the tool that will be > supported now, although it does show the behaviour mentioned (hanging > after producing the desired output). Adaptec is aware of the issue but > I don't have any information on a fix. > I assume that the use of the newcomm interface by the driver is what triggers the failure of the application. > I'm not aware of any reason to avoid Adaptec RAID cards specifically on > amd64 now; there were a number of problems in the past but they should > be addressed now. The driver has been very solid on 64-bit platforms for many, many years. It was one of the first drivers to support PAE and amd64. However, the application support for the hardware has been more tricky than on i386, and application support is vital these days. Scott