From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 3 16:51:21 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C808D16A41B for ; Thu, 3 Jan 2008 16:51:21 +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 51FC413C4E9 for ; Thu, 3 Jan 2008 16:51:21 +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 m03GDCpv062396; Thu, 3 Jan 2008 09:13:12 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Message-ID: <477D0998.9050407@samsco.org> Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2008 09:13:12 -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: Gore Jarold References: <370651.79772.qm@web63012.mail.re1.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <370651.79772.qm@web63012.mail.re1.yahoo.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]); Thu, 03 Jan 2008 09:13:13 -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: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: moving slots with a 3ware raid controller ... danger ? 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: Thu, 03 Jan 2008 16:51:21 -0000 Gore Jarold wrote: > I am running a 3ware 9650SE-16ML on FreeBSD > 6.1-RELEASE. > > I think that the card is in a 4x PCI-E slot, and I > think that is causing my system to crash periodically > under very high IO load. Can't help ya if you don't say what the crash is. > > I am planning on moving the card from the 4X slot to > an 8x slot, which is the speed recommended for it. If this is what 3ware actually recommends, I'd find it highly amusing, not mention highly unlikely that they have a controller that can actually push more that 1GB/sec of disk bandwidth, even if it had 16 disks hooked up to it. > > Before I do this, I would like a sanity check - is > there ANY reason that moving slots with this card > would be dangerous ? Will FreeBSD care that the card > comes in on a new slot ? No > Will the card ? I'd certainly hope not. > The arrays? I'd personally ask my my money back from 3ware if they did. Scott