From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 26 19:54:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from franklin.appliedtheory.com (franklin.appliedtheory.com [204.168.16.151]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27DC237B419; Wed, 26 Sep 2001 19:54:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from there (blank.appliedtheory.com [204.168.94.45]) by franklin.appliedtheory.com (ATHY Internal Build/0.0.0) with SMTP id f8R2slb00443; Wed, 26 Sep 2001 22:54:47 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200109270254.f8R2slb00443@franklin.appliedtheory.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Jason Zawacki Reply-To: jzawacki@appliedtheory.com Organization: AppliedTheory Corporation To: Greg Lehey Subject: Re: vinum IDE RAID5 troubles Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 22:55:41 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <200109251846.f8PIk3b11289@franklin.appliedtheory.com> <20010927101533.A3482@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20010927101533.A3482@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday 26 September 2001 20:45, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Tuesday, 25 September 2001 at 14:46:58 -0400, Jason Zawacki wrote: > > > The 7 drives are connected to various headers on the Promise cards > > (ie, none are connected to the HPT Headers on the motherboard, since > > I've had about a billion problems with it, even with the latest HPT > > BIOS (1.28)). > > > > Now, the problems I've been happen after successfully getting the > > RAID5 volume up and running (setting up the volume, initting it, and > > newfsing it). Under heavy I/O (when xferring a 4GB file over at > > about 2MB/s) it gets about halfway through the xfer, and then one of > > the controllers will time out and jump down to PIO mode, and then > > the rest follow. After this happens, at a random time after, the > > box freezes up resulting in huge data corruption on the volume. > > Also, one of the drives always goes stale, requiring me to start it > > again which sometimes results in a freeze after a while. > > You need to specify more details here. How do you get the components > accessible again? I ended up giving it a resetconfig, then redoing the volume from scratch. This ended up resulting in the same problems, however. > > > I guess my question is, with all the problems I've had with the BP6 > > board, and assuming I've exhausted all my options (I have spent a > > significant amount of time trying to get this to work), is there a > > better hardware combo to do this with? If so, I'll relegate the bp6 > > to 5.0-current testing =) > > Well, of course you haven't exhausted your options. You haven't even > started. How about supplying the information I ask for at > http://www.vinumvm.org/vinum/how-to-debug.html? > Will do - I wasn't looking at this as a problem with vinum, since it was the ata driver that kept timing out. vinum looked to be running just fine =) > Having said this, we've seen a number of reports of problems in this > area, and it's possible that yours is the same. It appears to be > related to the IDE driver. > This is my thinking as well. > Greg Jason To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message