From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 27 0:14:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sydney.worldwide.lemis.com (m156.auug2001.auug.org.au [203.11.221.156]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D391F37B41E for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 00:14:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by sydney.worldwide.lemis.com (8.11.6/8.9.3) id f8R0jY403590; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 10:15:34 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 10:15:33 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Jason Zawacki Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: vinum IDE RAID5 troubles Message-ID: <20010927101533.A3482@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> References: <200109251846.f8PIk3b11289@franklin.appliedtheory.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200109251846.f8PIk3b11289@franklin.appliedtheory.com>; from jzawacki@appliedtheory.com on Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 02:46:58PM -0400 Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF 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 Tuesday, 25 September 2001 at 14:46:58 -0400, Jason Zawacki wrote: > Hello, > > I'm having big problems trying to get RAID5 to work under vinum. I'm not > sure what the problem is. Here is my setup: > > - Abit BP6 motherboard with 2x400Mhz celerons > - 512MB of RAM > - One Adaptec 2940 SCSI card with a 9 GB drive and a CDROM attached > - Two Promise ATA/100 Cards (Fastrack/100LP and Ultra/100TX2) > - 7 60 GB Maxtor drives (brand new) > - FreeBSD 4.4-Stable (cvsup'd about 2 weeks ago) This is pretty much the same configuration as my Vinum development machine, except that I suspect that you're using IDE drives. > 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 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? 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. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message