From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 9 09:35:20 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA4D416A4CE for ; Sat, 9 Apr 2005 09:35:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.192.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0220843D39 for ; Sat, 9 Apr 2005 09:35:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from tedwin2k (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.197.130]) j399ZMb26959; Sat, 9 Apr 2005 02:35:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Andrew Heyn" , Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2005 02:35:02 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-reply-to: X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1478 Importance: Normal Subject: RE: Compaq Proliant 8500 issue with Integrated SMART Array RAIDController (ida) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2005 09:35:20 -0000 owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org wrote: > Hi, > > I have a Compaq Proliant 8500 with the integrated SMART Array RAID > controller. I recall seeing "Symbios" and "ARM" on a chip on the > center of the PCI module > must be the > RAID controller. I > used to have extreme problems even getting the system to boot > up until I > used the SmartStart > CD and disabled the "Array Accelerator" for my one and only RAID1+0 > Container. (Before doing this) I would get numerous > ida0: soft write error and if the system did manage to boot > up, a process > might read the disk, and > forever be stuck in some kernel routine between userland and > the disk that > gets a block or whatever. > Now, I only get an occasional "ida0: soft read/write error" which > occasionally causes a 15 or so second delay. The "Array > Accelerator" for > the Integrated SMART array controller is 8MB of read-only cache. > Other SMART Array models like the 4200 have battery backed up cache > that can be user-separated between write and read cache. > > I'm wondering if anybody has ever seen the problem mentioned above. > > I would hate to have to replace the whole > PCI module because of some bad controller ram since that darn thing is > integrated, and would make useless the > internal bays if another raid card was added. As a note, the contacts > between the hard drive and the drive module > have been cleaned out multiple times for all the drives in the > array. The > connection between the drive module and > the back of the computer is sturdy and clean. There are only > TWO cables in > this entire system that I know of, and one > is for the IDE CDROM, and one is for the floppy. So, cabling > cannot be a > problem. I also have two working PSUs that > each have a 120V line going into it, so I doubt it's a lack of > power. Even > though 220V is recommended for both of them, > it works fine with even just one 120V line. > > I asked the HP/Compaq forum and they weren't able to give me > much more of an > answer than "check the cabling" and "blow > off the dust" which I found extremely irritating because the > data is carried > on copper wires that resemble the pins found > on an IDE hard drive or floppy, not your standard "cabling." I might > ultimately be wrong...but I doubt it. > You should ask Windows questions in a Windows forum. Oh, you aren't running Windows on this system? Must be FreeBSD 2.2 then, right? Ted