From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 17 09:12:43 2003 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 0F75737B401 for ; Thu, 17 Apr 2003 09:12:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx0.dmpriest.net.uk (mx0.dmpriest.net.uk [62.13.128.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8949143F3F for ; Thu, 17 Apr 2003 09:12:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Received: from cat (kpielorz.dmpriest.net.uk [62.13.130.13]) by mx0.dmpriest.net.uk (8.11.6/8.11.6/Kp) with ESMTP id h3HGA7Y84941; Thu, 17 Apr 2003 17:10:07 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 17:11:52 +0100 From: Karl Pielorz To: Chris McGee , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <12281990.1050599512@cat> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Mulberry/3.0.3 (Win32) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Re: Promise RAID card? 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: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 16:12:43 -0000 --On 17 April 2003 11:53 -0400 Chris McGee wrote: > > Has anyone successfully used the Promise SX6000 card with FreeBSD 4.7? If > so, what kind of configuration are you using? Hmmm... A -hardware question :) I have one in an AMD Athlon 1Ghz system, with a bunch of 80Gb IDE's hanging off it w/128Mb of RAM - using RAID5... It uses the pst driver. Generally seems OK, though theres a couple of us with them that get pst: timeout messages every now and again mostly when under heavy I/O load [and the whole machine hangs until the request is retried]. I'm just moving the machine with the card to 4.8-S but it doesn't look like anything's been committed to the driver that would fix it... Other than the random pauses under load, I've not had any problems with it. The other person with the timeouts reported getting panics as well - but that could be because he had root/swap on it - whereas I just have it as a RAID5 '/usr2' volume. If you do a search of the archives you'll probably find the thread(s) covering it. -Kp