From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jun 5 21:32:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ns2.wsg.net (ns2.wsg.net [206.97.122.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8B99514D0A for ; Sat, 5 Jun 1999 21:29:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gilem@wsg.net) Received: (qmail 15050 invoked from network); 6 Jun 1999 04:26:43 -0000 Received: from mike.wsg.net (HELO trouble) (206.97.122.31) by ned.wsg.net with SMTP; 6 Jun 1999 04:26:43 -0000 Message-Id: <4.2.0.56.19990606001442.01cfd590@ns2.wsg.net> X-Sender: mikemail@ns2.wsg.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.56 (Beta) Date: Sun, 06 Jun 1999 00:18:12 -0400 To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Michael R. Gile" Subject: Re: [HELP!] Crashing FreeBSD server with file system corruption In-Reply-To: References: <19990605202609.A46300@lunatic.oneinsane.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 11:27 PM 6/5/99 -0500, Alfred Perlstein wrote: >On Sat, 5 Jun 1999, Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson wrote: > > > On Sat, Jun 05, 1999 at 10:58:07AM -0700, Michael A. Alderete wrote: > > > > > > * The disk subsystem is a SCSI RAID controller from > > > DPT. It's a PCI card and has 4 drives attached, > > > configured in a RAID 5 with one drive as a hot > > > standby. > > > > > One possibility could be the DPT. You might want to try a SCSI to SCSI > > raid solution. Reason why I say this is because a close friend of mine > > was seeing the same thing with there DPT's moved over to an infortrend > > scsi-scsi solution and the filesystem corruption went away. > >We tried for a month to get a DPT controller working with FreeBSD, >and failed, we tried: > >1) new card >2) new drives >3) new motherboard >4) new cables >5) crying >6) praying >... WOW, that surprises me. We have been running DPT with FreeBSD 2.2 since the drivers have been released (as well as Linux and ::ducking:: NT), and they have been rock solid. Out our curiosity, What models of the controllers are you using? Are you using DPT ECC or standard parity RAM? What version of FreeBSD? ====================================================== Michael Gile gilem@wsg.net President (518)435-0682 Web Services Group http://www.wsg.net/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message