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Date:      Sat, 5 Jun 1999 22:00:04 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Tom <tom@uniserve.com>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net>
Cc:        Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson <insane@lunatic.oneinsane.net>, michael@alderete.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: [HELP!] Crashing FreeBSD server with file system corruption
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9906052157160.7966-100000@shell.uniserve.ca>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990605232449.9491Y-100000@cygnus.rush.net>

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On Sat, 5 Jun 1999, 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 <sp?>
> > 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
> ...
> 
> Well I really don't want to talk about things past "6"

  Well, I have a 24x7 production with 300+ days of uptime and a DPT
PM334UW card.

> -Alfred

Tom



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