From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 27 16:11:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from backmaster.cdsnet.net (backmaster.cdsnet.net [63.163.68.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1C75037B40B for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 16:11:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 83226 invoked by uid 29999); 27 Sep 2001 23:13:49 -0000 Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 16:13:49 -0700 From: Jaye Mathisen To: Greg Lehey Cc: Jason Zawacki , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: vinum IDE RAID5 troubles Message-ID: <20010927161349.B67900@backmaster.cdsnet.net> References: <200109251846.f8PIk3b11289@franklin.appliedtheory.com> <20010927101533.A3482@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20010927101533.A3482@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.20i 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 I had similar problems that you descrivbe using a BP6 in a news servers. vinum/promise, etc. I switched to an INtel L440GB MB, and the issues disappeared. Same RAM, different processors. I think the BP6 has problems under heavy load. I know some people get it to work, but it just flat out didn't for me. SO unfortunately, my only suggestion is to get a different mobo. On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 10:15:33AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message