Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 18:35:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> To: Charles Sprickman <spork@inch.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3ware 7506, FreeBSD 4.x, Maxtor Disks & SMART Problems. Message-ID: <20040706183439.R24627@carver.gumbysoft.com> In-Reply-To: <20040706192152.D6269@shell.inch.com> References: <40CD80F1.6020107@mintel.com> <20040706192152.D6269@shell.inch.com>
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On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, Charles Sprickman wrote: > On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, Jason Thomson wrote: > > > We have a number of FreeBSD boxes with 7506 series 3ware controllers > > (about 10 and about to buy 10 more). We are generally happy with the > > performance and reliability, but we have a few intermittent, recurring > > problems. > > I'm very late to the party (catching up on my -stable mail), but I'm > curious if these problems also occured under 4.8? > > I recently had some issues with a box that has the low-end twe controller. > The big problem was memory, so that was swapped out and all has been well. > I tried going to 4.10 and the box locked up after about 5 minutes of going > into heavy swap. That happened a few more times and then I reverted back > to 4.8 and it's been fine. I do have older Maxtor 40GB drives, FWIW. There was a nasty bug just about as 4.10 went out the door with the twe driver. I thought the fix went into the release, though. If you get a chance you might try moving up to the -stable version of src/sys/dev/twe and see if that fixes your issues in 4.10. -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org
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