From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 7 01:35:28 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49CBF16A4CE for ; Wed, 7 Jul 2004 01:35:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: from carver.gumbysoft.com (carver.gumbysoft.com [66.220.23.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3952F43D1D for ; Wed, 7 Jul 2004 01:35:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dwhite@gumbysoft.com) Received: by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2F4E872DF2; Tue, 6 Jul 2004 18:35:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D50772DB5; Tue, 6 Jul 2004 18:35:27 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 18:35:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Charles Sprickman In-Reply-To: <20040706192152.D6269@shell.inch.com> Message-ID: <20040706183439.R24627@carver.gumbysoft.com> References: <40CD80F1.6020107@mintel.com> <20040706192152.D6269@shell.inch.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: Jason Thomson cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3ware 7506, FreeBSD 4.x, Maxtor Disks & SMART Problems. X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 01:35:28 -0000 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