From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 6 04:05:12 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0780106566C for ; Thu, 6 Oct 2011 04:05:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from qmta09.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta09.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.30.96]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A83D48FC14 for ; Thu, 6 Oct 2011 04:05:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta15.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.71]) by qmta09.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id hC6W1h0081Y3wxoA9G55vp; Thu, 06 Oct 2011 04:05:05 +0000 Received: from koitsu.dyndns.org ([67.180.84.87]) by omta15.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id hG8l1h00C1t3BNj8bG8lao; Thu, 06 Oct 2011 04:08:45 +0000 Received: by icarus.home.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A3730102C1C; Wed, 5 Oct 2011 21:05:11 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2011 21:05:11 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Dennis Glatting Message-ID: <20111006040511.GA54920@icarus.home.lan> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Odd incident with ZFS and an Aerca 1880i X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2011 04:05:12 -0000 On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 08:37:20PM -0600, Dennis Glatting wrote: > I have a Aerca 1880i plugged into a Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD7 running > RELENG_8 with a 10 2TB RAIDz pool with a OCZ Revo L2Arc and a SSD > ZIL, among other volumes. The last scrub indicated there was an > error with the pool and today I finally got around to cleaning > things up. > > During the scrub I initiated today, a running "zpool status" > displayed a message that said I should clear the pool, which I did, > while the scrub was running, which probably wasn't such a good idea. > The result was my disks through the Aerca disappeared. On a power > switch reboot the Aerca no longer displayed its boot-time messages > and it appears the Aerca's firmware is kaput. > > Specifically, during the boot sequence the following: > > "arcmsr0: timed out waiting for firmware ready" > "arcmsr0: wait 'get adapter firmware miscellaneous data' timeout" 1) The controller brand/vendor is Areca, not Aerca. (This isn't just a typo, you said it 3 times in your mail (including Subject). :-) ) 2) The arcmsr(4) man page does not mention the 1880i controller being supported. Readers should note this controller is ***super*** new. It's a SATA600/SAS controller with PCIe 2.0: http://www.areca.com.tw/products/1880.htm My point:I am not surprised this is not working in RELENG_8. This controller, again, is **very** new on the market. 3) Areca provides FreeBSD support natively. You should absolutely Email them and bring the problem up with them via a support ticket. They have a good track record when it comes to support for FreeBSD in general. You are absolutely going to need to mail them for such a new controller. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, US | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP 4BD6C0CB |