Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:12:59 +0200 From: Sebastiaan van Erk <sebster@sebster.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stable SATA pci card for FreeBSD 6.x/7.0 Message-ID: <489851DB.20406@sebster.com> In-Reply-To: <20080805121632.GA88406@eos.sc1.parodius.com> References: <48982B58.4000406@sebster.com> <20080805121632.GA88406@eos.sc1.parodius.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Hi, Thanks for the reply. Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > Yes, most of the Silicon Image ICs I've read about have odd driver > problems or general issues (even under Windows). The system rebooting > is an odd one; you sure your PSU can handle two disks? Well, I've got a 450W Asus PSU in there, but I've also got 6 hard disks and 1 dvd-rom drive (mostly inactive) in there. The hard disks are mostly 250/300GB but the two new ones are 1TB SATA drives. But the 450W should easily be enough, shouldn't it? >> Does anybody have experience with a (preferably not too expensive) >> 2-port SATA expansion card which does not have any issues running under >> FreeBSD 6.3/7.0? > > Promise makes some consumer-priced cards which work very well under > FreeBSD (sos@ has full documentation on their cards). > > Their RAID controllers (the consumer-level ones) **do not** require that > you use RAID; they support JBOD, and the disks will show up under > FreeBSD as ad(4) devices. (If you choose to use the RAID, you'll still > see the ad(4) disks, but you'll also see an ar(4) device too. This has > the added advantage of you being able to monitor SMART stats on the > disks themselves directly, etc... I'll have a look at that if I can't get this one stable. They're reasonably priced, so if they're good with FreeBSD then that looks like a good option to me. >> [pciconf -lv output] >> atapci0@pci0:10:0: class=0x018000 card=0x35121095 chip=0x35121095 >> rev=0x01 >> hdr=0x00 >> vendor = 'Silicon Image Inc (Was: CMD Technology Inc)' >> device = 'Sil 3512 SATALink/SATARaid Controller' >> class = mass storage >> >> [/var/log/messages before the crash] >> Aug 5 11:16:14 piglet kernel: >> g_vfs_done():mirror/gm1s1e[WRITE(offset=111376236544, length=16384)] error = 6 >> Aug 5 11:16:17 piglet last message repeated 9 times > > Are you sure this is being caused by the controller? Have you checked > SMART statistics on both disks? Assuming error == errno, errno 6 is > "Device not configured". I did look at the smart stats [pasted them below]. What I will try next is just to switch the two 250GB SATA drives on my main board with the two 1TB drives on the controller and see if I still get the problems if I really increase the load on the two 1TB drives. > There's been recent discussion of such messages being caused by the use > of gmirror or gjournal, when the mirror/journal is improperly set up. > (In one users' case, he was receiving similar errors, as well as the > filesystem failing during fsck. Turns out he incorrectly configured > journalling, which nuked the last ~1MB of his UFS filesystem.) > > I'm not saying this is the reason for the messages you see, but it's > something to keep in mind. I'll try reconfigure the geom. I used an online tutorial, but I'm not quite sure that I did everything correctly, though fsck worked alright. I did do this one differently than usual though, usually I use full disk mirror after I already initialized one of the disks, and then I convert it to a mirror by using: sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16 gmirror label -v -b round-robin gm0 /dev/ad0 gmirror insert gm0 /dev/ad2 (Especially useful when you want the entire FreeBSD install to be mirrored). I guess I can try this on the extra disks as well. Regards, Sebastiaan [-- Attachment #2 --] 0 *H 01 0 + 0 *H Q00lS| 6$1-~j0 *H 0b1 0 UZA1%0#U Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd.1,0*U#Thawte Personal Freemail Issuing CA0 080630135157Z 090630135157Z0h10Uvan Erk10U* Sebastiaan10USebastiaan van Erk1"0 *H sebster@sebster.com0"0 *H 0 Va\bEnݚa<M8ʄ^tv>x73bohi2oqS_¶Bm^p* I x"9 pt!j ar#)n)^? 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