From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 2 15:37:06 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4FC916A4CE for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 15:37:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: from server2.troikatek.com (server2.troikatek.com [66.135.32.168]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5855143D3F for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 15:37:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from aheyn@jmsent.com) Received: (qmail 5116 invoked from network); 2 Feb 2005 16:31:27 -0000 Received: from ns.jmsent.com (HELO AREILLPC) (66.9.27.146) by server2.troikatek.com with SMTP; 2 Feb 2005 16:31:27 -0000 From: "Andrew Heyn" To: "Matthew N. Dodd" Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 10:37:30 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <20050202020923.H76517@sasami.jurai.net> cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Compaq Smart Array 4200 controller question X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 15:37:07 -0000 Hi Matthew, One of the drives reported an imminent failure a while ago, and I replaced the to-fail drive. I then saw the online light blinking. After many hours of this, it went solid on, and the problems are still happening. I can only assume that the array finished rebuilding. Even when rebooting, the raid controller doesn't make any (more) mention of rebuilding array. It used to when the light was blinking. This problem happens even with just one drive, and the errors aren't harmless, because the system will just hang and stop responding, sometimes the system doesn't recover and has to be power cycled. I was going to use that program given to me, but untarring the kernel source tree would cause programs to hang indefinitely on biord...and then I wouldnt be able to get it done. In the mean time, I will try doing this to a memory device, instead of on disk. Does anybody have experience using non-"compaq certified" hard drives with this controller? Thanks, Andrew -----Original Message----- From: Matthew N. Dodd [mailto:mdodd@FreeBSD.ORG] Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 11:10 PM To: Andrew Heyn Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Compaq Smart Array 4200 controller question On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Andrew Heyn wrote: > I have just installed FreeBSD 5.3 on a Compaq Proliant 8500 system. > I noticed I get a lot of these errors: > > ida0: soft read error > ida0: soft write error I'm betting your array is still rebuilding. Try out ftp://ftp.jurai.net/users/winter/idacontrol.tar to see what the array status is. Soft errors are harmless and the messages informing you of them should probably be rate-limited. -- 10 40 80 C0 00 FF FF FF FF C0 00 00 00 00 10 AA AA 03 00 00 00 08 00