From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 30 19:12:21 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 152A9106566B; Sun, 30 May 2010 19:12:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from technews@giallarhorn.org) Received: from mail.giallarhorn.com (giallarhorn.com [204.109.60.83]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBB718FC13; Sun, 30 May 2010 19:12:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [172.16.1.7] (pool-71-179-162-64.bltmmd.fios.verizon.net [71.179.162.64]) by mail.giallarhorn.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id AAB271144F; Sun, 30 May 2010 15:12:19 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4C02B91A.6000206@giallarhorn.org> Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 15:14:34 -0400 From: technews User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alexander Motin References: <4BFDE813.4090201@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4BFDE813.4090201@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: gmirror panic with SiI 3726 when array is degraded X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 19:12:21 -0000 On 5/26/2010 11:33 PM, Alexander Motin wrote: > technews wrote: > >> So I've started using gmirror recently to mirror 2 1.5 TB drives however >> if I reboot the machine or 'gmirror stop -f data1' while the array is >> been rebuilt I get the panic below. >> Rebooting without geom_mirror loaded does not cause a panic >> Rebooting with geom_mirror loaded and the drives disconnected does not >> cause a panic. >> The drives are in an "Rosewill RSV-S4-X 4 Bay SATA to eSATA (Port >> Multiplier) JBOD / RAID 0, 1, 1+0, 5 Enclosure" connected over a SiI >> 3726 (rev=1706) adapter >> Rebooting with the drives mounted normally does not cause a panic >> I'm using the latest and greatest firmware, the panics occurred before >> the update >> > It would be nice if you build kernel with debugger and got a stack > backtrace to show where problem occurred. > > Also, if you like your port multiplier to work much faster and stable - > I would strongly suggest you to update to 8-STABLE (or wait forthcoming > 8.1-RELEASE, if you prefer releases) and use new siis(4) driver for your > SiI3132 SATA controller. Port Multiplier support in ata(4) driver left > in embryo level and won't be improved. > > Thanks Alexander, I'll update to 8-STABLE and give the siis(4) driver a try. Its not really worth wasting time on something that's not going to be touched any more.