From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Mar 18 10:13:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from cage.simianscience.com (cage.simianscience.com [64.7.134.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 863F237B718 for ; Sun, 18 Mar 2001 10:13:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from chimp (fcage [192.168.0.2]) by cage.simianscience.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f2IICtg70268; Sun, 18 Mar 2001 13:12:59 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-Id: <4.2.2.20010318131114.017ec9f0@marble.sentex.net> X-Sender: mdtancsa@marble.sentex.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 13:12:54 -0500 To: rand@meridian-enviro.com From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: 3ware problems Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, bryanh@meridian-enviro.com In-Reply-To: <87g0gb55ef.wl@localhost.meridian-enviro.com> References: <200103180652.f2I6qSU06228@mass.dis.org> <87hf0r60us.wl@localhost.meridian-enviro.com> <200103180652.f2I6qSU06228@mass.dis.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 11:54 AM 3/18/2001 -0600, rand@meridian-enviro.com wrote: > When we bound the array this last time, we took all the defaults: A > 64KB stripe size, disk write cache enabled. It takes a surprisingly > long time to initialize the array. What I did is to boot off the > 4.3 floppies (no cdrom in this system) and go to the slice > (a.k.a. DOS partition) editor and write out the slice > information. This 'write' seems to cause the twe0 driver to > initialize the array, and then I go home to bed. When I wake up it > is done, and then I usually just reboot and restart the > installation. The delay is normal. When you setup anything other than a RAID0 array, the card is actually doing work to your drives in the background. Grab the array manager from http://people.freebsd.org/~msmith/RAID/3ware/3dm-bsd.1.09.00.002.tar.gz and it will notify you when its done. You can also speed up the initialization part a bit by setting it to a faster rebuild time. ---Mike -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Network Administration, mike@sentex.net Sentex Communications www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada www.sentex.net/mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message