From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 6 16:48:57 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21AE516A420 for ; Mon, 6 Mar 2006 16:48:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from fcash@ocis.net) Received: from smtp.sd73.bc.ca (mailtest.sd73.bc.ca [142.24.13.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9EAA43D48 for ; Mon, 6 Mar 2006 16:48:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from fcash@ocis.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.sd73.bc.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32B088A003B for ; Mon, 6 Mar 2006 08:52:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.sd73.bc.ca ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.sd73.bc.ca [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 74029-02-94 for ; Mon, 6 Mar 2006 08:52:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.0.10] (s10.sbo [192.168.0.10]) by smtp.sd73.bc.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA5EE8A0027 for ; Mon, 6 Mar 2006 08:52:26 -0800 (PST) From: Freddie Cash To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 08:48:47 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <20060303133844.451cb4f7.kgunders@teamcool.net> <200603060807.32455.fcash@ocis.net> <440C6490.3060602@datafarm.de> In-Reply-To: <440C6490.3060602@datafarm.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200603060848.47772.fcash@ocis.net> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at sd73.bc.ca Subject: Re: major pita w/LSI Tyan TA26 combo X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 16:48:57 -0000 On Monday 06 March 2006 08:34 am, you wrote: > Freddie Cash schrieb: > > On Sunday 05 March 2006 08:48 am, Vivek Khera wrote: > >>Interesting... They never said that to me. I have an issue with an > >>external Dell Powervault array that always reports failure of > >>whatever is in position 0 once the array is active. It will format > >>it, etc. without failure. If I swap the channels on the 320-2X card, > >>the error stays with position 0 on the array. If I drop the channel > >>down to U160 from U320, no errors. This leads me to believe that the > >>backplane of the array box is not up to spec for U320. > > Is that connected to a riser card that is connected to the > > motherboard? > > We only have problems when the MegaRAID card is plugged into a riser > > card. When it's plugged directly into the motherboard, it runs > > perfectly. > We used to have problems with adapters running at 66MHz or more > using risercards in a number of Tyan S2707. Those risercards came > from Chenbro, along with the cases. By replacing them with Tyan > risercards (which became available a few months *after* the boards) > those problems vanished. > And now comes the interesting part: Months later, problems began to > reoccur. In the end we found out that the power supplies were of > somewhat low quality. Replacing the power supply helped in every > system that was affected. Interesting. I'll have to mention that to our system builder as something to inverstigate and to watch out for. Although, in our case, replacing the MegaRAID cards with Escalade cards (still plugged into the same riser card) fixed all our issues. -- Freddie Cash fcash@ocis.net