From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Nov 14 14:12:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from moya.lambermont.dyndns.org (e165253.upc-e.chello.nl [213.93.165.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DC6237B418 for ; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 14:12:31 -0800 (PST) Received: by moya.lambermont.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 495A036415; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 23:12:30 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 23:12:30 +0100 To: "Arthur W. Neilson III" Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DELL 2550 boxen Message-ID: <20011114231230.A22098@moya.lambermont.dyndns.org> References: <200111140948340450.386219BA@smtp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200111140948340450.386219BA@smtp>; from art@pilikia.net on Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 09:48:34AM -1000 From: hans@lambermont.dyndns.org (H) Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Arthur W. Neilson III wrote: > We are looking at purchasing some DELL 2550 2U rackmount servers, > anyone using these puppies in a production environment with FreeBSD > 4.4 STABLE? Not quite -STABLE, but still interesting I hope: we run a PowerEdge 2550 with 4.4-RC4. Not under heavy load yet, and (thus ? ;-) no production problems yet. But read on. > Searched thru the mailing list archives and saw that some folks had a > bit of trouble with 4.3 recognising the PERC controller. It was recognized without problems : aac0: mem 0xf0000000-0xf7ffffff irq 2 at device 2.1 on pci2 aac0: i960RX 100MHz, 126MB total memory, optional battery present (3) aac0: Kernel 2.5-0, S/N fafaf001379810d2 aacd0: on aac0 When we unplug a drive, the system nicely starts complaining. But when we reinsert the drive the whole thing (=filesystem access) hangs :( We found out that we needed to reboot the system before reinserting the drive. Raid rebuilding then works correctly. You might want to check how this works for you. groetjes, Hans Lambermont -- http://lambermont.webhop.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message