From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 1 23:36:06 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E37516A4CE for ; Sun, 1 Feb 2004 23:36:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from thunderbird.etv.net (thunderbird.etv.net [208.14.190.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E1DF43D1D for ; Sun, 1 Feb 2004 23:36:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from efinleywork@efinley.com) Received: from [205.161.203.55] (helo=elliotdevelop) by thunderbird.etv.net with smtp (Exim 4.30; FreeBSD) id 1AnYck-000JkK-JT; Mon, 02 Feb 2004 00:36:02 -0700 Message-ID: <000c01c3e95f$358ace40$37cba1cd@emerytelcom.com> From: "Elliot Finley" To: , "Tobias" References: <6.0.1.1.2.20031209160743.023fa910@jolt.nu> <0dc101c3e47a$3f6e6b90$37cba1cd@emerytelcom.com> <6.0.1.1.2.20040131153130.02631640@jolt.nu> Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 00:35:51 -0700 Organization: Emery Telcom MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Subject: Re: Problem with large amounts of IDE drives X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Elliot Finley List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 07:36:06 -0000 Sorry, I meant to say SATA not IDE. We are using SATA drives. Elliot ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tobias" To: Cc: "Elliot Finley" Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2004 7:40 AM Subject: Re: Problem with large amounts of IDE drives > So you have "old" ata drives connected to an adapter to the sata controller > then? > We've currently finished by using another computer and nfs mount it. Alltho > this is not a way I really like. > > Atleast it's stable now with about 500-800gig/day in io so it works. > The thought of being able to connect 24 drives to a single 3ware 12-port > sata controller is inviting... > > At 03:06 2004-01-27, you wrote: > >If you end up switching controllers, you should consider 3ware. I'm > >currently running 17 IDE drives in one of my systems. I'm running the first > >off the motherboard and the remaining 16 off the 3ware 8-port SATA > >controllers. > > > >Elliot > > > > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "Tobias" > >To: > >Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 8:30 AM > >Subject: Problem with large amounts of IDE drives > > > > > > > Has anyone except me had trouble (or success) running 16 or more IDE > >drives > > > on 4.8-RELEASE? > > > > > > Currently we run perf on 14 drives, 2 connected to motherboard ide and 12 > > > connected to 2 HighPoint Tech RocketRaid 454. The 454 has no native driver > > > for freebsd as of yet and we are told by hpt to run it using the 404's > >driver. > > > > > > We ran perf with 18 drives about one week ago, and after we mounted the > > > last 4 (raided that is) it worked fine for like half an hour or maybe a > > > whole hour then it locked the mount point. It's not reported in any logs > > > and the hpt374.status sysctl that is set reports no trouble neither. I'm > > > thinking that it might be a driver problem but I don't see why it ONLY > > > occurs when we have the raid mounted... never if we have 1 or 2 out of 3 > > > mounted. But as soon as all drives are mounted. > > > Oh yeah, it doesn't matter which raid we mount as the last... it's always > > > the LAST one mounted that f00bars... > > > > > > The computer has a 550W PSU so power should not really be a problem. Nor > > > does it have any i/o to talk about... I'd say in a given day it reads > >about > > > 50gig and writes about 10-30gig. > > > Any clues? :o) > > > > > > dmesg follows for perf > > > Copyright (c) 1992-2003 The FreeBSD Project. > > > Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 > > > The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. > > > FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE #1: Sat Dec 6 12:32:45 GMT 2003 > > > c4@perf:/usr/src/sys/compile/perf > > > Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz > > > CPU: Intel Pentium III (863.87-MHz 686-class CPU) > > > Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x68a Stepping = 10 > > > > >Features=0x383f9ff >PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE> > > > real memory = 535560192 (523008K bytes) > > > avail memory = 515723264 (503636K bytes) > > > Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc053c000. > > > Preloaded elf module "hpt374.ko" at 0xc053c09c. > > > Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled > > > md0: Malloc disk > > > Using $PIR table, 12 entries at 0xc00f2c00 > > > npx0: on motherboard > > > npx0: INT 16 interface > > > pcib0: on motherboard > > > pci0: on pcib0 > > > agp0: mem > > > 0xffa80000-0xffafffff,0xf8000000-0xfbffffff irq 11 at device 2.0 on pci0 > > > pcib1: at device 30.0 on pci0 > > > pci1: on pcib1 > > > hpt3740: port > > > 0xde00-0xdeff,0xdf54-0xdf57,0xdf58-0xdf5f,0xdf7c-0xdf7f,0xdf60-0xdf67 irq > >9 > > > at device 9.0 on pci1 > > > hpt3741: port > > > 0xd000-0xd0ff,0xdf80-0xdf83,0xdf68-0xdf6f,0xdf84-0xdf87,0xdf88-0xdf8f irq > >9 > > > at device 9.1 on pci1 > > > xl0: <3Com 3c905B-TX Fast Etherlink XL> port 0xdc00-0xdc7f mem > > > 0xff8dfc00-0xff8dfc7f irq 10 at device 11.0 on pci1 > > > xl0: Ethernet address: 00:10:5a:a5:0a:fc > > > miibus0: on xl0 > > > xlphy0: <3Com internal media interface> on miibus0 > > > xlphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto > > > hpt3742: port > > > 0xd400-0xd4ff,0xdf98-0xdf9b,0xdf90-0xdf97,0xdf9c-0xdf9f,0xdfa0-0xdfa7 irq > >9 > > > at device 13.0 on pci1 > > > hpt3743: port > > > 0xd800-0xd8ff,0xdfe0-0xdfe3,0xdfa8-0xdfaf,0xdfe4-0xdfe7,0xdff0-0xdff7 irq > >9 > > > at device 13.1 on pci1 > > > isab0: at device 31.0 on pci0 > > > isa0: on isab0 > > > atapci0: port 0xffa0-0xffaf at device 31.1 > > > on pci0 > > > ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 > > > ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0 > > > uhci0: port 0xef40-0xef5f > > > irq 7 at device 31.2 on pci0 > > > usb0: on uhci0 > > > usb0: USB revision 1.0 > > > uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 > > > uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered > > > pci0: (vendor=0x8086, dev=0x2443) at 31.3 irq 3 > > > uhci1: port 0xef80-0xef9f > > > irq 10 at device 31.4 on pci0 > > > usb1: on uhci1 > > > usb1: USB revision 1.0 > > > uhub1: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 > > > uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered > > > orm0: