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Date:      Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:10:48 +0100
From:      Greg Byshenk <gbyshenk@byshenk.net>
To:        Rink Springer <rink@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Problem with Adaptec 29320LPE
Message-ID:  <20081124121048.GB4609@core.byshenk.net>
In-Reply-To: <20081124114912.GA28709@rink.nu>
References:  <20081124114248.GA4609@core.byshenk.net> <20081124114912.GA28709@rink.nu>

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On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 12:49:12PM +0100, Rink Springer wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 12:42:49PM +0100, Greg Byshenk wrote:
> > backuphost# camcontrol devlist
> > <SONY LIB-162 0208>                at scbus0 target 0 lun 0 (pass0,ch3)
> > <SONY SDX-1100 0102>               at scbus0 target 1 lun 0 (sa3,pass1)
> > <SONY LIB-162 0203>                at scbus0 target 2 lun 0 (pass2,ch4)
> > <SONY SDX-900V 0102>               at scbus0 target 3 lun 0 (sa4,pass3)
> > <AMCC 9650SE-16M DISK 3.06>        at scbus1 target 0 lun 0 (da0,pass4)
> > <AMCC 9650SE-16M DISK 3.06>        at scbus1 target 0 lun 1 (da1,pass5)

> Are these volumes perhaps >2TB ? If so, it won't work...  we stumbled on
> this at work a few weeks ago, and once we resized the volumes so that'd
> all be <2TB, the controller worked fine...
> 
> As far as I know, this is the only workaround - I couldn't see relevant
> patches in Open/NetBSD either that might have fixed this issue :-(
 
The volume da1 is indeed >2TB, but it is not connected to the controller;
it (along with da0) is actually a RAID-10 array connected to a 3Ware/AMCC 
SATA controller.  The Adaptec contoller is used only for the tape drives
(the SDX-900V is AIT4; the SDX-1100 is AIT5), and they are <2TB.

-- 
greg byshenk  -  gbyshenk@byshenk.net  -  Leiden, NL



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