Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 09:31:12 -0400 From: David Sze <dsze@alumni.uwaterloo.ca> To: Anthony Downer <Anthony.Downer@reuters.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.11-Release IPS device issues Message-ID: <6.2.1.2.2.20050407092323.05dfa160@mail.distrust.net> In-Reply-To: <444747A80F040044A3C2F4F1339C47EB044E07D9@LONSMSXM01.emea.i me.reuters.com> References: <444747A80F040044A3C2F4F1339C47EB044E07D9@LONSMSXM01.emea.ime.reuters.com>
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At 09:13 AM 06/04/2005 +0100, Anthony Downer wrote this to All: >Hello Folks, > >(I am afraid) we are using FreeBSD as the initial boot/hardware/disk >configuration tool for our Standard Windows Server builds. > >We have a bootable CD that identifies hardware, partitions disk zero, >copies the install files over and commences the Windows installation >process. > >This is working fine on a large number of machines/scsi controllers, but >the ServeRAID is causing some issues. >I am attempting to use the 4.11-Release IPS driver on an IBM xSeries 342 >with a ServeRAID 4Lx RAID controller. >(Controller BIOS/Firmware 7.10.18 - Two 18GB drives in a mirrored >formation) > >Whilst we have successfully tested 5.3 with the IPS driver for this >purpose we are getting some odd errors in 4.11 >(At this time it is not possible to migrate to 5.3 for our purposes) > >When copying a large number of files (the i386 folder) using cp from a >mounted CD to a DOS formatted partition on ipsd0 we are getting the >following errors: >---cut here--- >devstat_end_transaction: HELP!! busy_count for ipsd0 is < 0 (-1)! >panic: vwakeup: neg numoutput > >syncing disks... ips0: WARNING: command timeout. Adapter is in toaster >mode, resetting to known state >devstat_end_transaction: HELP!! busy_count for ipsd0 is < 0 (-1)! >ips0: resetting adapter, this may take up to 5 minutes >ips0: syncing config >ips0: ERROR: unable to get a command! can't sync cache! >ips0: adapter clear failed >ips0: AIEE! adapter reset failed, giving up and going home! Have a nice >day. >---cut here--- I get the same panic on an IBM xSeries 346 with a ServeRAID-7k controller (Six 15K RPM 36GB drives, two as RAID1, four as RAID0). The panic occurs at random points while sysinstall is copying distributions. If I do a minimal install, that completes successfully, but then the same panic occurs while building a new kernel. 5.4-RC1 seems to work fine, but I'm in the same boat as you; my customer doesn't want to upgrade to RELENG_5 yet. I'm going to look at backporting the -CURRENT ips driver to RELENG_4, I'll post patches (and a PR) if I'm successful.
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