From owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 10 11:58:34 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1A6BFFB2 for ; Thu, 10 Jul 2014 11:58:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from kabab.cs.huji.ac.il (kabab.cs.huji.ac.il [132.65.116.12]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BC9842263 for ; Thu, 10 Jul 2014 11:58:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from th-04.cs.huji.ac.il ([132.65.80.125]) by kabab.cs.huji.ac.il with esmtp id 1X5CzX-00044Q-GH; Thu, 10 Jul 2014 14:58:23 +0300 Subject: Re: Data corruption with the mfi(4) driver Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.3 \(1878.6\)) From: Daniel Braniss X-Priority: 3 In-Reply-To: <803159D4D0C44F879D21B6E0ECFE391F@multiplay.co.uk> Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 14:58:22 +0300 Message-Id: References: <20140710092251.GA1206@sekishi.zefyris.com> <20140710105307.GD1206@sekishi.zefyris.com> <765694DA8A58468484623092946127D1@multiplay.co.uk> <20140710113315.GA3449@sekishi.zefyris.com> <803159D4D0C44F879D21B6E0ECFE391F@multiplay.co.uk> To: Steven Hartland X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1878.6) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.18 Cc: FreeBSD-scsi X-BeenThere: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: SCSI subsystem List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 11:58:34 -0000 On Jul 10, 2014, at 2:50 PM, Steven Hartland = wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Francois Tigeot" = >=20 >=20 >> On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 12:24:21PM +0100, Steven Hartland wrote: >>> The key thing to determine here are precise factors of the = corruption your >>> seeing as it looks like there is some mixing up of issues >> My original mail was intended as a head's up notice; I don't have = enough >> information to fill in every detail and point to a particular root = cause so >> far. >>> Given this could you confirm:- >>> 1. Hardware >>> 1.1. LSI card / generation >> Dell Rx20 server generation >> I have personally seen the issue on a Dell R720xd with a LSI Dell = Perc H710 >> adapter. PCI Id: >> mfi0@pci0:3:0:0: class=3D0x010400 card=3D0x1f341028 chip=3D0x005b1000 = rev=3D0x05 >> hdr=3D0x00 but have had private reports from at least two different = machines >> having the same problem. >=20 > Perc H710 is 2208 based. >=20 >> All other parameters are variable. >=20 > They may be variable but need a point of reference, so detailing the = examples > is key. we have several machines with said PERCs, used as ZFS/NFS for postgres = to large dna sequences and have yet to receive complains of data corruption, this does not mean = the absence of them :-), but considering the amount of storage/servers some user should have = complained by now =85 so, is someone else in FreeBSD 9.2/3 seeing such corruptions? BTW, the only issue we had was when the server was connected at 10G we = did have a lot of data corruption which was solved by turning TSO off. danny >=20 > Regards > Steve > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-scsi > To unsubscribe, send any mail to = "freebsd-scsi-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"