Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 15:06:13 -0600 From: "Cassidy B. Larson" <butch@infowest.com> To: <freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org> Subject: 3ware escalade Message-ID: <BBA09DE5.233C8%butch@infowest.com>
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I'm actually having a bit of a problem with the 3ware 8506 running 5.1, or -CURRENT from a week ago. I can use the machine just fine with all 8, 160GB Seagate (ST3160023AS) drives working happily in their RAID5 configuration. I've been trying to simulate a drive failure, and pull one of the hot swap drives out while the machine is live. I get a message warning me the array is running in degraded mode, plug the drive back in, go to my 3dmd web manager and try rebuilding the array (or from the 3ware bios to rebuild). Rebuilding starts just fine. However, when I reboot (during rebuilding phase) the kernel loads and the device drivers proceed to load and go through normal bootup phase. However, about the point that the machine verifies the slices are clean, I get a core-dump and error out. From there, the only option is to reboot the machine, which results in the same, unable to mount the drives stage (inoperable). I'm going to try another testing method and create a 2 drive mirror array and a 6 drive RAID5. Hopefully, if I pull one of the drives of the RAID5, I can boot successfully during Rebuilding stage. Then the next test is to pull one of the mirrored array. Anybody have similar experiences with the 8506 and rebooting in a Rebuilding stage, but unable to use the OS? I'd be interested to hear. If more information is needed, please let me know as I can record the errors appropriately after this next Array gets built and the OS installed. Thanks, Cassidy
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