From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 19 12:35:27 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4075116A420 for ; Sun, 19 Feb 2006 12:35:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from don@lizardhill.com) Received: from bigbird.whtech.com (bigbird.whtech.com [64.125.72.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ED40643D45 for ; Sun, 19 Feb 2006 12:35:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from don@lizardhill.com) Received: (qmail 42820 invoked by uid 0); 19 Feb 2006 12:29:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO MickeyLaptop) (unknown) by unknown with SMTP; 19 Feb 2006 12:29:53 -0000 From: "Don O'Neil" To: Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 04:29:44 -0800 Message-ID: <008201c63550$2a413490$6d00a8c0@MickeyLaptop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2670 Thread-Index: AcY1UCm7/OStR+Q1Rde+TcJzEC6cmQ== Subject: 3Ware Escalade Issues X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 12:35:27 -0000 Hi all, I've been experiencing some problems with my 3ware Escalade 6000 array lately that has been causing spontaneous reboots of the system. There appears to be a bad sector on one of the drives according to smartctl, but nothing serious. However, every time the system tried to write to that sector in the array, the system would freeze, and then reboot, and of course it would say the file system isn't clean, etc... Since the file system is 1 TB in size, it would take 8+ hours to FSCK it. The array is only striped, and not mirrored or built with redunancy. I'm basically using the card/driver to make one large volume for a web server. I have a few questions: 1) Is this a known bug? I'm running FreeBSD 4.11 (for software compatibility issues at the moment, I will upgrade at some point in the future) 2) How can I trap the errors and eliminate the re-boot issue? 3) Is there some way I can do a faster FSCK, or perhaps 'fool' the system into thinking the file system is clean? 4) Any suggestions on how to fix this? Thanks all!!!