Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 17:22:48 -0400 From: "Simon" <simon@optinet.com> To: "Cassidy B. Larson" <butch@infowest.com>, "freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 3ware escalade Message-ID: <20031001212300.104D643FA3@mx1.FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <BBA09DE5.233C8%butch@infowest.com>
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Why are you rebooting in a middle of a rebuild? I didn't know this is acceptable. I thought about it, but didn't actually try it. Rebuilds without interruption work fine with my 7500-8 controller with 8 IBM drives in RAID5 running 5.1-R -Simon On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 15:06:13 -0600, Cassidy B. Larson wrote: > > >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 > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hardware-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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