From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 1 14:23:02 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 841DC16A4B3 for ; Wed, 1 Oct 2003 14:23:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cobra.acceleratedweb.net (cobra-gw.acceleratedweb.net [207.99.79.37]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 104D643FA3 for ; Wed, 1 Oct 2003 14:23:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from simon@optinet.com) Received: (qmail 18488 invoked by uid 110); 1 Oct 2003 21:23:01 -0000 Received: from ool-18baaf5c.dyn.optonline.net (HELO win2kpc1) (24.186.175.92) by cobra.acceleratedweb.net with SMTP; 1 Oct 2003 21:23:01 -0000 From: "Simon" To: "Cassidy B. Larson" , "freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org" Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 17:22:48 -0400 Priority: Normal X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.20.2661) For Windows 2000 (5.0.2195;4) In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20031001212300.104D643FA3@mx1.FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: Re: 3ware escalade X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 21:23:02 -0000 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" >