From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 1 17:01:30 2004 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 AEDE416A52C for ; Thu, 1 Jul 2004 17:01:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp.internal.alivewww.com (gp1.alivewww.com [217.158.94.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDCF243D2F for ; Thu, 1 Jul 2004 17:01:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from enquiries@alivewww.com) Received: from host-83-146-2-180.bulldogdsl.com ([83.146.2.180]) by smtp.internal.alivewww.com with asmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Bg4vH-000JaM-VW for freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org; Thu, 01 Jul 2004 18:00:32 +0100 From: Alasdair Lumsden To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1088701228.2638.86.camel@host-83-146-2-180.bulldogdsl.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6-1mdk Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 18:00:28 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: 3Ware 8506 Series, 3DM, Upgrading to 9000 Series 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: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 17:01:30 -0000 Dear Collective, We're using a 3Ware 8506-8 card in a production box running RELENG_4_9, and have had a few lockups that appear to be related to the card stopping responding. The logs reveal very little (presumably because it can't write logging information to disk!), there was no Panic so I don't have /var/crash information (Again i suspect even if there was a panic, if it can't write to disk...). I do remember seeing a message along the lines of "swappager: Timeout waiting on twe0" or similar on the console. This is why I suspect the problem is related to the 3Ware card, especially given that all disk writes just cease. I've got the box logging on serial console now so if it happens again I'll have the exact error messages. The machine is a Dual Xeon 2.8GHz with 3Gb ram, running RELENG_4_9 (-p9). I've attached dmesg output at the end of the email. Sadly due to the fact this is a production box, debugging options are limited. So basically my questions are: 1. Is anyone else experiencing similar problems with the 8506 Card? 2. How stable are the twe drivers, and is it likely that the symptoms I've listed are caused by the 3Ware Card/Drivers? 3. Is it worth upgrading to the 9000 series card, given that this is a production box and stability is vital? I noticed on the 3Ware website recently: "For 3ware 7000 and 8000 series RAID controllers FreeBSD drivers are beta." At the time we bought the card, there was no such message on their website and reports were that the card worked fine on FreeBSD. Thanks again for any help/advice on the matter. dmesg output: Copyright (c) 1992-2003 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE-p9 #0: Mon Jun 7 20:03:33 BST 2004 alasdair@psa1.123dns.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PSA1-2004-06-07 Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz (2799.22-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0xf29 Stepping = 9 Features=0xbfebfbff real memory = 3221225472 (3145728K bytes) avail memory = 3134451712 (3060988K bytes) Programming 24 pins in IOAPIC #0 IOAPIC #0 intpin 2 -> irq 0 Programming 24 pins in IOAPIC #1 Programming 24 pins in IOAPIC #2 FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor motherboard: 2 CPUs cpu0 (BSP): apic id: 0, version: 0x00050014, at 0xfee00000 cpu1 (AP): apic id: 6, version: 0x00050014, at 0xfee00000 io0 (APIC): apic id: 7, version: 0x00178020, at 0xfec00000 io1 (APIC): apic id: 8, version: 0x00178020, at 0xfec80000 io2 (APIC): apic id: 9, version: 0x00178020, at 0xfec80400 Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc0345000. Warning: Pentium 4 CPU: PSE disabled Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled Using $PIR table, 12 entries at 0xc00f47f0 npx0: on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface pcib0: on motherboard IOAPIC #0 intpin 16 -> irq 2 IOAPIC #0 intpin 18 -> irq 9 IOAPIC #0 intpin 17 -> irq 10 pci0: on pcib0 pcib1: at device 2.0 on pci0 pci2: on pcib1 pci2: (vendor=0x8086, dev=0x1461) at 28.0 pcib2: at device 29.0 on pci2 IOAPIC #2 intpin 0 -> irq 11 pci4: on pcib2 em0: port 0xdc00-0xdc3f mem 0xfe9e0000-0xfe9fffff irq 11 at device 1.0 on pci4 em0: Speed:N/A Duplex:N/A pci2: (vendor=0x8086, dev=0x1461) at 30.0 pcib3: at device 31.0 on pci2 IOAPIC #1 intpin 0 -> irq 16 pci3: on pcib3 twe0: <3ware Storage Controller> port 0xcc00-0xcc0f mem 0xfe000000-0xfe7fffff,0xfe8ffc00-0xfe8ffc0f irq 16 at device 3.0 on pci3 twe0: 8 ports, Firmware FE7S 1.05.00.063, BIOS BE7X 1.08.00.048 pci0: at 29.0 irq 2 pcib4: at device 30.0 on pci0 pci1: on pcib4 fxp0: port 0xac00-0xac3f mem 0xfd7a0000-0xfd7bffff,0xfd7fe000-0xfd7fefff irq 10 at device 1.0 on pci1 fxp0: Ethernet address 00:e0:81:27:f5:ba inphy0: on miibus0 inphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto pci1: at 2.0 irq 9 isab0: at device 31.0 on pci0 isa0: on isab0 atapci0: port 0xffa0-0xffaf,0-0x3,0-0x7,0-0x3,0-0x7 irq 9 at device 31.1 on pci0 ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0 pci0: (vendor=0x8086, dev=0x2483) at 31.3 irq 10 orm0: