Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 16:38:36 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: noah <noah@indymedia.org> Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org, micah@indymedia.org, mark.salyzyn@adaptec.com Subject: Re: update Message-ID: <200012170038.eBH0caQ02010@mass.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 16 Dec 2000 07:13:51 PST." <20001216071351.A27119@indymedia.org>
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(please wrap your paragraphs so that it's possible to reply to your
messages in a sane fashion, thanks 8)
> At "asr0: major=154" the raid card begins a high pitched beep indicating
> that two of the drives have failed and that a rebuild of the raid is
> required, but we've tested all of the drives and replaced the raid card
> with a new one, and still get the same problem. The reason I'm asking
> about possible software issues is that other OS's have worked on this raid
> setup.
I've copied Mark at Adaptec, who is the author and principle maintainer
of the 'asr' driver, since he's going to have the best idea of what's
actually going on here. Without saying which OS' you've used, it's tough
to know whether they simply aren't enabling the card alarm though.
Have you tried running the Adaptec management software to check the
status of the card?
> Thanks.
>
> On 12/15, Mike Smith wrote:
> >
> > > Hi, I'm working on trying to install FreeBSD 4.2 on a dual p3 700 with
> > > an Adaptec 3200S raid card. From what I can tell everyone that has tried
> > > this card has had good luck. When we install FreeBSD (booting off cd) it
> > > recognizes the card and installs on it perfectly, but when it loads the OS
> > > off the raid it does something to damage the hardware raid, requiring us
> > > to rebuild the RAID in the 3200S' bios. We're pretty sure that this isn't
> > > a hardware problem.
> >
> > You haven't actually included anything that suggests that there's a
> > problem occurring, so it's somewhat difficult to guess what's going on.
> >
> > However, I don't lend much credibility to the suggestion that "FreeBSD
> > does something to damage the hadware raid" - things just don't happen
> > like that.
> >
> > I would be inclined to suspect that you probably have a suspect disk, or
> > cabling/enclosure problems, but without more details it's hard to be sure.
> >
> >
> > --
> > ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his
> > rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want
> > to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force
> > people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt]
> > V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E
> >
> >
>
> --
> noah .. email for pgp/gpg key
>
--
... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his
rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want
to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force
people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt]
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