Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 13:56:20 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: ryanb <ryanb@goddamnbastard.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AMI MegaRAID (428 series; Enterprise 1200?) + 4-STABLE (2001.12.14) -> hard lock w/o ability to dump Message-ID: <200104202056.f3KKuKf02398@mass.dis.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 20 Apr 2001 12:08:01 CDT." <20010420120801.B9227@bjorn.goddamnbastard.org>
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> Getting to the point, this machine likes to just totally lock on its
> own. Still pingable, it seems everything is happy that doesn't rely on
> the filesystems/disks. ie: I received a page stating that its SMTP services
> were timing out, but my systat over a serial console was still responsive.
> After exiting systat, it just sat and did nothing, never returning to a
> shell prompt. (Possibly from the shell trying to stat() after exiting
> systat and getting no RAID response? I dunno ...)
It does sound like you have a filesystem lock cascade going on, which
would be explained by a lost I/O. There are other possibilities though.
> dumping to dev #amrd/0x20001, offset 1048592
> dump failed, reason: device doesn't support a dump routine
> Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key on the console to abort
>
> This is making me think the RAID controller is completely acting up if
> we can't get a core dump (well, with _that_ error above).
No, you're on the wrong track here; the driver doesn't have a dump
routine, so you can't dump to it under any circumstances.
> amr0: <AMI MegaRAID> port 0xe480-0xe4ff irq 18 at device 10.0 on pci2
> amr0: <Series 428> Firmware Uc77, BIOS 1.47, 128MB RAM
You need to update your firmware first; UF82-166 is what you want. It's
possible that this isn't the problem, but I can't offer you any help until
you do upgrade, as I don't have a defect listing for AMI's firmware.
You can get the upgrade from AMI's website.
Regards,
Mike
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