Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 08:46:57 -0800 (PST) From: Paul Lutt <paul@fluke.com> To: "Matthew N. Dodd" <mdodd@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HP DL360 G3 Hangs on Disk Removal Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0401240841340.732@myst.wavecable.com> In-Reply-To: <20040124054046.W57327@sasami.jurai.net> References: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0401230922380.1362@sarguy.na.flukecorp.com> <20040124054046.W57327@sasami.jurai.net>
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On Sat, 24 Jan 2004, Matthew N. Dodd wrote: > On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Paul Lutt wrote: > > What I got was a system that wasn't totally locked up, but it could not > > perform any disk access. I had a shell open on the console. Pressing > > enter would bring up a new prompt. Trying to do anything that required > > reading the disk would cause the shell to hang. > > I've seen this with the ida(4) driver as well, though only on re-insertion > of a hotswap disk. Failure was the same. With the system cracked open > and the status LEDs on the controller available for viewing you could see > when the controller locked up. > > After going over the driver and instrumenting the interrupt handler and > installing a watchdog timeout routine I see no way that this condition > could be caused by the driver, unless we're supposed to be doing something > that we don't know about. > > What model CISS card do you have? > > -- > 10 40 80 C0 00 FF FF FF FF C0 00 00 00 00 10 AA AA 03 00 00 00 08 00 > lspci shows the following (Yes, I've installed Debian in the interim) 00:04.0 RAID bus controller: Compaq Computer Corporation Smart Array 5i/532 (rev 01) This is all a bit frustrating because I have several Linux based Proliant servers with the CISS hardware and they behave properly when the disk is removed and re-inserted. We also have LOTS of Windows based servers that behave properly given the same test. Makes me suspect some sort of driver issue. Paul Lutt Fluke Corporation
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