Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 15:30:19 +0100 From: Oliver Hoffmann <oliver.hoffmann@uw-service.de> To: freebsd-firewire@freebsd.org Subject: Odd problems with 5.1 RELEASE Message-ID: <200402041530.19751.oliver.hoffmann@uw-service.de>
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Hi all! I do backups to external firewire-hds. The fw-controler-card is the Texas Instruments TSB12LV26. I connected an external 5.25" case (oxford 911) with a mobilerack inside. In this rack is a160 GB (Maxtor 6Y160PO) harddisk. It runs FreeBSD 5.1 RELEASE on an Athlon 1500+ with an Abit motherboard. It has one ICP-Vortex with a raid-system (ca. 200 GB, level 5). I had a lot of trouble with 4.7 and 4.8 and I couldn't use 5.0 because of the raid-controler. Thus the time I installed the system 5.1 REL. was probably the best for my situation. But this server is not stable (not as stable as I expect from FreeBSD). I'm not sure whether this has something to do with firewire or not: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=i386/60919. Does somebody had such problems in combination with fw? Another issue are strange sporadic crashes particular at night after or during the backups. There is nothing to see in the logs or at ttyv0. It just hangs completely. These crashes occured more often after I connected a second HD for a monthly backup. I have a second fileserver (5.1 REL.) with IDE-raid, but the same firewire hardware (only one fw-HD). It works flawless. When I switch off the second fw-disk (/dev/da0) and then try too mount the first one or start sysinstall those processes will be in the process list for ever (without doing what I want of course). It is not possible to kill them until I switch this device on again. I want to remove da0 again, because I want to check whether this second disk has an influence concerning stability. But how can I do that? I wonder why the second fw-disk gets the name da0 and the first one da2. I also wonder why I have to switch of da2 in order to get the system booting. A df -h with both backup-disks mounted: Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a 475M 71M 366M 16% / devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev /dev/ad0s1g 15G 2.0K 14G 0% /data /dev/ad0s1e 248M 10.0K 228M 0% /tmp /dev/ad0s1f 989M 615M 295M 68% /usr /dev/ad0s1d 248M 7.5M 220M 3% /var /dev/da1s1e 157G 84G 60G 58% /mnt/raid1 /dev/da1s1f 44G 29G 11G 72% /mnt/raid2 /dev/da0s1d 184G 2.0K 169G 0% /mnt/fw2 /dev/da2s1e 148G 16G 120G 12% /mnt/fw Thanks a lot for help in advance! Greetings, Oliver.
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