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Date:      Sun, 06 Jun 1999 00:18:12 -0400
From:      "Michael R. Gile" <gilem@wsg.net>
To:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: [HELP!] Crashing FreeBSD server with file system corruption
Message-ID:  <4.2.0.56.19990606001442.01cfd590@ns2.wsg.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990605232449.9491Y-100000@cygnus.rush.net>
References:  <19990605202609.A46300@lunatic.oneinsane.net>

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At 11:27 PM 6/5/99 -0500, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>On Sat, 5 Jun 1999, Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Jun 05, 1999 at 10:58:07AM -0700, Michael A. Alderete wrote:
> > > 
> > > * The disk subsystem is a SCSI RAID controller from
> > > DPT. It's a PCI card and has 4 drives attached,
> > > configured in a RAID 5 with one drive as a hot
> > > standby.
> > > 
> > One possibility could be the DPT. You might want to try a SCSI to SCSI
> > raid solution. Reason why I say this is because a close friend of mine
> > was seeing the same thing with there DPT's moved over to an infortrend <sp?>
> > scsi-scsi solution and the filesystem corruption went away.
>
>We tried for a month to get a DPT controller working with FreeBSD,
>and failed, we tried:
>
>1) new card
>2) new drives
>3) new motherboard
>4) new cables
>5) crying
>6) praying
>...

WOW, that surprises me.  We have been running DPT with FreeBSD 2.2 since the drivers have been released (as well as Linux and ::ducking:: NT), and they have been rock solid.  Out our curiosity, What models of the controllers are you using?  Are you using DPT ECC or standard parity RAM?  What version of FreeBSD?
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