Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 22:04:48 -0400 From: Bart Silverstrim <bsilver@chrononomicon.com> To: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: Chris Boyd <cboyd@gizmopartners.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Update on data corruption with Tyan/3Ware Message-ID: <46F86CC0.7030805@chrononomicon.com> In-Reply-To: <BMEDLGAENEKCJFGODFOCCEHACAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> References: <BMEDLGAENEKCJFGODFOCCEHACAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>
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Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > 3ware is supported by the manufacturer - what do they say? > > Ted > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Chris Boyd >> Sent: Monday, September 24, 2007 2:54 PM >> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >> Subject: Update on data corruption with Tyan/3Ware >> >> >> Here's an update on my odd problem. Thanks to Don B for some hints >> that helped us start looking in a better directions. >> >> System is a Tyan Thunder K8SE motherboard with dual Opteron 250 >> 2.4GHz CPUs and a 3Ware 9550SX-4LP PCI Express four port RAID >> controller running in RAID 5. Disks are 4x Seagate 500GB SATA. 4GB >> Memory. >> >> Latest BIOS and firmware on mobo and RAID controller. >> >> FreeBSD 6.2 AMD64 with all patches as of 9-21-2007 >> >> We've narrowed the problem down to files that are > 4GB. Anytime we >> have a file that's > 4GB, we get inconsistent checksums, can't >> uncompress it, etc. Files < 4GB are fine. >> >> So is this a RAID controller issue? A filesystem problem? All hints >> appreciated. How are you getting the files on the system? Network transfer? Direct copy from a disc? What filesystem is it you're using? 3ware is well supported under Linux, from what I can tell and what I've experienced, and can't imagine that a manufacturer with a good track record of driver support for Linux for so long would not support FreeBSD as well.
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