Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 14:33:29 -0500 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: rand@meridian-enviro.com Cc: rand@meridian-enviro.com, Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, bryanh@meridian-enviro.com Subject: Re: 3ware problems Message-ID: <5.0.2.1.0.20010315142949.03387c00@marble.sentex.ca> In-Reply-To: <87bsr2ones.wl@delta.meridian-enviro.com> References: <4.2.2.20010314203128.030e6c20@marble.sentex.net> <200103150029.f2F0TTF04572@mass.dis.org> <87g0gfopf4.wl@delta.meridian-enviro.com> <87elvzoona.wl@delta.meridian-enviro.com> <4.2.2.20010314203128.030e6c20@marble.sentex.net>
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At 01:14 PM 3/15/01 -0600, rand@meridian-enviro.com wrote:
>Doug> As soon as we had the problem we upgraded the firmware. Here is the
>Doug> revelant parts of dmesg:
>Doug>
>Doug> twe0: <3ware Storage Controller> port 0xef60-0xef6f irq 10 at device
>20.0
>Doug> on pci0
>Doug> twe0: 4 ports, Firmware FE6X 1.01.18.001, BIOS BEXX 1.06.00.001
>
>Mike> I have had good luck with that rev on a number of cards. Are
>Mike> you by any chance using a stripe size other than the default 64?
>Mike> I found using 128K craps out on FreeBSD and Win2K.
>
>Sorry this took me so long to verify, I just now had a chance at the
>physical system. I am using a stripe size of 64KB, just verified that
>in the 3ware bios.
Hmmm... I am using the exact same rev, but with two RAID0 stripes.
twe0: 4 ports, Firmware FE6X 1.01.18.001, BIOS BEXX 1.06.00.001
on one machine.
I tried yesterday to stress the machine with 25 simultaneous
bonnie -s 500 &
Although the machine was sluggish, it still worked. Similarly, make -j12
buildworld worked. In the past when i saw a similar bug, I could reproduce
it 100% of the time this way.
---Mike
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