Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2005 02:35:02 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Andrew Heyn" <aheyn@lifestylecomm.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Compaq Proliant 8500 issue with Integrated SMART Array RAIDController (ida) Message-ID: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNOEBDFBAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <CLELJKHKLJLNMNHGHFIDMEDCCCAA.aheyn@lifestylecomm.com>
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owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org wrote: > Hi, > > I have a Compaq Proliant 8500 with the integrated SMART Array RAID > controller. I recall seeing "Symbios" and "ARM" on a chip on the > center of the PCI module > must be the > RAID controller. I > used to have extreme problems even getting the system to boot > up until I > used the SmartStart > CD and disabled the "Array Accelerator" for my one and only RAID1+0 > Container. (Before doing this) I would get numerous > ida0: soft write error and if the system did manage to boot > up, a process > might read the disk, and > forever be stuck in some kernel routine between userland and > the disk that > gets a block or whatever. > Now, I only get an occasional "ida0: soft read/write error" which > occasionally causes a 15 or so second delay. The "Array > Accelerator" for > the Integrated SMART array controller is 8MB of read-only cache. > Other SMART Array models like the 4200 have battery backed up cache > that can be user-separated between write and read cache. > > I'm wondering if anybody has ever seen the problem mentioned above. > > I would hate to have to replace the whole > PCI module because of some bad controller ram since that darn thing is > integrated, and would make useless the > internal bays if another raid card was added. As a note, the contacts > between the hard drive and the drive module > have been cleaned out multiple times for all the drives in the > array. The > connection between the drive module and > the back of the computer is sturdy and clean. There are only > TWO cables in > this entire system that I know of, and one > is for the IDE CDROM, and one is for the floppy. So, cabling > cannot be a > problem. I also have two working PSUs that > each have a 120V line going into it, so I doubt it's a lack of > power. Even > though 220V is recommended for both of them, > it works fine with even just one 120V line. > > I asked the HP/Compaq forum and they weren't able to give me > much more of an > answer than "check the cabling" and "blow > off the dust" which I found extremely irritating because the > data is carried > on copper wires that resemble the pins found > on an IDE hard drive or floppy, not your standard "cabling." I might > ultimately be wrong...but I doubt it. > You should ask Windows questions in a Windows forum. Oh, you aren't running Windows on this system? Must be FreeBSD 2.2 then, right? Ted
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