From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 3 21:05:24 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 727E416A475 for ; Mon, 3 Dec 2007 21:05:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from josh@tcbug.org) Received: from cenn-smtp.mc.mpls.visi.com (cenn.mc.mpls.visi.com [208.42.156.9]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57E8D13C502 for ; Mon, 3 Dec 2007 21:05:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from josh@tcbug.org) Received: from mail.tcbug.org (mail.tcbug.org [208.42.70.163]) by cenn-smtp.mc.mpls.visi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4190481B8; Mon, 3 Dec 2007 15:05:22 -0600 (CST) Received: from build64.tcbug.org (unknown [208.42.70.167]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.tcbug.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03CEC10AA864; Mon, 3 Dec 2007 15:05:17 -0600 (CST) From: Josh Paetzel To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 15:05:12 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <69611.66116.qm@web63905.mail.re1.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <69611.66116.qm@web63905.mail.re1.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2025945.nsenufIUJM"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200712031505.16963.josh@tcbug.org> Cc: Barney Cordoba , sos@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org, Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: Any successful installs on a Broadcom HT1000 chipset? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 21:05:24 -0000 --nextPart2025945.nsenufIUJM Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Monday 26 November 2007 06:34:08 pm Barney Cordoba wrote: > > Ah, we tested an early 6.2 and it didn't come up in > SATA mode. Well thats promising. If we can just figure > out what's wrong with 7 now. Hopefully Soren can > figure out what might have changed. > > Barney > I've got extensive experience trying to make the H8SSL-i work under load. = =20 I've tried RELENG_6_2, RELENG_6 and RELENG_7 at various points in time, usi= ng=20 either the onboard SATA and gmirror or PCI-X 9550SE 3wares. My results are: Given enough time and load every combination has hung. My best results: RELENG_6_2 with the 3ware cards. I can get 2 weeks out o= f a=20 box at moderate load on average before it panics. Worst results: Tied between RELENG_7 with the 3ware cards and RELENG_6_2 w= ith=20 the onboard SATA in native SATA mode. Data corruption is so bad installati= on=20 is generally not possible. I can probably manage SSH + serial console access to anyone who wants to ta= ke=20 a crack at fixing for a while with whatever combination of hardware and=20 =46reeBSD version you want. We're in the process of migrating off them, wh= ich=20 will leave some hardware laying around for a couple weeks. =2D-=20 Thanks, Josh Paetzel PGP: 8A48 EF36 5E9F 4EDA 5A8C 11B4 26F9 01F1 27AF AECB --nextPart2025945.nsenufIUJM Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBHVG+MJvkB8SevrssRAirTAJ9e5xq942WzlUsPxKwwTCrkkswzUACdFfIg whBrxgy3lZDaMvrthjA5XHE= =aZt6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2025945.nsenufIUJM--