From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 1 03:15:35 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6C0AB4C for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2013 03:15:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jjohnstone-freebsdquestions@tridentusa.com) Received: from mail.tridentusa.com (mail.tridentusa.com [173.15.185.57]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 75A1D2463 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2013 03:15:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 54605 invoked from network); 31 Jul 2013 23:08:51 -0400 Received: from pool-173-54-0-191.nwrknj.fios.verizon.net (HELO new-host-3.home) (jjohnstone@tridentusa.com@173.54.0.191) by mail.tridentusa.com with CAMELLIA256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 31 Jul 2013 23:08:51 -0400 Message-ID: <51F9D143.1040504@tridentusa.com> Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 23:08:51 -0400 From: John Johnstone User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130620 Thunderbird/17.0.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Felder Subject: Re: System hangs for several minutes (disk IO related) References: <20130730171938.GA3602@aurora.oekb.co.at> <51F91101.4080301@fjl.co.uk> <1375278114.15234.3692179.76D31AF7@webmail.messagingengine.com> In-Reply-To: <1375278114.15234.3692179.76D31AF7@webmail.messagingengine.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2013 03:15:36 -0000 On 7/31/13 9:41 AM, Mark Felder wrote: > If you Google SmartArray P400 I'm sure you will find tons of horror > stories. As soon as I saw that in your post I recalled looking into an > issue for a customer not too long ago. In short, it's a very bad > controller with tons of issues. I could be mistaking this for another > controller, but I'm pretty confident this is the same one. FreeBSD 9.1 is running here on a few DL360 G5's with the P400i and I've seen no problems with them. I've seen about 200 of the same machines in production for a few years with Windows and Linux and not a particularly notable failure rate. I just did a simple web search for P400 problems and didn't come up with much. I'd be surprised if there's a significant difference between the P400i and the P400. - John J.