Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 15:26:05 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: "Douglas K. Rand" <rand@meridian-enviro.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: iir + Tyan S2460 + SMP problems Message-ID: <20060421222605.GW38619@funkthat.com> In-Reply-To: <874q0mpp2y.wl%rand@meridian-enviro.com> References: <874q0mpp2y.wl%rand@meridian-enviro.com>
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Douglas K. Rand wrote this message on Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 16:59 -0500:
> We're having problems with FreeBSD 5.4, 6.0, and 6.1 and an ICP Vortex
> GDT8546RZ 4 port SATA RAID card in a Tyan S2460 system with dual AMD
> Athlon MP 1600+ CPUs. We do not have any problems with this
> configuration under FreeBSD 4.11, and we have the same ICP cards in
> Tyan based Opterion system (S2882 and S4882) run with out problems
> under FreeBSD 5.4 and 6.1.
>
> We can reproduce the problem on two different S2460 based systems, and
> have tried 2 seperate ICP GDT8546RZ cards, so we don't believe it is a
> hardware problem. (Our success with FreeBSD 4.11 also provides some
> evidence that our hardware is OK.)
[...]
We've had very similar experiences on 4.7-R. The box would hang on
one partition waiting for IO to come back, but direct access to the
disk, or accessing other partitions would pass IO fine. This is with
Intel SRCU31A and SRCU42L cards. With older GDT cards, it would hang
the entire system, since older firmware would completely stop processing
commands...
> Any advice is welcome. Well, except for "dump the Tyan S2460
> motherboards" maybe.
How about drop iir? We had serious issues w/ iir on 4.7-R where the
system would just hang, and Intel/Adaptect/ICP-Vortex has done zero
to help us. Scott Long has done more on his own to help us than the
company that produces the card... Make sure that you are running
rev 1.13.2.1 of src/sys/dev/iir/iir.c which includes some of scottl's
changes to restrict the card to hopefully not hang...
btw, Adaptect/ICP-Vortex the latest version of FreeBSD that they support
their cards on is 5.2... Any releases beyond that are unsupported, so
good luck trying to get them to help you.
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