Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 11:48:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Brandon Huey <bh@synergy.transbay.net> To: Chris Johnson <cjohnson@palomine.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DPT RAID-5 -- newfs during sysinstall is hanging Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980903114712.29697A-100000@synergy.transbay.net> In-Reply-To: <19980903141158.A3904@palomine.net>
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i had a problem with similar symptoms, however it was due to using u2w low voltage drives on the PM3334UW. i post this more for archival purposes. -bh On Thu, 3 Sep 1998, Chris Johnson wrote: > I have a simple RAID-5 setup consisting of three Barracuda drives connected to > a DPT PM3334UW RAID controller (firmware version 07L0). Using the DOS-based > tools, I successfully built the RAID, specifying "other" as the operating > system (as per a message posted by Simon Shapiro, the author of the DPT > drivers). Everything appears normal at this point. > > I then boot with the FreeBSD 2.2.7 boot floppy and do the visual configuration > thing. The RAID "drive" is picked up by dpt0, and the reported size is correct. > The rest of the installation -- partitioning, labelling, etc. -- proceeds > normally. I select "Commit" to get the ball rolling, and this is where things > stop going so well. newfs runs successfully on sd0s1a. Then on either sd0s1e or > sd0s1f newfs hangs. By "hangs" I mean that the message "Doing newfs -b 8192 -f > 1024 /mnt/dev/rsd0s1f" remains on the screen forever (I tried letting it run > for twelve hours), and the only disk activity is what sounds like a short disk > access every second or so. > > On the second virtual console is a long list of numbers, separated by commas. > I've done the above a half dozen times, and the last number that appears is > always 13828128, if that means anything. > > I don't know where to proceed from here. This same RAID setup has been running > successfully with NT for the last year or so, so I'm reasonably sure that the > hardware is okay (though I guess you never know). > > Would I have better luck posting this on freebsd-scsi? I'd considered it, but > the list charter seems to indicate that the list is for SCSI developers rather > than for people having SCSI problems. > > Thanks in advance for any help. > > Chris Johnson > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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