From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 21 09:11:02 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DE0216A420 for ; Tue, 21 Aug 2007 09:11:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chad@shire.net) Received: from hobbiton.shire.net (mail.shire.net [166.70.252.250]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E932B13C45E for ; Tue, 21 Aug 2007 09:11:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chad@shire.net) Received: from [76.23.4.92] (helo=[192.168.99.68]) by hobbiton.shire.net with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.51) id 1INPUM-000FMH-Qw; Tue, 21 Aug 2007 02:53:26 -0600 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <25C2FAFC-9707-48BC-BC2D-62B47BC5C5F7@shire.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 02:53:25 -0600 To: FreeBSD Questions X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 76.23.4.92 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: chad@shire.net X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on hobbiton.shire.net); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Cc: Chad Leigh Subject: 6.2-RELEASE amd64 system rebooting under heavy load with Areca ARC-1231ML X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 09:11:02 -0000 Hi I have a new system I am building. Tyan S5197 MB with Intel Core 2 Quad 2.4ghz, 4GB RAM Areca ARC-1231ML raid card. 5 320gb disks in a RAID6 with 1 320gb disk hot spare plus two 750gb in a raid1 mirror. Using the ARECA firmware, each raidset is subdivided into separate volumes that each appear to the OS as separate daN type disks. I read through Google about various problems that the Areca driver had as well as on the Areca website FAQ (on FreeBSD) I installed 6.2-RELEASE on this system. Under heavy IO load the system reboots itself. This happened both in trying to install the OS, and if I got that far, in trying to build cvsup tool or in building a new kernel. The machine could sit there idle for hours but you startup a large build and usually withing a few minutes or 10 minutes it would reboot itself. I tried installing the 6.2-STABLE snapshot (latest on in the downloads which is from June) but the whole system would lock up after a few minutes and I would get corruption on the console screen so I decided that was not a great plan. I also tried the 7-CURRENT as a test but that would not stay out of the kernel debugger. So I went back to 6.2-STABLE. I installed it and then copied the areca kernel driver source arcmsr.c/.h from the 6.2-STABLE snapshot from June (latest snapshot I could find) and used it to rebuild the kernel. I was then able to build cvsup and do a cvsup to the latest -RELEASE code and was a significant way through a buildworld when it happened again and rebooted itself. So it appears the problem is not yet solved. Is anyone out there running a form of 6.2 on an x64 type platform using an Areca controller? What is the latest 6.x compatible driver source for the Areca? I tried to copy the 7-CURRENT areca source back but it relies on the new CAM system and even if I added that option to my 6.2 there were a bunch of compilation errors that made it look like the 7.0-CURRENT IO or SCSI or whatever lower level it uses system has changed. Any help in figuring out how to get this up and running without these reboots under load would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Chad --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider chad at shire.net