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Date:      Thu, 1 Jul 2004 14:51:31 -0700
From:      Paul Saab <ps@mu.org>
To:        Alasdair Lumsden <enquiries@alivewww.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 3Ware 8506 Series, 3DM, Upgrading to 9000 Series
Message-ID:  <20040701215131.GA83112@elvis.mu.org>
In-Reply-To: <1088701228.2638.86.camel@host-83-146-2-180.bulldogdsl.com>
References:  <1088701228.2638.86.camel@host-83-146-2-180.bulldogdsl.com>

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Have you gotten a crashdump after one of these lockups?

Alasdair Lumsden (enquiries@alivewww.com) wrote:
> Dear Collective,
> 
> We're using a 3Ware 8506-8 card in a production box running RELENG_4_9,
> and have had a few lockups that appear to be related to the card
> stopping responding. The logs reveal very little (presumably because it
> can't write logging information to disk!), there was no Panic so I don't
> have /var/crash information (Again i suspect even if there was a panic,
> if it can't write to disk...).
> 
> I do remember seeing a message along the lines of "swappager: Timeout
> waiting on twe0" or similar on the console. This is why I suspect the
> problem is related to the 3Ware card, especially given that all disk
> writes just cease.
> 
> I've got the box logging on serial console now so if it happens again
> I'll have the exact error messages.
> 
> The machine is a Dual Xeon 2.8GHz with 3Gb ram, running RELENG_4_9
> (-p9). I've attached dmesg output at the end of the email.
> 
> Sadly due to the fact this is a production box, debugging options are
> limited. So basically my questions are:
> 
> 1. Is anyone else experiencing similar problems with the 8506 Card?
> 
> 2. How stable are the twe drivers, and is it likely that the symptoms
> I've listed are caused by the 3Ware Card/Drivers?
> 
> 3. Is it worth upgrading to the 9000 series card, given that this is a
> production box and stability is vital? I noticed on the 3Ware website
> recently:
> 
> "For 3ware 7000 and 8000 series RAID controllers FreeBSD drivers are
> beta."
> 
> At the time we bought the card, there was no such message on their
> website and reports were that the card worked fine on FreeBSD.
> 
> Thanks again for any help/advice on the matter.
> 
> dmesg output:
> 
> Copyright (c) 1992-2003 The FreeBSD Project.
> Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
>         The Regents of the University of California. All rights
> reserved.
> FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE-p9 #0: Mon Jun  7 20:03:33 BST 2004
>     alasdair@psa1.123dns.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PSA1-2004-06-07
> Timecounter "i8254"  frequency 1193182 Hz
> CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz (2799.22-MHz 686-class CPU)
>   Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0xf29  Stepping = 9
>  
> Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>
> real memory  = 3221225472 (3145728K bytes)
> avail memory = 3134451712 (3060988K bytes)
> Programming 24 pins in IOAPIC #0
> IOAPIC #0 intpin 2 -> irq 0
> Programming 24 pins in IOAPIC #1
> Programming 24 pins in IOAPIC #2
> FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor motherboard: 2 CPUs
>  cpu0 (BSP): apic id:  0, version: 0x00050014, at 0xfee00000
>  cpu1 (AP):  apic id:  6, version: 0x00050014, at 0xfee00000
>  io0 (APIC): apic id:  7, version: 0x00178020, at 0xfec00000
>  io1 (APIC): apic id:  8, version: 0x00178020, at 0xfec80000
>  io2 (APIC): apic id:  9, version: 0x00178020, at 0xfec80400
> Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc0345000.
> Warning: Pentium 4 CPU: PSE disabled
> Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled
> Using $PIR table, 12 entries at 0xc00f47f0
> npx0: <math processor> on motherboard
> npx0: INT 16 interface
> pcib0: <Host to PCI bridge> on motherboard
> IOAPIC #0 intpin 16 -> irq 2
> IOAPIC #0 intpin 18 -> irq 9
> IOAPIC #0 intpin 17 -> irq 10
> pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0
> pcib1: <PCI to PCI bridge (vendor=8086 device=2543)> at device 2.0 on
> pci0
> pci2: <PCI bus> on pcib1
> pci2: <unknown card> (vendor=0x8086, dev=0x1461) at 28.0
> pcib2: <PCI to PCI bridge (vendor=8086 device=1460)> at device 29.0 on
> pci2
> IOAPIC #2 intpin 0 -> irq 11
> pci4: <PCI bus> on pcib2
> em0: <Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection, Version - 1.7.16> port
> 0xdc00-0xdc3f mem 0xfe9e0000-0xfe9fffff irq 11 at device 1.0 on pci4
> em0:  Speed:N/A  Duplex:N/A
> pci2: <unknown card> (vendor=0x8086, dev=0x1461) at 30.0
> pcib3: <PCI to PCI bridge (vendor=8086 device=1460)> at device 31.0 on
> pci2
> IOAPIC #1 intpin 0 -> irq 16
> pci3: <PCI bus> on pcib3
> twe0: <3ware Storage Controller> port 0xcc00-0xcc0f mem
> 0xfe000000-0xfe7fffff,0xfe8ffc00-0xfe8ffc0f irq 16 at device 3.0 on pci3
> twe0: 8 ports, Firmware FE7S 1.05.00.063, BIOS BE7X 1.08.00.048
> pci0: <UHCI USB controller> at 29.0 irq 2
> pcib4: <Intel 82801BA/BAM (ICH2) Hub to PCI bridge> at device 30.0 on
> pci0
> pci1: <PCI bus> on pcib4
> fxp0: <Intel 82551 Pro/100 Ethernet> port 0xac00-0xac3f mem
> 0xfd7a0000-0xfd7bffff,0xfd7fe000-0xfd7fefff irq 10 at device 1.0 on pci1
> fxp0: Ethernet address 00:e0:81:27:f5:ba
> inphy0: <i82555 10/100 media interface> on miibus0
> inphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
> pci1: <ATI Mach64-GR graphics accelerator> at 2.0 irq 9
> isab0: <PCI to ISA bridge (vendor=8086 device=2480)> at device 31.0 on
> pci0
> isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
> atapci0: <Intel ICH3 ATA100 controller> port
> 0xffa0-0xffaf,0-0x3,0-0x7,0-0x3,0-0x7 irq 9 at device 31.1 on pci0
> ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0
> ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0
> pci0: <unknown card> (vendor=0x8086, dev=0x2483) at 31.3 irq 10
> orm0: <Option ROMs> at iomem
> 0xc0000-0xc7fff,0xc8000-0xc8fff,0xc9800-0xcafff,0xcb000-0xcc7ff on isa0
> pmtimer0 on isa0
> fdc0: <NEC 72065B or clone> at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on
> isa0
> fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold
> fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
> atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0
> vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on
> isa0
> sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
> sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x100>
> sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0
> sio0: type 16550A, console
> sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
> APIC_IO: Testing 8254 interrupt delivery
> APIC_IO: routing 8254 via IOAPIC #0 intpin 2
> IP packet filtering initialized, divert disabled, rule-based forwarding
> enabled, default to accept, logging limited to 100 packets/entry by
> default
> SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched!
> acd0: CDROM <SAMSUNG CD-ROM SC-152A> at ata0-slave PIO4
> twed0: <Unit 0, TwinStor, Normal> on twe0
> twed0: 239371MB (490232704 sectors)
> twe0: command interrupt
> Mounting root from ufs:/dev/twed0s1a
> em0: Link is up 1000 Mbps Full Duplex
> 
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-ps



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