Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 16:42:28 -0500 From: "Simon" <simon@optinet.com> To: "Douglas K. Rand" <rand@meridian-enviro.com>, "Mike Tancsa" <mike@sentex.net> Cc: "freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: asr monitoring Message-ID: <20031116214234.289BD43FE3@mx1.FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <871xs8xalt.wl@delta.meridian-enviro.com>
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I would contact 3ware about this and make sure you are running latest firmware on the drives and the controller as well as the motherboard. The controller does ECC checks on all reads and writes, which is how it knows when a drive fails. FreeBSD should have very little to do with this as 3ware is a pure hardware RAID. I would try fixing the problem before trying adaptec or any other brand, for that matter. You may end up with even worse problems. I heard more bad things about adaptec RAID than 3ware. It could very well be that several of your drives are bad and 3ware just can't pick up on it, but who knows, ask 3ware :-) -Simon On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 15:33:02 -0600, Douglas K. Rand wrote: >Mike> This is really odd. We have quite a few cards deployed on >Mike> FreeBSD and have none of these problems. Which 3ware cards are >Mike> you using? What is the firmware rev? > >What really worries me about this is that the mirror set gets >corrupted WITHOUT the 3ware controller knowing about it. > >The system we have the recurring problems with is: > > o FreeBSD 4.8 > o 3ware 7506-4LP > o 4 x IBM 120GB IC35L120AVVA07 disks > o Tyan 2460 Tiger MP > o 1 GB of Micron ECC RAM > o 2 x AMD Athlon(tm) MP 2000+ > o (I don't have the BIOS rev, the card is out of the system right > now) > >Other systems we've had the problem in: > > o FreeBSD 4.7 > o 3ware 7500-4LP > o 4 x IBM 80GB IC35L080AVVA07 disks > o Tyan 2460 Tiger MP > o 1 GB of Micron ECC RAM > o 2 x AMD Athlon(tm) MP 2000+ > o twe0: 4 ports, Firmware FE7X 1.04.00.024, BIOS BE7X 1.07.02.008 > > > o FreeBSD 4.8 > o 3ware 7450 > o 4 x IBM 75GB DTLA-307075 disks > o SuperMicro P6DBS > o 768 MB of Micron ECC RAM > o 2 x Pentium II 400MHz > o twe0: 4 ports, Firmware FE7X 1.03.09.027, BIOS BE7X 1.07.02.002 >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hardware-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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