Date: 30 Jun 2005 16:40:07 -0500 From: rand@meridian-enviro.com (Douglas K. Rand) To: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is considered "the best supported" RAID controller for 5.x? Message-ID: <8764vva5hk.fsf@delta.meridian-enviro.com> In-Reply-To: <20050629212908.GG727@funkthat.com> References: <20050617213910.M90456@ganymede.hub.org> <200506180943.j5I9hcOF019234@hugo10.ka.punkt.de> <20050629212908.GG727@funkthat.com>
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JM> Basicly a process will hang in either ffsfsn (fsync induces this JM> write) or getblk (a read), and as far as I can find out, the io JM> just never returns even though the underlying block device JM> continues to work fine.. I know this is probably a stupid answer, but ... Have you upgraded the firmware on the card? We have a number of ICP cards and with the 2.39 firmware we can easily lockup the box with the behavior you explain with a simple buildworld. Upgrading the firmware to 2.44 solves the problem completely for us.
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