From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 8 20:45:40 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A37F916A4CF for ; Wed, 8 Sep 2004 20:45:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ms-smtp-02.nyroc.rr.com (ms-smtp-02.nyroc.rr.com [24.24.2.56]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AF8343D54 for ; Wed, 8 Sep 2004 20:45:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from martines@rochester.rr.com) Received: from domain.crafts4life.com (roc-66-66-65-30.rochester.rr.com [66.66.65.30])i88KjXMv010609; Wed, 8 Sep 2004 16:45:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost.crafts4life.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by domain.crafts4life.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B55D3FF3; Wed, 8 Sep 2004 16:45:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: from domain.crafts4life.com (localhost.crafts4life.com [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.crafts4life.com (AvMailGate-2.0.1.16) id 75670-48FCB7E1; Wed, 08 Sep 2004 16:45:32 -0400 Received: from sauron.crafts4life.com (sauron.crafts4life.com [192.168.1.247]) by domain.crafts4life.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7499C3FD6; Wed, 8 Sep 2004 16:45:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Eduard Martinescu To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 16:45:31 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 References: <40CD80F1.6020107@mintel.com> <40CDAA9A.1090507@mintel.com> <17b501c495d9$84af2850$0200a8c0@athena> In-Reply-To: <17b501c495d9$84af2850$0200a8c0@athena> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200409081645.31815.martines@rochester.rr.com> X-AntiVirus: checked by AntiVir MailGate (version: 2.0.1.16; AVE: 6.27.0.6; VDF: 6.27.0.50; host: domain.crafts4life.com) X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine cc: vkayshap@amcc.com cc: Jason Thomson cc: so14k@so14k.com Subject: Re: 3ware 7506, FreeBSD 4.x, Maxtor Disks & SMART Problems. X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2004 20:45:40 -0000 If you want to test out the experimental 3ware support in smartmontools, you can check out the CVS version or wait a few days for the 5.33 release (not sure when ports will be updated, however, as this is not a 'stable' release). I have added support for 7xxx series 3ware controllers (/dev/twe*), and I'm currently working on supporting the 9xxx series 3ware controllers (/dev/twa*). Ed On Wednesday 08 September 2004 03:24 pm, Carroll Kong wrote: > Hi, in reference to this > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2004-June/007828.html > > I have a FreeBSD 4.10-p2 system, using a 7450 with 4xMAXTOR 6L080J4 (80 > gig) disks. > > Raid 5 setup. > > Monitor version: ME7X 1.01.00.035 > Firmware version: FE7X 1.05.00.036 > BIOS version: BE7X 1.08.00.044 > > > (Firmware 7.5.3 basically). > > I am also having the same problems you are having. Randomly under heavy > I/O the system will just halt I/O requests. No error messages on the > console, it would just start to hang and halt completely. (no kernel > panics at all). > > I believe I have the same problem you do. Were you able to resolve the > issue or narrow it down? The machine is not local, but I am curious if you > did resolve it, what version of FreeBSD did you have? What firmware? And > did you have to do the powermax testing on all the disks or not? > > I cannot easily do the powermax testing yet, and my firmware is older and I > am still running into this problem (which should have all the twe driver > fixes). > > I tried using "Smartmontools" to verify if the Maxtor disks are okay since > they only work for Linux + 3Ware. > > Thanks in advance! > > > > - Carroll Kong > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"