Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 13:38:44 -0700 From: Ken Gunderson <kgunders@teamcool.net> To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: major pita w/LSI Tyan TA26 combo Message-ID: <20060303133844.451cb4f7.kgunders@teamcool.net>
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Greets Folks: Been there and done that w/this before but I'm exasperated and don't know where to go from here. Anyways, system details: FreeBSD 5.4 and 6.0 Tyan TA26 <http://www.tyan.com/products/html/ta26b2882.html>; 2 x Opteron 252 4 x 1GB DDR400 ECC Registered Ram LSI 320-2x and LSI 320-1 Fujitsu U320 SCSI drives, both 10K and 15K rpm Problem: Create an array, subject it to some moderate I/O and the logical drive becomes "degraded" w/a "failed" drive. The logical drive cannot be rebuilt. The physical drive is in fact fine, e.g. can format and consistency check. Same problem if swap in a different drive, etc., e.g.: megarc -ldInfo -a0 -L2 ********************************************************************** MEGARC MegaRAID Configuration Utility(FreeBSD)-1.04 (03-02-2005) By LSI Logic Corp.,USA ********************************************************************** [Note: For SATA-2, 4 and 6 channel controllers, please specify Ch=0 Id=0..15 for specifying physical drive(Ch=channel, Id=Target)] Type ? as command line arg for help Finding Devices On Each MegaRAID Adapter... Scanning Ha 0, Chnl 1 Target 15 *******Information Of Logical Drive 2******* Logical Drive : 2( Adapter: 0 ): Status: DEGRADED --------------------------------------------------- SpanDepth :03 RaidLevel: 1 RdAhead : No Cache: DirectIo StripSz :128KB Stripes : 2 WrPolicy: WriteThru Logical Drive 2 : SpanLevel_0 Disks Chnl Target StartBlock Blocks Physical Target Status ---- ------ ---------- ------ ---------------------- 0 01 0x00000000 0x0447c000 ONLINE 0 02 0x00000000 0x0447c000 ONLINE Logical Drive 2 : SpanLevel_1 Disks Chnl Target StartBlock Blocks Physical Target Status ---- ------ ---------- ------ ---------------------- 0 03 0x00000000 0x0447c000 ONLINE 1 04 0x00000000 0x0447c000 FAILED Logical Drive 2 : SpanLevel_2 Disks Chnl Target StartBlock Blocks Physical Target Status ---- ------ ---------- ------ ---------------------- 1 14 0x00000000 0x0447c000 ONLINE 1 15 0x00000000 0x0447c000 ONLINE Autorebuild is on, but not able to rebuild, even from w/in LSI BIOS. Tyan ran tests and concluded that it works fine on Win32 so the problem is therefore not their problem... LSI has been a LOT more cooperative but apparently not able to reproduce the problem. That's funny because I've been able to reproduce the problem on 3 DIFFERENT TA26's!! The issue w/one involved a 320-1 and a simple 2 drive RAID1 mirror that puked under moderate I/O load, e.g. build/install world. Upgrading to a 320-2x seems to have solved the problem. That particular machine is also using 10K drives and RAID5. Transfers of approx. 100-500MB from a RAID1 volume to the RAID5 volume don't seem to cause problem but I'm afraid to stress test it more than that. The 320-2x LSI sent me sports the latest "Tundra" chips. The system detailed above has older chips, fwiw. To summarize, Tyan's position is that FreeBSD is an unsupported OS and that it's a driver issue. Well, I've already tested w/Scott's latest and greatest amr (at least as of a couple months ago). I've also been using FBSD for many years and have great confidenc in it so I'm inclined not to swallow Tyan's driver line. I also see other's having issues w/Adaptec cards, etc. Does anybody have ideas and/or receommend anything that actually works?!?! TIA-- -- Best regards, Ken Gunderson Q: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. A: Why is putting a reply at the top of the message frowned upon?
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