From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 2 18:06:26 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8046616A417 for ; Wed, 2 Jan 2008 18:06:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mandrews@bit0.com) Received: from mindcrime.bit0.com (bit0.com [207.246.88.211]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3362313C44B for ; Wed, 2 Jan 2008 18:06:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mandrews@bit0.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.bit0.com [127.0.0.1]) by mindcrime.bit0.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 798E51E33BD; Wed, 2 Jan 2008 13:06:25 -0500 (EST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at bit0.com Received: from mindcrime.bit0.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mindcrime.int.bit0.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id I6dvUO-Kohyo; Wed, 2 Jan 2008 13:06:23 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost.bit0.com [127.0.0.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mindcrime.bit0.com (Postfix) with ESMTP; Wed, 2 Jan 2008 13:06:23 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 13:06:23 -0500 (EST) From: Mike Andrews X-X-Sender: mandrews@mindcrime.int.bit0.com To: Ed Maste In-Reply-To: <20080102174518.GA1755@sandvine.com> Message-ID: <20080102125924.J95613@mindcrime.int.bit0.com> References: <20080102034228.M16861@mindcrime.int.bit0.com> <47A2B2D0-5C67-46A1-BD52-76667C68298F@khera.org> <20080102174518.GA1755@sandvine.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: Vivek Khera , FreeBSD Stable List Subject: Re: aac tool regressions on 7.0-RC1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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, 02 Jan 2008 18:06:26 -0000 On Wed, 2 Jan 2008, Ed Maste wrote: > On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 10:19:15AM -0500, Vivek Khera wrote: > >> On Jan 2, 2008, at 3:54 AM, Mike Andrews wrote: >> >>> Command Error: >> the current AFAAPI.DLL.> >> >> In my experience, this was caused by the firmware rev of the adaptec >> card. Basically, the combination of FreeBSD, amd64, and Adaptec RAID >> cards is a bad thing for production systems, and IMO should be avoided. Well, yeah, the error message would seem to point that way, but this is the newest available firmware (v8208) for this particular card. > In this case it's caused by driver changes obtained from Adaptec's > vendor driver. The original poster found that it broke at a specific > time which suggested some specific changes that could be at fault. > > Aaccli doesn't support Adaptec's latest cards, isn't maintained by them > any longer, and should be deprecated. Arcconf is the tool that will be > supported now, although it does show the behaviour mentioned (hanging > after producing the desired output). Adaptec is aware of the issue but > I don't have any information on a fix. For now I'll recode my Nagios plugin to use arcconf, and maybe hack in a kill of the subprocess when it gets all its output. This is a production box so I can't try a lot of kernels in rapid succession. I might be able to borrow another 2120S from someone else to try on a different box though... I'll see if I can do that today or tomorrow so I can play with different aac driver revs and try to selectively back out parts of the commits from 3 weeks ago. Also, if aaccli is depricated, perhaps the sysutils/aaccli port should say something to that effect when you try to install it? I wouldn't have known arcconf even existed if I hadn't stumbled across a mention of it while Googling. :)