From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 26 18:11:46 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 75C4E16A4CE for ; Mon, 26 Jan 2004 18:11:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from thunderbird.etv.net (thunderbird.etv.net [208.14.190.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2D8E43D9E for ; Mon, 26 Jan 2004 18:08:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from efinleywork@efinley.com) Received: from [205.161.203.55] (helo=elliotdevelop) by thunderbird.etv.net with smtp (Exim 4.30; FreeBSD) id 1AlId1-000KZm-PB; Mon, 26 Jan 2004 19:06:59 -0700 Message-ID: <0dc101c3e47a$3f6e6b90$37cba1cd@emerytelcom.com> From: "Elliot Finley" To: , "Tobias" References: <6.0.1.1.2.20031209160743.023fa910@jolt.nu> Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 19:06:54 -0700 Organization: Emery Telcom MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Subject: Re: Problem with large amounts of IDE drives X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Elliot Finley List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 02:11:46 -0000 If you end up switching controllers, you should consider 3ware. I'm currently running 17 IDE drives in one of my systems. I'm running the first off the motherboard and the remaining 16 off the 3ware 8-port SATA controllers. Elliot ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tobias" To: Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 8:30 AM Subject: Problem with large amounts of IDE drives > Has anyone except me had trouble (or success) running 16 or more IDE drives > on 4.8-RELEASE? > > Currently we run perf on 14 drives, 2 connected to motherboard ide and 12 > connected to 2 HighPoint Tech RocketRaid 454. The 454 has no native driver > for freebsd as of yet and we are told by hpt to run it using the 404's driver. > > We ran perf with 18 drives about one week ago, and after we mounted the > last 4 (raided that is) it worked fine for like half an hour or maybe a > whole hour then it locked the mount point. It's not reported in any logs > and the hpt374.status sysctl that is set reports no trouble neither. I'm > thinking that it might be a driver problem but I don't see why it ONLY > occurs when we have the raid mounted... never if we have 1 or 2 out of 3 > mounted. But as soon as all drives are mounted. > Oh yeah, it doesn't matter which raid we mount as the last... it's always > the LAST one mounted that f00bars... > > The computer has a 550W PSU so power should not really be a problem. Nor > does it have any i/o to talk about... I'd say in a given day it reads about > 50gig and writes about 10-30gig. > Any clues? :o) > > dmesg follows for perf > Copyright (c) 1992-2003 The FreeBSD Project. > Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 > The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. > FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE #1: Sat Dec 6 12:32:45 GMT 2003 > c4@perf:/usr/src/sys/compile/perf > Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz > CPU: Intel Pentium III (863.87-MHz 686-class CPU) > Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x68a Stepping = 10 > Features=0x383f9ff > real memory = 535560192 (523008K bytes) > avail memory = 515723264 (503636K bytes) > Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc053c000. > Preloaded elf module "hpt374.ko" at 0xc053c09c. > Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled > md0: Malloc disk > Using $PIR table, 12 entries at 0xc00f2c00 > npx0: on motherboard > npx0: INT 16 interface > pcib0: on motherboard > pci0: on pcib0 > agp0: mem > 0xffa80000-0xffafffff,0xf8000000-0xfbffffff irq 11 at device 2.0 on pci0 > pcib1: at device 30.0 on pci0 > pci1: on pcib1 > hpt3740: port > 0xde00-0xdeff,0xdf54-0xdf57,0xdf58-0xdf5f,0xdf7c-0xdf7f,0xdf60-0xdf67 irq 9 > at device 9.0 on pci1 > hpt3741: port > 0xd000-0xd0ff,0xdf80-0xdf83,0xdf68-0xdf6f,0xdf84-0xdf87,0xdf88-0xdf8f irq 9 > at device 9.1 on pci1 > xl0: <3Com 3c905B-TX Fast Etherlink XL> port 0xdc00-0xdc7f mem > 0xff8dfc00-0xff8dfc7f irq 10 at device 11.0 on pci1 > xl0: Ethernet address: 00:10:5a:a5:0a:fc > miibus0: on xl0 > xlphy0: <3Com internal media interface> on miibus0 > xlphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto > hpt3742: port > 0xd400-0xd4ff,0xdf98-0xdf9b,0xdf90-0xdf97,0xdf9c-0xdf9f,0xdfa0-0xdfa7 irq 9 > at device 13.0 on pci1 > hpt3743: port > 0xd800-0xd8ff,0xdfe0-0xdfe3,0xdfa8-0xdfaf,0xdfe4-0xdfe7,0xdff0-0xdff7 irq 9 > at device 13.1 on pci1 > isab0: at device 31.0 on pci0 > isa0: on isab0 > atapci0: port 0xffa0-0xffaf at device 31.1 > on pci0 > ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 > ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0 > uhci0: port 0xef40-0xef5f > irq 7 at device 31.2 on pci0 > usb0: on uhci0 > usb0: USB revision 1.0 > uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 > uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered > pci0: (vendor=0x8086, dev=0x2443) at 31.3 irq 3 > uhci1: port 0xef80-0xef9f > irq 10 at device 31.4 on pci0 > usb1: on uhci1 > usb1: USB revision 1.0 > uhub1: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 > uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered > orm0: