From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Nov 14 14:26:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from magic.adaptec.com (magic.adaptec.com [208.236.45.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3632837B405 for ; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 14:26:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from redfish.adaptec.com (redfish.adaptec.com [162.62.50.11]) by magic.adaptec.com (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA04089; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 14:26:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from btc.btc.adaptec.com (btc.btc.adaptec.com [162.62.64.10]) by redfish.adaptec.com (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA02221; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 14:11:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from btcexc01.btc.adaptec.com (btcexc01 [162.62.147.10]) by btc.btc.adaptec.com (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA25361; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 15:25:59 -0700 (MST) Received: by btcexc01.btc.adaptec.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Wed, 14 Nov 2001 15:26:00 -0700 Message-ID: From: "Long, Scott" To: "'hans@lambermont.dyndns.org'" , "Arthur W. Neilson III" Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: RE: DELL 2550 boxen Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 15:25:59 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You need to update to 4.4-stable. The aac driver that is in 4.4-RELEASE is known to have these kinds of issues. Shortly after 4.4-RELEASE was cut I checked in a new version of the driver that is much more stable. Scott -----Original Message----- From: hans@lambermont.dyndns.org [mailto:hans@lambermont.dyndns.org] Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 3:13 PM To: Arthur W. Neilson III Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DELL 2550 boxen Arthur W. Neilson III wrote: > We are looking at purchasing some DELL 2550 2U rackmount servers, > anyone using these puppies in a production environment with FreeBSD > 4.4 STABLE? Not quite -STABLE, but still interesting I hope: we run a PowerEdge 2550 with 4.4-RC4. Not under heavy load yet, and (thus ? ;-) no production problems yet. But read on. > Searched thru the mailing list archives and saw that some folks had a > bit of trouble with 4.3 recognising the PERC controller. It was recognized without problems : aac0: mem 0xf0000000-0xf7ffffff irq 2 at device 2.1 on pci2 aac0: i960RX 100MHz, 126MB total memory, optional battery present (3) aac0: Kernel 2.5-0, S/N fafaf001379810d2 aacd0: on aac0 When we unplug a drive, the system nicely starts complaining. But when we reinsert the drive the whole thing (=filesystem access) hangs :( We found out that we needed to reboot the system before reinserting the drive. Raid rebuilding then works correctly. You might want to check how this works for you. groetjes, Hans Lambermont -- http://lambermont.webhop.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message