From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 11 21:36:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sanson.reyes.somos.net (freyes.static.inch.com [216.223.199.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A935337B422 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 21:36:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zoraida.reyes.somos.net (zoraida.reyes.somos.net [10.0.0.15]) by sanson.reyes.somos.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA29085; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 00:26:55 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from fran@reyes.somos.net) Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 00:39:28 -0400 (EDT) From: Francisco Reyes To: Bruce Pea Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3Ware 6400 Error In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Bruce Pea wrote: >trying to setup a 3Ware 6400 controller using FBSD v4.1. > > The array (4 30G drives setup as raid10) gets created without any problem > and the FBSD install cd boots up fine. I go through the I recommend you build your array. Start install up to the point where you lable the drives, but don't get out. have the machine open and look at the lights. Let the controller initialize the array. This can take long hours on a big array. I just left it run overnight. I also recommend that once all is done (i.e. the lights stopped blinking) that you start out on the controller lightly. Do some small operations. Keep an eye on the lights if they go off for a while even though you are doing little, then there is a chance that the array had not finished initializing. I had a couple of problems and it took me almost 3 days to get a 6400 initilized (mostly leaving it run overnight the init). Once it seemed like init was done I bombarded the raids (one Raid 1 and one Raid 0) with 10 concurrent large bonnies, a cvsup of stable and another one of ports. It handled the load with no problems. I plan to continue stress testing the machine for a few days before going on limited production with it. The initialization issue is a known bug and work is been done to fix it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message