From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 31 20:12:27 2005 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 43E7D16A4CE for ; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 20:12:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: from gen129.n001.c02.escapebox.net (gen129.n001.c02.escapebox.net [213.73.91.129]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE0F243D39 for ; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 20:12:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gemini@geminix.org) Message-ID: <424C59A6.2050605@geminix.org> Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 22:12:22 +0200 From: Uwe Doering Organization: Private UNIX Site User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050326 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Don Bowman References: <2BCEB9A37A4D354AA276774EE13FB8C23A6903@mailserver.sandvine.com> In-Reply-To: <2BCEB9A37A4D354AA276774EE13FB8C23A6903@mailserver.sandvine.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Received: from gemini by geminix.org with asmtp (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 3.36 #1) id 1DH61g-0009It-00; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 22:12:24 +0200 cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adaptec 3210S, 4.9-STABLE, corruption when disk fails X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 20:12:27 -0000 Don Bowman wrote: > From: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org > >>From: Uwe Doering [mailto:gemini@geminix.org] ... >> >>>>Did you merge 1.3.2.3 as well? This actually should have >>> >>>been one MFC >> >>Yes, merged from RELENG_4. >> >>I will post later if this happens again, but it will be quite >>a long time. The machine has 7 drives in it, there are only >>3 ones left old enough they might fail before I take it out >>of service (it originally had 7 1999-era IBM drives, now >>it has 4 2004-era seagate drives and 3 of the old IBM's. >>The drives have been in continuous service, so they've lead >>a pretty good life!) >> >>Thanks for the suggestion on the cam timeout, I've set that >>value. > > Another drive failed and the same thing happened. > After the failure, the raid worked in degrade mode just > fine, but many files had been corrupted during the failure. > > So I would suggest that this merge did not help, and the > cam timeout did not help either. > > This is very frustrating, again I rebuild my postgresql install > from backup :( This is indeed unfortunate. Maybe the problem is in fact located neither in PostgreSQL nor in FreeBSD but in the controller itself. Does it have the latest firmware? The necessary files should be available on Adaptec's website, and you can use the 'raidutil' program under FreeBSD to upload the firmware to the controller. I have to concede, however, that I never did this under FreeBSD myself. If I recall correctly I did the upload via a DOS diskette the last time. If this doesn't help either you could ask Adaptec's support for help. You need to register the controller first, if memory serves. Uwe -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed On-Demand UNIX Servers gemini@geminix.org | http://www.escapebox.net