From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 25 02:20:38 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AE3F16A41A for ; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 02:20:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsilver@chrononomicon.com) Received: from trans-warp.net (hyperion.trans-warp.net [216.37.208.37]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F283813C47E for ; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 02:20:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsilver@chrononomicon.com) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (unverified [65.193.73.208]) by trans-warp.net (SurgeMail 3.8f2) with ESMTP id 136313368-1860479 for multiple; Mon, 24 Sep 2007 22:05:26 -0400 Message-ID: <46F86CC0.7030805@chrononomicon.com> Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 22:04:48 -0400 From: Bart Silverstrim User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.13 (X11/20070824) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ted Mittelstaedt References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authenticated-User: bsilver@chrononomicon.com Cc: Chris Boyd , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Update on data corruption with Tyan/3Ware X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 02:20:38 -0000 Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > 3ware is supported by the manufacturer - what do they say? > > Ted > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Chris Boyd >> Sent: Monday, September 24, 2007 2:54 PM >> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >> Subject: Update on data corruption with Tyan/3Ware >> >> >> Here's an update on my odd problem. Thanks to Don B for some hints >> that helped us start looking in a better directions. >> >> System is a Tyan Thunder K8SE motherboard with dual Opteron 250 >> 2.4GHz CPUs and a 3Ware 9550SX-4LP PCI Express four port RAID >> controller running in RAID 5. Disks are 4x Seagate 500GB SATA. 4GB >> Memory. >> >> Latest BIOS and firmware on mobo and RAID controller. >> >> FreeBSD 6.2 AMD64 with all patches as of 9-21-2007 >> >> We've narrowed the problem down to files that are > 4GB. Anytime we >> have a file that's > 4GB, we get inconsistent checksums, can't >> uncompress it, etc. Files < 4GB are fine. >> >> So is this a RAID controller issue? A filesystem problem? All hints >> appreciated. How are you getting the files on the system? Network transfer? Direct copy from a disc? What filesystem is it you're using? 3ware is well supported under Linux, from what I can tell and what I've experienced, and can't imagine that a manufacturer with a good track record of driver support for Linux for so long would not support FreeBSD as well.