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Date:      Mon, 19 Dec 2005 10:45:40 -0600
From:      jmc <jcagle@gmail.com>
To:        Lukas Ertl <le@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: SmartArray 6400: Adapter heartbeat failed
Message-ID:  <6863f0c90512190845h494c9644v8334b1cfca1ae130@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20051219172714.M28071@pcle2.cc.univie.ac.at>
References:  <20051219172714.M28071@pcle2.cc.univie.ac.at>

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That's a very common setup for one of our big customers.  I would first
check your cabling (maybe swap it out with another system?) and then make
sure your 6400 is installed properly -- maybe try another PCI slot?  If
nothing helps, it could be a bad 6400.

Have you used 4.X or 5.X on this same hardware with success?

-- John


On 12/19/05, Lukas Ertl <le@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> Guys,
>
> I'm trying to put FreeBSD 6.0 on a DL380 G3, which has a 14 disk bay
> attached to a SmartArray 6400 (plus two disks on the internal SA 5*
> controller).
>
> I configured 2 RAID5 devices from the 14 disks, plus 1 hot spare for each
> device.
>
> I can newfs several partitions on the RAID5 devices with no problem, but
> as soon as I do some serious I/O on these filesystems, the kernel croaks
> "ciss1: ADAPTER HEARTBEAT FAILED", and then the whole box is practically
> paralized (ping works, but everything disk related just hangs), so a powe=
r
> cycle is required.
>
> Any idea what's up here?  Broken hardware maybe?
>
> regards,
> le
>
> --
> Lukas Ertl                         http://homepage.univie.ac.at/l.ertl/
> le@FreeBSD.org                     http://people.freebsd.org/~le/



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