Problems with High Point Tech RocketRaid 1640

[John Barbieri]

Turns out this happens on the i386 version, AND on FreeBSD 4.9. 

Im lost on what to do now. Is there any other program like Samba I could 
try?


It only seems to happen when transferring with Samba too :(


Thanks again

John


Thomas M. Skeren III wrote:

> Hey John...
>
> Had many problems with operations and the amd 64 kernel.  I switched 
> to the i386 kernel and have had no problems.
>
> John Barbieri wrote:
>
>> Good evening.
>>
>> Recently I setup a free bsd 5.3-amd64 box with dual opterons and 1GB 
>> of ram.
>>
>>
>> I constructed a RAID 5 array using the HPT rocketraid 1640, 
>> conisiting of 4 disks, each with 200GB capacity.
>>
>>
>> Everything worked well, until I installed and ran Samba from the 
>> ports collection.
>>
>>
>> Now, apparently whenever I transfer with samba, the computer freezes 
>> for a few moments, then an array comes back, stating:
>>
>> Mar 24 13:14:12 tie kernel: hpt374: Device removed: controller 1 
>> channel 3
>> Mar 24 13:14:12 tie kernel: hpt374: Device removed: controller 1 
>> channel 1
>>
>>
>>
>> The weird thing is, I transferred over 15GB of data over FTP, but the 
>> second I used Samba (which is usually faster, which is why i switched 
>> to it), the controller stated the two drives disconnected.
>>
>>
>> How come I can transfer 15GB one way, and nothing the other?
>>
>> Now my RAID array is broken, and I lost all the data on it (which is 
>> ok, since I have it backed up). But this is my 2nd time doing this 
>> today, thinking maybe the first time was a fluke.
>>
>>
>> info:
>>
>> FreeBSD tie.jbarbieri.net 5.3-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p5 #1: 
>> Wed Mar 23 21:01:23 EST 2005 
>> John at tie.jbarbieri.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/TIE  amd64
>>
>> pkg_info:
>>
>> autoconf-2.13.000227_5 Automatically configure source code on many 
>> Un*x platforms
>> automake-1.4.6_1    GNU Standards-compliant Makefile generator 
>> (legacy version
>> cvsup-without-gui-16.1h General network file distribution system 
>> optimized for CVS
>> gettext-0.14.1      GNU gettext package
>> gmake-3.80_2        GNU version of 'make' utility
>> libiconv-1.9.2_1    A character set conversion library
>> libtool-1.3.5_2     Generic shared library support script (version 1.3)
>> libtool-1.5.10_1    Generic shared library support script (version 1.5)
>> linux_base-8-8.0_6  Base set of packages needed in Linux mode (only 
>> for i386)
>> m4-1.4.1            GNU m4
>> perl-5.8.5          Practical Extraction and Report Language
>> popt-1.7            A getopt(3) like library with a number of 
>> enhancements, fro
>> rpm-3.0.6_9         The Red Hat Package Manager
>> samba-2.2.12        A free SMB and CIFS client and server for UNIX
>>
>>
>> as you can see, not much installed. I just rebuilt this box last 
>> night as well
>>
>> If you have any ideas, please let me know. If you need more info, let 
>> me know.
>>
>>
>> Thank you in advanced
>>
>> John Barbieri
>>
>>
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