3Ware SATA RAID 8000 - Supported on 5.3-R?

Jonathan M. Slivko freebsd-lists at slivko.org
Tue May 24 08:02:07 PDT 2005


Yes, this is actually the autoboot fsck thats breaking, the one that is 
called from /etc/rc (via /etc/rc.d/). I can physically take the box down 
and do an offline fsck of it and that works fine, it's just when it's in 
multi-user mode thats the problem.

-- Jonathan

Franco Bruno Borghesi wrote:
> For fsck to work (to actually correct any problems you may have), 
> partitions should be umounted first. Are you sure you have umounted 
> /dev/twedXXXX before running fsck?
> 
> 
> 2005/5/24, Jonathan M. Slivko <freebsd-lists at slivko.org 
> <mailto:freebsd-lists at slivko.org>>:
> 
>     Hello,
> 
>     I have an interesting question, I have a Pentium 4 2.4Ghz (No HT
>     Enabled),
>     2x80GB SATA Hard Drives in RAID 1. The box boots, works, etc. However,
>     whenever you try and do an fsck -y, it says:
> 
>     root at bonjour (~)% fsck -y
>     ** /dev/twed0s1a (NO WRITE)
>     ** Last Mounted on /
>     ** Root file system
>     ** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes
>     ** Phase 2 - Check Pathnames
>     ** Phase 3 - Check Connectivity
>     ** Phase 4 - Check Reference Counts
>     ** Phase 5 - Check Cyl groups
>     2821 files, 31805 used, 474682 free (322 frags, 59295 blocks, 0.1%
>     fragmentation)
> 
>     ** /dev/twed0s1g (NO WRITE)
>     ** Last Mounted on /home
>     ** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes
>     ** Phase 2 - Check Pathnames
>     ** Phase 3 - Check Connectivity
>     ** Phase 4 - Check Reference Counts
>     ** Phase 5 - Check Cyl groups
>     82057 files, 557735 used, 12912399 free (2343 frags, 1613757 blocks,
>     0.0%
>     fragmentation)
> 
>     ** /dev/twed0s1d (NO WRITE)
>     ** Last Mounted on /tmp
>     ** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes
>     ** Phase 2 - Check Pathnames
>     ** Phase 3 - Check Connectivity
>     ** Phase 4 - Check Reference Counts
>     ** Phase 5 - Check Cyl groups
>     30 files, 1787 used, 504700 free (20 frags, 63085 blocks, 0.0%
>     fragmentation)
> 
>     ** /dev/twed0s1e (NO WRITE)
>     ** Last Mounted on /usr
>     ** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes
>     ** Phase 2 - Check Pathnames
>     ** Phase 3 - Check Connectivity
>     ** Phase 4 - Check Reference Counts
>     ** Phase 5 - Check Cyl groups
>     251160 files, 1318908 used, 13912410 free (73346 frags, 1729883 blocks,
>     0.5% fragmentation)
> 
>     ** /dev/twed0s1f (NO WRITE)
>     ** Last Mounted on /var
>     ** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes
>     ** Phase 2 - Check Pathnames
>     ** Phase 3 - Check Connectivity
>     ** Phase 4 - Check Reference Counts
>     ** Phase 5 - Check Cyl groups
>     4424 files, 63321 used, 7042830 free (2462 frags, 880046 blocks, 0.0%
>     fragmentation)
> 
>     The drives are Seagate SATA's (7200RPM) with a 3Ware SATA RAID
>     Controller
>     (8006-2LP) using the twe kernel driver. The drives themselves allow data
>     to be read to/written from them, but fsck will not work (and is hanging
>     things on boot).
> 
>     Anyone got any ideas? I looked at www.3ware.com
>     <http://www.3ware.com> earlier and it says that
>     the 8006-2LP's support FreeBSD 4.x, but not 5.x - could this be a result
>     of that, seeing as otherwise the drives/RAID work fine (AFAIK, it could
>     not be and I'm just not sure how to test it).
> 
>     TIA,
>     -- Jonathan
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