3ware 7506, FreeBSD 4.x, Maxtor Disks & SMART Problems.

[Eduard Martinescu]

If you want to test out the experimental 3ware support in smartmontools, you 
can check out the CVS version or wait a few days for the 5.33 release (not 
sure when ports will be updated, however, as this is not a 'stable' release).

I have added support for 7xxx series 3ware controllers (/dev/twe*), and I'm 
currently working on supporting the 9xxx series 3ware controllers 
(/dev/twa*).

Ed
On Wednesday 08 September 2004 03:24 pm, Carroll Kong wrote:
> Hi, in reference to this
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2004-June/007828.html
>
> I have a FreeBSD 4.10-p2 system, using a 7450 with 4xMAXTOR 6L080J4  (80
> gig) disks.
>
> Raid 5 setup.
>
>       Monitor version: ME7X 1.01.00.035
>       Firmware version: FE7X 1.05.00.036
>       BIOS version: BE7X 1.08.00.044
>
>
> (Firmware 7.5.3 basically).
>
> I am also having the same problems you are having.  Randomly under heavy
> I/O the system will just halt I/O requests.  No error messages on the
> console, it would just start to hang and halt completely.  (no kernel
> panics at all).
>
> I believe I have the same problem you do.  Were you able to resolve the
> issue or narrow it down?  The machine is not local, but I am curious if you
> did resolve it, what version of FreeBSD did you have?  What firmware?  And
> did you have to do the powermax testing on all the disks or not?
>
> I cannot easily do the powermax testing yet, and my firmware is older and I
> am still running into this problem (which should have all the twe driver
> fixes).
>
> I tried using "Smartmontools" to verify if the Maxtor disks are okay since
> they only work for Linux + 3Ware.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
>
>
> - Carroll Kong
>
>
>
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