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

[Carroll Kong]

Nevermind, I forgot i needed to use twed0, ugh.  It seems to work, it says
it passes all the basic SMART tests, I should probably get it to run some
self-tests if possible.

Thanks!



- Carroll Kong
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carroll Kong" <me at carrollkong.com>
To: "Eduard Martinescu" <martines at rochester.rr.com>;
<freebsd-stable at freebsd.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 6:22 PM
Subject: Re: 3ware 7506, FreeBSD 4.x, Maxtor Disks & SMART Problems.


> I installed autoconf2.59, automake1.8 and compiled the CVS version using
> gmake.
>
> I got this error when I ran this command.
>
> saint# ./smartctl -a -d 3ware,0 /dev/twe0
> smartctl version 5.33 [i386-unknown-freebsd4.10] Copyright (C) 2002-4
Bruce
> Allen
> Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
>
> Smartctl open device: /dev/twe0 failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
>
> This is the same error I got with version 5.3.0. (install via freebsd
ports)
> I am using a pretty old firmware, do yuo think that might be it?  Or is it
> possible this only works with FreeBSD 5.x?
>
>
>
> - Carroll Kong
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Eduard Martinescu" <martines at rochester.rr.com>
> To: <freebsd-stable at freebsd.org>
> Cc: "Carroll Kong" <me at carrollkong.com>; "Jason Thomson"
> <jason.thomson at mintel.com>; <so14k at so14k.com>; <vkayshap at amcc.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 4:45 PM
> Subject: Re: 3ware 7506, FreeBSD 4.x, Maxtor Disks & SMART Problems.
>
>
> > 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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