Problem with SATA/SAS 5iR

[Kevin Smith]

2009/2/12 Richard Tector <richardtector at thekeelecentre.com>

> Kevin Smith wrote:
>
>> Thanks for your advice, this was unusual for me, because even on a 4iR I
>> couldnt see this space reservation.
>>
>> What about sysinstalls write error when extracting the ports collection?
>>
>
> Bad install media perhaps? Have you encountered any other issues?
>
> Richard
>


Reinstalled the box just for kicks, and now the media was an FTP site, it
looks like the culprit was the optical drive which is an Optiarc AD-5200A,
using a CD and a DVD both gave me the error, now it went down alright, using
the optical only for booting up.

Just another thing, can you change or monitor the behaviour of this spare
space reservation? Looking into man mpt gave nothing useful regarding this
issue.

Adding hw.mpt.enable_sata_wc to the loader conf made everything much faster,
before that the computer used the disks all the time.

Thank you for your help Richard,

Best Regards,
B.