LSI Logic raid status

[Peter Ankerstål]

On Mar 24, 2009, at 8:20 PM, Scott Long wrote:

> Peter Ankerstål wrote:
>> On Mar 24, 2009, at 8:00 PM, Charles Sprickman wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> dev.mpt.0.nonoptimal_volumes: 0
>>>
>>> Don't test whether the "nonoptimal_volumes" parameter works, it  
>>> does -
>>> but if you pull a drive, FreeBSD likes to panic both on the loss  
>>> of a disk
>>> and then again when the drive is reconnected and the rebuild  
>>> completes.
>>> This is apparently some problem in the CAM layer, not the mpt  
>>> driver, but
>>> it's something to be aware of.  Scott Long has noted that this is  
>>> being
>>> worked on in 8.x.
>> Yes, I tried to remove a drive today. Of course I need to see if it  
>> works properly
>> before using it "for real". It did, but just as you say it paniced  
>> when I pulled the
>> drive and when is was resynced. But it sound great if someone is  
>> working on
>> this problem!
>
> The instability during a rebuild should be fixed in 7.2 (and 7- 
> stable as
> of about the last month).  If you can, please update your sources and
> let me know if it helps.
>
> As for actually monitoring and configuring arrays, that work is in
> progress.
>
> Scott

Im running RELENG_7 cvsuped and built like 15 hours ago. I still have  
this problem.
Please come back to me if you want some additional information about  
the setup.

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Peter Ankerstål
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