gmirror problem with HP Proliant ML110 G5

[Josep Pujadas i Jubany]

On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:32:12 +0200, Ivan Voras wrote
> Josep Pujadas i Jubany wrote:
> > On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:56:47 +0200, Ivan Voras wrote
> >> It looks like a hardware failure, either:
> >> - bad drive
> >> - bad cables
> >> - bad or insufficiently powerful power supply
> >>
> >> What controller are you using?
> > 
> > # pciconf -lv
> > 
> > atapci0 at pci0:0:31:2:    class=0x01018a card=0x31f4103c chip=0x29208086 
> > rev=0x02 hdr=0x00
> >     vendor     = 'Intel Corporation'
> >     device     = '82801IB/IR/IH (ICH9 Family) 4 port Serial ATA Storage 
> > Controller 1'
> 
> Ah it's ICH9. I remember reading about problems with that chipset on 
> the lists - apparently it's not well supported by the drivers. 
> Search the archives for more data.

Hello!

I searched for ICH9 incidences but they seem to be before the 7.0 RELEASE 
issue ...

On the other hand, after 29 hours doing:

# dd if=/dev/ad0 of=/dev/ad2

488397168+0 records in
488397168+0 records out
250059350016 bytes transferred in 100693.444175 secs (2483373 bytes/sec)

I repeated:

# gmirror insert gm0 /dev/ad2

and it worked:

# grep GEOM_MIRROR /var/log/messages

Apr 21 11:23:52 mail_2 kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0: rebuilding provider 
ad2
Apr 21 12:42:11 mail_2 kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0: rebuilding provider 
ad2 finished.

# gmirror list

Geom name: gm0
State: COMPLETE
Components: 2
Balance: round-robin
Slice: 4096
Flags: NONE
GenID: 2
SyncID: 1
ID: 3158875707
Providers:
1. Name: mirror/gm0
   Mediasize: 250059349504 (233G)
   Sectorsize: 512
   Mode: r6w6e7
Consumers:
1. Name: ad0
   Mediasize: 250059350016 (233G)
   Sectorsize: 512
   Mode: r1w1e1
   State: ACTIVE
   Priority: 0
   Flags: NONE
   GenID: 2
   SyncID: 1
   ID: 3364120727
2. Name: ad2
   Mediasize: 250059350016 (233G)
   Sectorsize: 512
   Mode: r1w1e1
   State: ACTIVE
   Priority: 0
   Flags: NONE
   GenID: 2
   SyncID: 1
   ID: 3036867374

Now my problem is that I'm not felling sure with this machine & operating 
system ...

Does any way to make an stressing test to the disks?

I want to be sure before putting the machine at production level ...

Thanks,

Josep Pujadas