asr monitoring

[Mike Tancsa]

This is really odd. We have quite a few cards deployed on FreeBSD and
have none of these problems.  Which 3ware cards are you using ? What
is the firmware  rev ?

---Mike

On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 21:56:04 -0600, in sentex.lists.freebsd.hardware
you wrote:

>Simon> Please do share your unhappy experience with 3ware.
>
>We've had one troublesome system, running supported IBM disks (120 GB
>IC35L120AVVA07 disks) where we have repeated drive timeout errors, and
>recently the mirror sets (we're running 4 disks in a RAID-10) get out
>of sync. I had it once where the system was still stable (kind of at
>least) and an MD5 checksum of a large file would come up different,
>but always one of two values. I did the "verify array" operation at
>the BIOS, and it found "an unknown error". (If its unknow, how can it
>be an error?) This causes the volume to be initialized, and then my
>MD5 checksum is always the same.
>
>We just had one of our MySQL servers die with a corrupted page in the
>database, ran the verify array on that system, and again we got the
>unknown error. (This system also has supported disks, the IBM 80 GB
>IC35L080AVVA07.)
>
>I'm really getting worried now with the mirror sets getting out of
>sync, this is not a good thing at all. 
>
>The rumor mill has 3ware supporting FreeBSD directly with their 7.7
>release of drivers, so I'll probably try that when it happens. 
>
>simon> 3ware can email you if something goes wrong, no need to watch
>simon> syslog.
>
>Right, I guess I just like the syslog approach, it works even if 3dmd
>isn't working, or the system is so borked it can't send email, in
>which case it probably can't send a syslog message either.  :(
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