Problems with High Point Tech RocketRaid 1640

[John Barbieri]

Good evening.

Recently I setup a free bsd 5.3-amd64 box with dual opterons and 1GB of ram.


I constructed a RAID 5 array using the HPT rocketraid 1640, conisiting 
of 4 disks, each with 200GB capacity.


Everything worked well, until I installed and ran Samba from the ports 
collection.


Now, apparently whenever I transfer with samba, the computer freezes for 
a few moments, then an array comes back, stating:

Mar 24 13:14:12 tie kernel: hpt374: Device removed: controller 1 channel 3
Mar 24 13:14:12 tie kernel: hpt374: Device removed: controller 1 channel 1



The weird thing is, I transferred over 15GB of data over FTP, but the 
second I used Samba (which is usually faster, which is why i switched to 
it), the controller stated the two drives disconnected.


How come I can transfer 15GB one way, and nothing the other?

Now my RAID array is broken, and I lost all the data on it (which is ok, 
since I have it backed up). But this is my 2nd time doing this today, 
thinking maybe the first time was a fluke.


info:

FreeBSD tie.jbarbieri.net 5.3-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p5 #1: Wed 
Mar 23 21:01:23 EST 2005 
John at tie.jbarbieri.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/TIE  amd64

pkg_info:

autoconf-2.13.000227_5 Automatically configure source code on many Un*x 
platforms
automake-1.4.6_1    GNU Standards-compliant Makefile generator (legacy 
version
cvsup-without-gui-16.1h General network file distribution system 
optimized for CVS
gettext-0.14.1      GNU gettext package
gmake-3.80_2        GNU version of 'make' utility
libiconv-1.9.2_1    A character set conversion library
libtool-1.3.5_2     Generic shared library support script (version 1.3)
libtool-1.5.10_1    Generic shared library support script (version 1.5)
linux_base-8-8.0_6  Base set of packages needed in Linux mode (only for 
i386)
m4-1.4.1            GNU m4
perl-5.8.5          Practical Extraction and Report Language
popt-1.7            A getopt(3) like library with a number of 
enhancements, fro
rpm-3.0.6_9         The Red Hat Package Manager
samba-2.2.12        A free SMB and CIFS client and server for UNIX


as you can see, not much installed. I just rebuilt this box last night 
as well

If you have any ideas, please let me know. If you need more info, let me 
know.


Thank you in advanced

John Barbieri