Adaptec 2400A update
Karl Pielorz
kpielorz at tdx.co.uk
Thu Jul 31 12:29:47 PDT 2003
--On 31 July 2003 14:04 -0500 "Kung Foo Ham[p]?ster"
<freebsd at kungfoohampster.com> wrote:
> I also have an Adaptec 2400A RAID controller and have problems when my
> system seems to be having a lot of random hard disk accesses.
Hi,
We have a 2400A in a heavily loaded 'backup' machine at the office (i.e.
lots of large IDE drives, storing backups from all the other machines until
they're spooled to tape) - it's often gzip'ing and storing the data from
several machines simultaneously, all across a 100Mbit LAN.
We've never [touch wood] had any problems with it so far...
> For a while I've thought that it could be my system over heating. But
> when my machine overheats it just powers off abruptly.
I'd be a bit concerned if any machine I'd been using, ever actually had to
shut itself down for thermal reasons [unless it was, actually faulty].
Remember - weird things can happen before it gets to the 'critical' level
set by the motherboard [unless it's been set really, really pessimistically
in the BIOS].
> I have been searching the groups and mail archives for almost a year now.
> I can only find posts with similar problems but no resolution. Your
> post appears to be closer to my problems than others. There seems to be
> a small handful of ppl who have mentioned this problem.
I'll agree - I don't particularly like the 2400A - we have a bunch of 3ware
controllers as well, which seem better supported in FreeBSD, and 3ware
themselves seem to be more open-source/OS friendly, but we've never had any
real problems with the 2400A.
> if you managed to read through my ramblings. Thanks! I hope more people
> will come out and discuss more about the 2400A. Even those of you who
> have stable systems! I would definitley like to know what kind of
> hardware and software specs you have. (especially if FreeBSD-5.0 works
> better with this card due to UFS2 or device drivers or what not.. i
> really have no idea)
The hardware we have it on here is a lowly ASUS K7VML, running FreeBSD
4.8-STABLE w/784Mb of RAM. The CPU is an AMD Athlon 2000.
I can post you it's dmesg output off list if that might be remotely helpful
- but just to let you know, there is at least the odd 2400A based system
out there running under heavy load :)
Regards,
-Karl
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