twa kernel panic under heavy IO

[Jung-uk Kim]

On Thursday 06 October 2005 04:07 pm, Dan Rue wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I am running a 3ware 9500 SATA raid card in a 12x300GB raid 50
> configuration.
>
> Here is dmesg identifying the controller:
> 3ware device driver for 9000 series storage controllers, version:
> 2.50.02.012 twa0: <3ware 9000 series Storage Controller> port
> 0xb800-0xb8ff mem 0xfb800000-0xfbffffff,0xfc5ffc00-0xfc5ffcff irq
> 24 at device 2.0 on pci2 twa0: 12 ports, Firmware FE9X 2.06.00.009,
> BIOS BE9X 2.03.01.051
>
> I was getting occasional kernel panics in 5.4 doing high I/O type
> things (typically an rsync operation).  I was told that twa was
> updated in 5-STABLE, so yesterday I upgraded.  I've attempted an
> rsync twice since the upgrade, both caused a panic.  Here is
> /var/log/messages from just before the reboot last night:
--- >8 --- SNIP!!! --- >8 ---

There's newer vendor driver and firmware.

http://www.3ware.com/support/download.asp

1.  Driver

Select 9550SX series (not 9000 series) and download 9.3.0 version for 
FreeBSD.  It contains newer driver source and binary, which seems to 
work pretty well with 9000 series controllers as well.

2.  Firmware

Select 9000 series and download 9.2.1.1 version, which also seems to 
improve stability.

This driver is directly supported by 3ware.

http://www.3ware.com/support/support.asp

Jung-uk Kim