kernel panic, Areca, 6.2-REL with GENERIC [Was: Re: 6.2-st panic w/ ggate [Was: Re: kernel panic on 6.2-RC2 with GENERIC.]]

[Isaac Levy]

Hi All,

I hate to say, I'm picking up from this thread:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2007-January/ 
031970.html

On Feb 15, 2007, at 11:06 AM, Scott Long wrote:

> I don't see how they could be related.  I've committed a fix for  
> the Areca problem.
>
> Scott

I've reproduced the Areca problem from previous threads this year,  
and was wondering if it's still broken, or if there's anything I'm  
missing?

Here's what happens:
<snip>
Aug 29 01:56:38 greengoose sudo:      ike : TTY=ttyp6 ; PWD=/usr/home/ 
ike ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/sbin/periodic daily
Aug 29 01:57:29 greengoose kernel: g_vfs_done():da2p1[WRITE 
(offset=5998165426176, length=131072)]error = 5
Aug 29 01:57:58 greengoose kernel: g_vfs_done():da0s1f[WRITE 
(offset=27556233216, length=16384)]error = 5
Aug 29 01:57:58 greengoose kernel: g_vfs_done():da0s1f[WRITE 
(offset=27556249600, length=16384)]error = 5
Aug 29 01:57:58 greengoose kernel: g_vfs_done():da0s1f[WRITE 
(offset=27556216832, length=16384)]error = 5
Aug 29 01:57:58 greengoose kernel: g_vfs_done():da0s1f[WRITE 
(offset=27556298752, length=16384)]error = 5
Aug 29 01:57:58 greengoose kernel: g_vfs_done():da0s1f[WRITE 
(offset=27556315136, length=16384)]error = 5
Aug 29 01:57:58 greengoose kernel: g_vfs_done():da0s1f[WRITE 
(offset=27556282368, length=16384)]error = 5
Aug 29 01:57:58 greengoose kernel: g_vfs_done():da0s1f[WRITE 
(offset=27556331520, length=16384)]error = 5
   <repeat around 1710 times>
Aug 29 02:08:50 greengoose kernel: g_vfs_done():da0s1f[WRITE 
(offset=122359873536, length=16384)]error = 5
Aug 29 02:08:50 greengoose kernel: g_vfs_done():da0s1f[WRITE 
(offset=122359889920, length=16384)]error = 5
Aug 29 02:08:50 greengoose kernel: g_vfs_done():da0s1f[WRITE 
(offset=122359939072, length=16384)]error = 5
Aug 29 02:08:50 greengoose kernel: g_vfs_done():da0s1f[WRITE 
(offset=122359955456, length=16384)]error = 5
Aug 29 02:08:50 greengoose kernel: g_vfs_done():da0s1f[WRITE 
(offset=122360086528, length=16384)]error = 5
Aug 29 02:08:50 greengoose kernel: g_vfs_done():da0s1f[WRITE 
(offset=28133228544, length=16384)]error = 5
   <pop goes the kernel>
Aug 29 02:11:40 greengoose syslogd: kernel boot file is /boot/kernel/ 
kernel
<snip>

Here's the specs:
FreeBSD 6.2-REL, i386 GENERIC kernel (installed today [many times over])
da2: <Areca ARC-1160-VOL#02 R001> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-5 device
   (12 chhannel SATA Raid, Maxtor disks, with 'Disable Maxtor' under  
'HDD Read-Ahead Cache' set)

Firmware Version - V1.43 2007-4-17
BOOT ROM Version - V1.41 2006-5-24

Additional info:
   - Volumes are Raid5 and Pass-Through drives
   - Pass-Through drives fail just like the Raid5 volumes do
   - Each time it crashes, disk i/o is SCREAMING'.

--
If I've missed something, please feel free to point me to the url!

But if not, it seems whatever bug in this driver existed, did not go  
away...

(Sidenote: Gotta give a big thanks to the whoever is working on these  
drivers, once you get working with big disks, it takes A LONG TIME to  
figure out what's wrong...  A fsck takes forever...  Not whining,  
actually I'm really meaning to thank the driver writers for wading  
through this thick muck!!!)

Rocket-
.ike