Promise SATA controller issues...

[Alexander Motin]

George Kontostanos wrote:
> I have a Promise PDC40718 SATA300 controller running on a box from
> 8.0-Release since now now on 8.2-Stable 8.2-STABLE FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE #3:
> Thu Apr 21 15:23:08 EEST 2011. The controller is in jbod mode with 3 WD
> drives in Raidz1.
> 
> ad6: 610480MB <WDC WD6401AALS-00J7B1 05.00K05> at ata3-master UDMA100 SATA
> 3Gb/s
> ad8: 610480MB <WDC WD6402AAEX-00Y9A0 05.01D05> at ata4-master UDMA100 SATA
> 3Gb/s
> ad10: 610480MB <WDC WD6401AALS-00J7B1 05.00K05> at ata5-master UDMA100 SATA
> 3Gb/s
> 
> Today the box became unresponsive so I had to do a hard reset. From
> /var/log/messages:
> 
> It appears from the logs that the problem lasted for a full day! However,
> after the reboot the drive did not perform any resilver and no data loss
> occurred.
> I have scrubbed my pool successfully and run smartmon tests also.
> 
> It doesn't appear to be a drive issue so I was wondering if the recent
> changes in controllers that appeared a few days ago might be related.

There was no changes specific to the Promise controllers for a long
time. Mostly because I have no any documentation for them. For the same
reason I hardly can say what could be wrong there. Some additional
information is definitely required.

-- 
Alexander Motin