Re: What is a good choice of sata-ii raid controller for freebsd?

2007-02-12 Thread Geoffrey Giesemann
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 12:11:42PM +0300, Artem Kuchin wrote: On 2007-Feb-12 16:07:03 +1030, Daniel O'Connor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I regularly ship systems overseas where the power fails frequently. The inability to boot because one disk got hosed is Bad News (tm). A decent UPS can

Re: What is a good choice of sata-ii raid controller for freebsd?

2007-02-08 Thread Geoffrey Giesemann
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 04:34:57PM -0500, Charles Sprickman wrote: -They added a moving part (2-wire fan, no tach) to a mission-critical part. That seems real stupid. After the bearings die in 2-3 years, what happens to your card? Does it melt or just start acting weird? If the

Re: kernel panic on 6.2-RC2 with GENERIC.

2007-01-14 Thread Geoffrey Giesemann
On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 08:03:50AM +1030, Ian West wrote: On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 02:25:02PM -0500, Mike Tancsa wrote: At 11:43 AM 1/7/2007, Craig Rodrigues wrote: On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 06:59:10PM +0200, Nikolay Pavlov wrote: snip I have seen this identical fault with the new areca

Background fsck causes kernel panic

2006-12-26 Thread Geoffrey Giesemann
Running a fairly recent RELENG_6 SMP kernel, I had a nasty experience where filesystem corruption on a pair of RAID5 volumes on an arcmsr would cause the machine to panic during the background fsck. This resulted in a merry crash-reboot-crash cycle until I booted on to an install CD, ran a