Jeff Royle wrote:
I could use some advice on this issue I have had with my raid controller.
I am not really running much on the system yet, postfix, Pf + pflogd,
rlogind, ssh, bsnmp and ntpd. While I was just reading a file with
less the system stopped responding. I thought it was the network
interfaces but I was able to ping the interface.
Once I plugged a monitor into the system I saw this (roughly):
AAC0: COMMAND <SOME HEX> TIMEOUT AFTER X number of seconds
Not good :)
Reset of the system resolved the issue and it booted fine. Since
the controller stopped responding nothing was recorded to my logs.
Now I have to figure out how to prevent that from happening again.
Basic run down on the system and some history...
P4 3.2Ghz
Asus P5MT-S MB
2 x 1GB DDR2 667 memory
Adaptec 2130SLP Raid Controller + battery backup module
2 Segate Ultra320 73GB 15k RPM (mirrored)
I have run this same system hardware testing 6.2-BETA3, RC-1 and RC-2
without this issue. I was using the driver released by Adaptec
while testing the pre-release installs
(http://www.adaptec.com/en-US/speed/raid/aac/unix/aacraid_freebsd6_drv_b11518_tgz.htm).
You could say I am fairly confidient in the hardware itself. I have
put this system through a lot of testing since BETA3.
The 6.2 release kernel has not been customized all that much, I just
pulled out all the drivers I would never use. To be safe I kept
just about all scsi devices/card models still in as I continued my
testing of 6.2 release.
Right now I am going to try taking out aac and aacp then try the
driver I used in my previous tests. However, since I have run a
week without this issue it will be hard/impossible tell if this did
anything to resolve it...I almost want a crash on the old driver :)
So I need some advice... How best do I debug this issue?
Thanks in advance for any direction you guys can offer me.
Cheers,
Jeff
It appears the driver I was using in my pre-release testing is newer
then the release driver.
Stock driver in 6.2r dmesg:
aac0: <Adaptec SCSI RAID 2130S> mem
0xfc600000-0xfc7fffff,0xfc5ff000-0xfc5fffff irq 24 at device 1.0 on pci2
aac0: New comm. interface enabled
aac0: Adaptec Raid Controller 2.0.0-1
aacp0: <SCSI Passthrough Bus> on aac0
Currently using:
aacu0: <Adaptec SCSI RAID 2130S> mem
0xfc600000-0xfc7fffff,0xfc5ff000-0xfc5fffff irq 24 at device 1.0 on pci2
aacu0: New comm. interface enabled
aacu0: Adaptec Raid Controller 2.0.7-1
aacpu0: <SCSI Passthrough Bus> on aacu0
Going to continue testing with the newer driver.
Cheers,
Jeff
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