Re: Safe card to replace for ICP Vortex GDT8514RZ ...
On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Christian Brueffer wrote: On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 10:49:27PM -0300, User Freebsd wrote: I have a remote server, running the above RAID controller, that, as most ppl here have seen over the past few weeks, is causing endless headaches ... Official word from Adaptec is that FreeBSD is no longer a supported platform, so, I either live with the deadlocks, or try and figure out a suitable replacement for the card ... So, can anyone recommend a card to replace this with? Its a remote server, so I'm looking for something that will be plug-n-play, same slot that the GDT is in ... I realize that I'll have to reformat the server afterwards ... I contacted Achim Leubner not long ago, about wheather he still maintains and supports the iir(4) driver, as claimed in the SEE ALSO section of the manpage. His answer was yes. I email'd him several weeks back, as soon as it was determined that the problem I've been experiencing with the deadlocks looked to be iir related, and didn't hear anything back :( Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN . [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.orgICQ . 7615664 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Safe card to replace for ICP Vortex GDT8514RZ ...
On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: Hi! On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 10:49:27PM -0300, User Freebsd wrote: Official word from Adaptec is that FreeBSD is no longer a supported platform, so, I either live with the deadlocks, or try and figure out a suitable replacement for the card ... That's really really bad news. Oddly, ICP Vortex Germany told me the opposite wr/t to their new line of cards. They said, they were working on full FreeBSD support. Great, that definitely wasn't the feel that I got from them ... I've been using Adaptec products since early 90's, mainly because they have always been the 'tried-n-true' product ... As I mentioned to someone else, I'm willing to endure having the server hang up a few times in order to debug the problem, and fix the driver, but any correspondance that I actually got answers back on gave me the feel that I was on my own ... my previous email to this was meant to warn others to think twice, especially with newer FreeBSD boxes, about going with anything that runs on the iir(4) driver ... Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN . [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.orgICQ . 7615664 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Safe card to replace for ICP Vortex GDT8514RZ ...
Hello! On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 09:51:59AM +0200, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: > That's really really bad news. Oddly, ICP Vortex Germany told me > the opposite wr/t to their new line of cards. They said, they > were working on full FreeBSD support. I'll check what they have > to say about the GDT controllers. OK - so here's the deal: The GDT products are officially EOE (End Of Engineering). ICP Vortex will not provide capacity to update their own driver for FreeBSD 6. The new products will feature full FreeBSD support, eventually. (couple of weeks, he said) Technically, the ICP guy was quite confident, that ICP's own driver for FreeBSD 4.x and 5.x didn't show the problems we have on FreeBSD 6 with the FreeBSD iir driver. He recommended using ICP's driver source as a reference when trying to fix the FreeBSD 6 driver. I'm not a kernel developer so I cannot really comment on this. HTH, Patrick M. Hausen Leiter Netzwerke und Sicherheit -- punkt.de GmbH Internet - Dienstleistungen - Beratung Vorholzstr. 25Tel. 0721 9109 -0 Fax: -100 76137 Karlsruhe http://punkt.de ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Safe card to replace for ICP Vortex GDT8514RZ ...
On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 10:49:27PM -0300, User Freebsd wrote: > > I have a remote server, running the above RAID controller, that, as most > ppl here have seen over the past few weeks, is causing endless headaches > ... > > Official word from Adaptec is that FreeBSD is no longer a supported > platform, so, I either live with the deadlocks, or try and figure out a > suitable replacement for the card ... > > So, can anyone recommend a card to replace this with? Its a remote > server, so I'm looking for something that will be plug-n-play, same slot > that the GDT is in ... I realize that I'll have to reformat the server > afterwards ... > I contacted Achim Leubner not long ago, about wheather he still maintains and supports the iir(4) driver, as claimed in the SEE ALSO section of the manpage. His answer was yes. That all I know. - Christian -- Christian Brueffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Key: http://people.freebsd.org/~brueffer/brueffer.key.asc GPG Fingerprint: A5C8 2099 19FF AACA F41B B29B 6C76 178C A0ED 982D pgpXqBfUFBtUe.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Safe card to replace for ICP Vortex GDT8514RZ ...
Hi! On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 10:49:27PM -0300, User Freebsd wrote: > Official word from Adaptec is that FreeBSD is no longer a supported > platform, so, I either live with the deadlocks, or try and figure out a > suitable replacement for the card ... That's really really bad news. Oddly, ICP Vortex Germany told me the opposite wr/t to their new line of cards. They said, they were working on full FreeBSD support. I'll check what they have to say about the GDT controllers. We run typo3.org on four heavily loaded systems with these cards. We did not update to 6.x yet, because of fear of the mythical NFS deadlocks. Now things seem to get even worse. > So, can anyone recommend a card to replace this with? Its a remote > server, so I'm looking for something that will be plug-n-play, same slot > that the GDT is in ... I realize that I'll have to reformat the server > afterwards ... We just ordered this box here: http://www.intel.com/design/servers/storage/ssr212cc/ It contains two Intel SRCS28X RAID Controllers, that are supposedly supported by the amr driver and the Linux Megamgr utility. The system should arrive in about two weeks - if you're interested, I'll keep you updated. Regards, Patrick M. Hausen Leiter Netzwerke und Sicherheit -- punkt.de GmbH Internet - Dienstleistungen - Beratung Vorholzstr. 25Tel. 0721 9109 -0 Fax: -100 76137 Karlsruhe http://punkt.de ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Safe card to replace for ICP Vortex GDT8514RZ ...
On Jul 31, 2006, at 7:49 PM, User Freebsd wrote: I have a remote server, running the above RAID controller, that, as most ppl here have seen over the past few weeks, is causing endless headaches ... Official word from Adaptec is that FreeBSD is no longer a supported platform, so, I either live with the deadlocks, or try and figure out a suitable replacement for the card ... So, can anyone recommend a card to replace this with? Its a remote server, so I'm looking for something that will be plug-n-play, same slot that the GDT is in ... I realize that I'll have to reformat the server afterwards ... You may want to consider the LSI MegaRAID cards... There are various ones. Do you need the low profile format? Look at the 320-1lp for that otehrwise the 320-1 or 320-2x They have freebsd drivers and a command line management app. I am looking at this to replace an adaptec 2200s eventually (for different reasons than the OP). I have not used the SCSI LSI MegaRAID cards through I have some of their SATA RAID cards. Chad --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider chad at shire.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
