Re: Suggestions for Adaptec SAS AIC9410

2006-06-06 Thread Matthew Jacob
The mpt driver was just MFC'd, but that won't help the adaptec issue. There is a remote chance that somebody I'm doing work for will want a FreeBSD driver for the adaptec card, but that won't be for a couple of months. It's a huge PITA- the SuperMicro boards are nice , but they don't get along

Re: [releng_5 tinderbox] failure on amd64/amd64

2006-06-08 Thread Matthew Jacob
I'm assuming that this is just stale information for the Tinderbox. There is no mpt_freebsd.c defined in sys/conf/files any more. On 6/8/06, FreeBSD Tinderbox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: TB --- 2006-06-08 21:32:20 - tinderbox 2.3 running on freebsd-stable.sentex.ca TB --- 2006-06-08 21:32:20 -

Re: [releng_5 tinderbox] failure on amd64/amd64

2006-06-08 Thread Matthew Jacob
Ah- never mind- my bad. On 6/8/06, Matthew Jacob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm assuming that this is just stale information for the Tinderbox. There is no mpt_freebsd.c defined in sys/conf/files any more. On 6/8/06, FreeBSD Tinderbox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: TB --- 2006-06-08 21:32:20

Re: Losing confidence in FreeBSD 6.x in a loaded environment ... :(

2006-06-26 Thread Matthew Jacob
Well, I have to say that I had to reboot my 6.1 gateway on Sunday. It was 5.X prior to this and never had to be rebooted. On 6/26/06, Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, now this is getting ridiculous .. and for all those that have been helping me debug things over the past few

Re: Problems with QLogic 2312 FC controller on FreeBSD 4.11 stable

2006-08-09 Thread Matthew Jacob
working with Erik on this now... ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Several issues on Dell 1950/2950 servers (6-STABLE and 7-CURRENT)

2006-09-02 Thread Matthew Jacob
The OS booted up and the SAS controller was now detected and supported by the mpt(4) driver: --- mpt0: LSILogic SAS Adapter port 0xec00-0xecff mem 0xfc4fc000-0xfc4f, 0xfc4e-0xfc4e irq 64 at device 8.0 on pci2 mpt0: Reserved 0x100 bytes for rid 0x10 type 4 at 0xec00 mpt0: Reserved

Re: Several issues on Dell 1950/2950 servers (6-STABLE and 7-CURRENT)

2006-09-02 Thread Matthew Jacob
Yup, sounds like a mess here. But is there a solution or workaround rather than just concluding? Well, I've collected some info and am trying to sort through all of the stories. There certainly is something wrong with recent mpt(4) and I'm trying to figure out what. It affects some people's

Re: Re: Several issues on Dell 1950/2950 servers (6-STABLE and 7-CURRENT)

2006-09-02 Thread Matthew Jacob
Thank you :-) I am myself considering hardware from the same vendor and I assume others are as well, so I appreciate the effort. It's a Tier One vendor- you can rest assured that FreeBSD will support it. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Several issues on Dell 1950/2950 servers (6-STABLE and 7-CURRENT)

2006-09-09 Thread Matthew Jacob
is gone, but a new error message appears as often as the former, and under the same circumstances: mpt0: QUEUE_FULL: Bus 0x00 Target 0x00 Depth 128 -- Alex ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Several issues on Dell 1950/2950 servers (6-STABLE and 7-CURRENT)

2006-09-09 Thread Matthew Jacob
Oops- mangled reply. On 9/9/06, Matthew Jacob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is gone, but a new error message appears as often as the former, and under the same circumstances: mpt0: QUEUE_FULL: Bus 0x00 Target 0x00 Depth 128 Do you see these all the time? If so I'll have to connect up some

Re: Several issues on Dell 1950/2950 servers (6-STABLE and 7-CURRENT)

2006-09-09 Thread Matthew Jacob
If by all the time you mean every time certain disk operations are performed (tarball extraction, files download...), then, yes. All the time. Otherwise, no error shows up. Hmm. Okay. I'll work on this. Insofar as the Error 22- that's normal to see those for verbose booting. They should

Re: Several issues on Dell 1950/2950 servers (6-STABLE and 7-CURRENT)

2006-09-10 Thread Matthew Jacob
On 6-STABLE, those Error 22 messages on boot, show up too slowly, one character at a time, at about one line every 30 seconds, which delays the boot process on almost 20 (twenty) minutes. After that huge delay, the disc information is shown and the file system is fsck'ed, as usually. However,

Re: iSCSI HBAs

2006-09-15 Thread Matthew Jacob
There was some interest in QLogic's part a couple of years ago to get 4000 support and they contacted me, but I was pretty much uninterested in it as a project. Go poke them again and see if they want to try. Why do you think an iSCSI HBA would be of any benefit to anything other than the target

Re: DELL CX300 storage

2006-09-29 Thread Matthew Jacob
Or LSI-Logic. On 9/29/06, Wilko Bulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 06:01:25PM -0300, Eduardo Meyer wrote.. How sad :~ But thank you for the quick reply. I hope bsdstats initiative may help somehow this kind of problem. All this said, I think you will find a Qlogic FC

Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2

2006-10-01 Thread Matthew Jacob
Just to add a data point: I just upgraded feral.com to the latest RELENG_6 branch. I have a dual port em for internal networks and I've never seen the problems reported. Also, for -current, things have now been stable again for the last week or so for em on multiple machines (most of which have

Re: Recommendations for a serial port card you can actually BUY?

2006-10-05 Thread Matthew Jacob
I would recommend staying with FreeBSD-5. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Re: Re: Qlogic 2340 problems

2006-10-12 Thread Matthew Jacob
if it would fail again and it continued to work. *sigh* The good news, I am working. The bad news is I am not sure what was really wrong. Thanks for you help, Dave On 10/10/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/10/06, Matthew Jacob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's an odd one

Re: sio driver sucks

2006-11-12 Thread Matthew Jacob
YMMV and your message is content free. I use sio all the time as a [EMAIL PROTECTED] w/o any problems. On 11/12/06, Sergey Matveychuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you know an old sio driver is hardly usable? There are many silo overflows, working with a terminal device is a nightmare. There was

Re: SunFire X4100 MPT Issues 6.2 RC1

2006-11-23 Thread Matthew Jacob
[i'm on vacation now] Hmm- I thought I put in code so you should only see one of those. I'll check this out when I get back next week. On 11/21/06, Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have a new SunFire X4100 box and so I figured I would try 6.2 RC1 on it. Everything seems to work with the

Re: LSI 53C1030/mpt(4) problem

2006-12-02 Thread Matthew Jacob
- 2006 Nov 7-CURRENT snapshot probes the two HDDs case, but the HDDs are recognized as very slow devices such as 6MB/s, and accessing it makes the box freeze, too. The 6MB/s thing I'm working on now. I have no clue about the other issues at this time.

Re: strange behavior of ioapic on PDSME motherboard (was: LSI 53C1030/mpt(4) problem)

2006-12-04 Thread Matthew Jacob
. I see. BTW, I confirmed that mpt worked on the November snapshot except the data transfer rate was 6.6MB/s. Is it worth trying the latest current? Just fixed, I think, as of last night. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Interrupt (SCSI?) hang on 4.x

2007-01-02 Thread Matthew Jacob
Brute force things to try, IMO: a) Try a different (non-adaptec) SCSI controller b) Run non-SMP c) Swap motherboard ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: fibre channel cards

2007-03-09 Thread Matthew Jacob
Generally speaking, the LSI-Logic cards are faster, at least for 2Gb, in terms of IOPS. However, the LSI-Logic firmware is less capable of coping with complicated topologies and the mpt(4) driver is less mature than isp(4). Another thing to keep in mind is that for new cards (as opposed to

Re: Dell SAS5 Performance Issue

2007-03-27 Thread Matthew Jacob
It's been seen before but the fix isn't know yet. On 3/27/07, Richard Tector [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm suffering from very slow write performance on a Dell PowerEdge 860 with the SAS5/IR controller (mpt driver) running either 6.2-RELEASE or 6.2-STABLE with sources from yesterday. The

Re: Dell SAS5 Performance Issue

2007-03-27 Thread Matthew Jacob
not at the momeny- it's really that I won't have time until april On 3/27/07, Richard Tector [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthew Jacob wrote: It's been seen before but the fix isn't know yet. On 3/27/07, Richard Tector [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm suffering from very slow write performance

Re: Dell SAS5 Performance Issue

2007-04-01 Thread Matthew Jacob
On 4/1/07, Richard Tector [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthew Jacob wrote: On 3/27/07, Richard Tector [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthew Jacob wrote: It's been seen before but the fix isn't know yet. On 3/27/07, Richard Tector [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm suffering from very slow write

Re: scsi/mpt problem with latest source

2007-04-01 Thread Matthew Jacob
pleasep pooint out what the error is, and are you booting verbose? On 4/1/07, JoaoBR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: with new sources I get an mpt error which is not present with sources from march 28 mpt0: LSILogic 1030 Ultra4 Adapter port 0xdc00-0xdcff mem

Re: scsi/mpt problem with latest source

2007-04-01 Thread Matthew Jacob
this reset bus didn't and do not happen with some day older sources: (xpt0:mpt0:0:-1:-1): reset bus Well, don't worry about it. It's always been happening. no, I do not boot verbose Thanks. I'll make this message show up under 'bootverbose' only., ... da0 at mpt0 bus 0 target 0

Re: scsi/mpt problem with latest source

2007-04-01 Thread Matthew Jacob
(xpt0:mpt0:0:-1:-1): reset bus periph:sim:channel:target:lun target == lun == -1 == wildcard, so the initial bus reset applies to a nexus for all targets and luns on that channel on that sim (mpt0) on that periph (xpt0) would you mind to tell why it happens and this -1 values ?

Re: Dell SAS5 Performance Issue

2007-04-17 Thread Matthew Jacob
Is there any news on the performance of this card? I personally have not been able to reproduce the problem. It seems to occur whether in Integrated Raid or not. It seems to be related to specific backplanes and drives. It's an important problem to solve I agree.

Re: Fibre Channel Controller

1999-07-15 Thread Matthew Jacob
6) Fibrechannel drives do not consume 50% more than SCSI drives unless you What does this mean? Sorry, it was meant to be "50% more power". To be sure! To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message

Re: HEADS UP! MFC's

2000-10-27 Thread Matthew Jacob
On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Mike Smith wrote: There are some things which are broken in -stable that need to be fixed (alpha booting, e.g.). We'll try to leave the world a better place for our efforts. -stable world builds, installs and boots on my pws433 as of earlier today (with dfr's

Re: Intel PRO/1000F NIC wx driver

2001-01-19 Thread Matthew Jacob
I'll look at it when I next spend a couple of days on this NIC (hopefully next week). To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message

Re: Can isp driver support Qlogic 2340 on FreeBSD5.x or later?

2005-04-14 Thread Matthew Jacob
Yes, the 234X cards have been supported for quite a while. DELL has a clone card which up until recently wasn't supported. The 236X/63XX cards are not yet supported. On 4/14/05, wsk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: folks: Can the Qlogic 2340 Fibre Channel card works on FreeBSD now? DELL released a

Re: Can isp driver support Qlogic 2340 on FreeBSD5.x or later?

2005-05-02 Thread Matthew Jacob
Yeah, sorry- the newer QLogic cards have firmware that has a different protocol that I haven't written the code for yet. In general, always load the firmware module as well. *EVENTUALLY* we'll be able to unload it and reclaim the member. On 5/2/05, Danny Braniss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On

Re: Alright you primitive screwheads, LISTEN UP!!

2005-05-16 Thread Matthew Jacob
What an amusing rant. As far as I can tell, I've always been banned from your Inbox whether I called you BIll, Paul, Wpaul, or OMisterWizard! ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To

Re: [releng_6 tinderbox] failure on sparc64/sparc64

2006-02-02 Thread Matthew Jacob
Hmm- I doesn't recall name not mentioned telling me about this earlier- perhaps he can dig up the mail as I haven't had any mail from him directly in years that I recall. Is the tinderbox still failing? I haven't seen that mail- maybe I'm not on the list it's being sent to? There are two

Re: [releng_6 tinderbox] failure on sparc64/sparc64

2006-02-02 Thread Matthew Jacob
On Thu, 2 Feb 2006, Matthew Jacob wrote: MJIs the tinderbox still failing? I haven't seen that mail- maybe I'm not on MJthe list it's being sent to? You may look into either stable@ or spar64@ Ah. I'm subscribed to neither. Okay- thanks for the headsup that it's still broken. I have

Re: [releng_6 tinderbox] failure on sparc64/sparc64

2006-02-04 Thread Matthew Jacob
I would think that the tinderboxes should run 100% the same flags as what normal release builds use. Nothing more, nothing less. What I would like to see is a pointer to a procedure and tools to make sure builds aren't broken. I've been refreshing my memory about email going back about 5

Re: [releng_5 tinderbox] failure on sparc64/sparc64

2006-02-05 Thread Matthew Jacob
Sigh. Sorry. I'm on it. On 2/5/06, FreeBSD Tinderbox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: TB --- 2006-02-05 11:55:13 - tinderbox 2.3 running on freebsd-stable.sentex.ca TB --- 2006-02-05 11:55:13 - starting RELENG_5 tinderbox run for sparc64/sparc64 TB --- 2006-02-05 11:55:13 - cleaning the object tree

Re: [releng_5 tinderbox] failure on sparc64/sparc64

2006-02-05 Thread Matthew Jacob
Too late. Scott beat me to it. On 2/5/06, Matthew Jacob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sigh. Sorry. I'm on it. On 2/5/06, FreeBSD Tinderbox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: TB --- 2006-02-05 11:55:13 - tinderbox 2.3 running on freebsd-stable.sentex.ca TB --- 2006-02-05 11:55:13 - starting RELENG_5

RE: contigmalloc() lameness (Re: boot problem in HP Proliant ML370 G4)

2006-04-02 Thread Matthew Jacob
I must have missed something here. What's the problem that causes contigmalloc to be called here? If this is to do with 4GB of memory, that was fixed in -CURRENT over a month ago. -Original Message- From: Ganbold [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2006 10:28 PM To: Kris

Re: contigmalloc() lameness (Re: boot problem in HP Proliant ML370 G4)

2006-04-03 Thread Matthew Jacob
On Mon, 3 Apr 2006, Scott Long wrote: Matthew Jacob wrote: I must have missed something here. What's the problem that causes contigmalloc to be called here? If this is to do with 4GB of memory, that was fixed in -CURRENT over a month ago. He's using 6.0-RELEASE. A reason to allow

Re: HP DL145G2 SCSC Raid Controlle Q

2006-04-25 Thread Matthew Jacob
mhh, isn't mpt only a SCSI controller (not a RAID controller)? Not in some configurations. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Dell SAS5 Performance Issue

2007-04-25 Thread Matthew Jacob
/07, J. Martin Petersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthew Jacob wrote: Is there any news on the performance of this card? I personally have not been able to reproduce the problem. It seems to occur whether in Integrated Raid or not. It seems to be related to specific backplanes and drives. It's

Re: [releng_5 tinderbox] failure on sparc64/sparc64

2007-05-11 Thread Matthew Jacob
Sorry- my bad. I'll fix shortly. On 5/10/07, FreeBSD Tinderbox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: TB --- 2007-05-10 14:42:44 - tinderbox 2.3 running on freebsd-stable.sentex.ca TB --- 2007-05-10 14:42:44 - starting RELENG_5 tinderbox run for sparc64/sparc64 TB --- 2007-05-10 14:42:44 - cleaning the

Re: can I change probe order of mpt controllers?

2007-05-25 Thread Matthew Jacob
FWIW, IMO- don't wire- use glabel instead. On 5/25/07, Scott Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vivek Khera wrote: On May 25, 2007, at 11:22 AM, Scott Long wrote: Look in /sys/conf/NOTES for a long discussion on wiring SCSI device order. Thanks! That looks like it should do the trick. I'm

Re: is read-write nullfs safe?

2007-06-19 Thread Matthew Jacob
I use it all the time for compiles on top of nfs On 6/18/07, Rong-en Fan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running 6.2-RELEASE, and I am wondering if using nullfs w/ rw is safe in a production environment? My impression is that ro nullfs is ok, but not rw. Is this still the case? Regards, Rong-En

Re: SCSI error during boot

2007-07-21 Thread Matthew Jacob
Just so you know... after having done a large number of SCSI target mode implementations and having seen what initiators do, it's Microsoft that is the closest to actually adhering to and using the SCSI standards correctly. On 7/20/07, Torfinn Ingolfsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 20 Jul

Re: EOT tape handling changed?

2002-08-29 Thread Matthew Jacob
I'm not sure what you're talking about here with this test program (deleted)- unless you've dorked with MAXPHYS defines, the maximum you can any tape record at is 64K. I'm not sure that this is right. The NetBSD driver will do the same behaviour at this point. Maybe it has been changed

Re: Crash dump problem - sleeping thread owns a non-sleepable lock during crash dump write

2010-05-14 Thread Matthew Jacob
Matthew Fleming wrote: As an aside, this is a quad-core in one package CPU (an X3363). On both this box and a similar one with an X5470, console messages continue to print out after the system has been halted - press any key to reboot - in particular, the shutdown makes a bunch of the

Re: The MFC process...

2012-07-18 Thread Matthew Jacob
(And sorry to pick on Matt, heh.) Trent. You can pick on me all you like. I'll get to it when I can. Or won't. I have 3 kids and three mortgages at present (no they're not related), so I tend to be distracted from socially meaningful projects. ___