fyi to everyone, the Asus P5W64 motherboard previously in my opensolaris machine was the culprit, and not the general mpt issues. At the time the motherboard was originally put in that machine, there was not enough zfs i/o load to trigger the problem which led to the false impression the hardware was fine. I'm using a 5400 chipset xeon board now (asus dseb-gh) and my LSI cards are working perfectly again; over 2 hours of heavy I/O and no errors or warnings with snv 127 (with the P5W64/LSI combo with build 127 it would never run more than 15 minutes without warnings). I chose this board partly since it has PCI-X slots and I thought those might be useful for AOC-SAT2-MV8 cards if I couldn't shake the mpt issues, but now that the mpt issues are gone I can continue with that controller if I want.
Thanks everyone for your help, Chad On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 11:12:50PM -0800, Chad Cantwell wrote: > Thanks for the info on the yukon driver. I realize too many variables makes > things impossible to determine, but I had made these hardware changes awhile > back, and they seemed to work fine at the time. Since they aren't now, even > in the older OpenSolaris (i've tried 2009.06 and 2008.11 now), the problem > seems to be a hardware quirk, and the only way to narrow that down is to > change hardware back until it works like it used to in at least the older > snv builds. I've ruled out the ethernet controller. I'm leaning toward > the current motherboard (Asus P5W64) not playing nicely with the LSI cards, > but it will probably be several days until I get to the bottom of this since > it takes awhile to test after making a change... > > Thanks, > Chad > > On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 11:09:39AM +1000, James C. McPherson wrote: > > > > > > Gday Chad, > > the more swaptronics you partake in, the more difficult it > > is going to be for us (collectively) to figure out what is > > going wrong on your system. Btw, since you're running a build > > past 124, you can use the "yge" driver instead of the yukonx > > (from Marvell) or myk (from Murayama-san) drivers. > > > > As another comment in this thread has mentioned, a full scrub > > can be a serious test of your hardware depending on how much > > data you've got to walk over. If you can keep the hardware > > variables to a minimum then clarity will be more achievable. > > > > > > thankyou, > > James C. McPherson > > -- > > Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris > > Sun Microsystems > > http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
