After a disk's disappearance, ar0 (raid5) hung...
All of a sudden, one of the three parts (ad8) of my ar0 threw a fit. As one might expect, the OS logged the event and told me, the array is now in degraded mode. Unfortunately, all I/O on the array is hanging. The machine is otherwise responsive, but processes trying to access the array hang in either "biord" or "getblk". I'm pretty sure, that, if I reboot, things will get back to normal. But I was hoping to buy some redundancy by using RAID5... If anybody is interested in any diagnostics -- let me know, I'll hold off rebooting for 12 hours. Yours, -mi ___ freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hardware-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: 12 SATA ports via PCI-X slots
And I just noticed on the Newegg.com photos of the AOC-SAT2-MV8 that for disk activity there doesn't seem to be a ground pin for each disk, just one common ground pin. Which, for me at least, sucks because all of the disk activity LEDs in my chassis have their own ground wire and are terminated in duplex headers, not the split headers. ___ freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hardware-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: 12 SATA ports via PCI-X slots
Hmm, that looks like a nice high density SATA card. I hadn't found many that I liked with PCI-X interfaces. Thanks. ___ freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hardware-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
12 SATA ports via PCI-X slots
Message: 1 Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2010 15:53:15 -0500 From: Douglas K. Rand Subject: 12 SATA ports via PCI-X slots To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Message-ID: <87mxpmtbr8.wl%r...@meridian-enviro.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII I have a moderately aged Tyan S4882 system that I need to support 12 SATA disks with for a ZFS pool. The motherboard doesn't provide any PCI-Express slots, but does have two 133 MHz PCI-X slots. Other than a 3ware S9550SX-12 or Areca ARC-1130, both of which are a bit hard to find, I was wondering if anybody had suggestions for me. HI Douglas I'm using the http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/addon/AOC-SAT2-MV8.cfm With FreeBSD 6.4/7.2/8.0 and 8.1 In your case that would be 2 cards to a total of 16 ports, but you have 4 SATA build in and may get away with one card only Very fast and at USD100 very reasonable and on ebay half price. I use the card only for JOBD/SATA to PCI because the RAID is software and rather unusable The good thing is that you can interchange your drives to and from standard SATA controllers later and will not lose access or partitions. Good luck Regards Torsten ___ freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hardware-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
