ips(4) in toaster mode FreeBSD 7.2

2009-12-28 Thread Jan Sieka
Hi! I'm writing to you because I've seen that you have recently commited patches to the FreeBSD ips(4) driver and perhaps you can shed some light on a problem I've encountered. Here is a description: Recently on one of our servers (IBM xSeries 345 [8760 M1X] with IBM ServeRAID 5i II (Sarasota

Re: ips(4) in toaster mode

2006-12-15 Thread Rong-en Fan
It seems that after upgrading ips firmware to the latest version available on ibm.com solves this problem. One changelog caught me eye: "increase timeout when tape driver is attached to the adapter". Indeed, we have a tape on ahd(4), which I think ips(4) is sharing this adapter. however, the myst

Re: ips(4) in toaster mode

2006-11-18 Thread Rong-en Fan
On 11/18/06, Martin Blapp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, >> Also, the only harddisk on that host is the ips(4), so I can not obtain >> a kernel dump. I'm not sure if this is a hardware failure, at least, no >> led on the panel is shown red... Hmm ? We do kernel dumps on ips(4) and it works. d

Re: ips(4) in toaster mode

2006-11-18 Thread Martin Blapp
Hi, Also, the only harddisk on that host is the ips(4), so I can not obtain a kernel dump. I'm not sure if this is a hardware failure, at least, no led on the panel is shown red... Hmm ? We do kernel dumps on ips(4) and it works. dumpdev="/dev/ipsd0s1b" Martin __

Re: ips(4) in toaster mode

2006-11-17 Thread Scott Long
I'll look at this. Scott Rong-en Fan wrote: Hi, After upgrading RELENG_6 from Jul 11 to Sep 30 on an i386 box, everytime I run tar to backup my system to a mounted nfs volume. After one hour of operation, it panics with sleeping thread. Upgrading to RELENG_6_2 does not help. Also, the console

ips(4) in toaster mode

2006-11-17 Thread Rong-en Fan
Hi, After upgrading RELENG_6 from Jul 11 to Sep 30 on an i386 box, everytime I run tar to backup my system to a mounted nfs volume. After one hour of operation, it panics with sleeping thread. Upgrading to RELENG_6_2 does not help. Also, the console is complete hang, I can not break into DDB at a