Re: FreeBSD 8.0-BETA4 IBM ServerRaid 8k issues

2009-09-14 Thread Ivan Voras
George Mamalakis wrote: Artis, and the rest of the guys, thank you all for your answers. Ivan, I was thinking of using one of the techniques you mention (create two volumes, install fbsd on one of them, and use GTP on the second drive), but I was wondering if there would be any "incompatibilit

Re: FreeBSD 8.0-BETA4 IBM ServerRaid 8k issues

2009-09-11 Thread Artis Caune
2009/9/11 George Mamalakis : > Artis, and the rest of the guys, thank you all for your answers. > > Ivan, I was thinking of using one of the techniques you mention (create two > volumes, install fbsd on one of them, and use GTP on the second drive), but > I was wondering if there would be any "inco

Re: FreeBSD 8.0-BETA4 IBM ServerRaid 8k issues

2009-09-11 Thread George Mamalakis
Artis, and the rest of the guys, thank you all for your answers. Ivan, I was thinking of using one of the techniques you mention (create two volumes, install fbsd on one of them, and use GTP on the second drive), but I was wondering if there would be any "incompatibility" issues with tools lik

Re: FreeBSD 8.0-BETA4 IBM ServerRaid 8k issues

2009-09-11 Thread Artis Caune
2009/9/10 George Mamalakis : > Hello everybody, > > Yesterday I installed FreeBSD 8.0-BETA4 on an IBM 3650, having a ServerRaid > 8k adapter, and 6 sata disks on raid-6. > > aac0: COMMAND 0xff80003e08a0 TIMEOUT AFTER 40 SECONDS > aac0: COMMAND 0xff80003d5070 TIMEOUT AFTER 40 SECONDS >

Re: FreeBSD 8.0-BETA4 IBM ServerRaid 8k issues

2009-09-10 Thread Ivan Voras
2009/9/10 George Mamalakis : > Thank you for your answer again, and (now that you mentioned it:) ) in case > anyone knows whether we'll be able to see partitions > 2T in the future (or > now?!), please say how :). Actually, FreeBSD can use arbitrary sized drives and partitions (64-bit) but it's o

Re: FreeBSD 8.0-BETA4 IBM ServerRaid 8k issues

2009-09-10 Thread pluknet
2009/9/10 George Mamalakis : [about aac0: COMMAND 0xff80003d9440 TIMEOUT AFTER 40 SECONDS] >> It looks like the controller was too busy rebuilding to take any new >> requests. It is possible you have filled the controller's write cache and >> that is why the lag happened at this point. You can

Re: FreeBSD 8.0-BETA4 IBM ServerRaid 8k issues

2009-09-10 Thread George Mamalakis
Ivan, thank you very much for answering; and now to your comments: 3650 M1 or M2? On the box it writes x3650 (I forgot the initial 'x' before, sorry). You have received this message because you are running a debug kernel; a normal kernel with debugging disabled would not have shown it.

Re: FreeBSD 8.0-BETA4 IBM ServerRaid 8k issues

2009-09-10 Thread Ivan Voras
George Mamalakis wrote: Hello everybody, Yesterday I installed FreeBSD 8.0-BETA4 on an IBM 3650, having a 3650 M1 or M2? ServerRaid 8k adapter, and 6 sata disks on raid-6. The raid-6 volume was "synchronizing" for a day, so this syncing process was happening while I was installing fbsd on

FreeBSD 8.0-BETA4 IBM ServerRaid 8k issues

2009-09-10 Thread George Mamalakis
Hello everybody, Yesterday I installed FreeBSD 8.0-BETA4 on an IBM 3650, having a ServerRaid 8k adapter, and 6 sata disks on raid-6. The raid-6 volume was "synchronizing" for a day, so this syncing process was happening while I was installing fbsd on the server. During the installation I was