Gary Gendel wrote: > Thanks for the information. I am using the Marvell8sx driver on a vanilla > Sunfire v20z server. This project has gone through many frustrating phases... > > Originally I tried a Si3124 board with the box running a 5-1 Sil Sata > multiplexer. The controller didn't understand the multiplexer so I put in a > second board and drove the drives directly. > > However, this didn't work well either and would lock up periodically. I added > some published driver patches which made things better, but I would still get > periodic kernel panics because of a recursive mutex call. > > So, I bought the Supermicro 8 channel Sata Marvell card. I tried the > multiplexer again, but no luck, so I'm driving each separately again. > Occasionally, I would have a system lockup and could only force the system to > power down. I believe that this may have been due to a flaky Sata connection > internal to the box. Now I'm left with the situation that I described.
I've had the same issue on my box. It often (somewhere between every 30 minute to 4th hour) resets the sata ports. It continues fine, but it does halt the machine for some time. Recently after I gave up on debugging and took the machine into "production" it has started to freeze randomly about once per day. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
