I think that TMC Research is the company that designed the Supermicro-branded controller card that has the Marvell SATA controller chip on it. Googling around I see connections between Supermicro and TMC.
This is the card: http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/addon/AOC-SAT2-MV8.cfm On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Remco Lengers <re...@lengers.com> wrote: > Something is not right in the IO space. The messages talk about > > vendor ID = 11AB > > 0x11AB Marvell Semiconductor > > TMC Research > > Vendor Id: 0x1030 > Short Name: TMC > > Does "fmdump -eV" give any clue when the box comes back up? > > ..Remco > > > Blake wrote: >> >> I'm attaching a screenshot of the console just before reboot. The >> dump doesn't seem to be working, or savecore isn't working. >> >> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Blake <blake.ir...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> I'm working on testing this some more by doing a savecore -L right >>> after I start the copy. >>> >>> BTW, I'm copying to a raidz2 of only 5 disks, not 16 (the chassis >>> supports 16, but isn't fully populated). >>> >>> So far as I know, there is no spinup happening - these are not RAID >>> controllers, just dumb SATA JBOD controllers, so I don't think they >>> control drive spin in any particular way. Correct me if I'm wrong, of >>> course. >>> >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Marc Bevand <m.bev...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> The copy operation will make all the disks start seeking at the same >>>> time and >>>> will make your CPU activity jump to a significant percentage to compute >>>> the >>>> ZFS checksum and RAIDZ parity. I think you could be overloading your PSU >>>> because of the sudden increase in power consumption... >>>> >>>> However if you are *not* using SATA staggered spin-up, then the above >>>> theory >>>> is unlikely because spinning up consumes much more power than when >>>> seeking. >>>> So, in a sense, a successful boot proves your PSU is powerful enough. >>>> >>>> Trying reproducing the problem by copying data on a smaller number of >>>> disks. >>>> You tried 2 and 16. Try 8. >>>> >>>> -marc >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> 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 > _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
