Subject: Re: Compaq RAID controller driver is problematic under 1.6.1
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Michael Doughty <netbsd-ml@amalgam.dyndns.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 06/09/2003 11:19:06
On Sun, Jun 08, 2003 at 05:14:45PM -0500, John Maier wrote:
> The Compaq Proliant 3000 is running with the drives in RAID 5.
> 
> cac0 at pci2 dev 0 function 0: Compaq Smart Array 3200
> cac0: interrupting at irq 9
> ld0 at cac0 unit 0: RAID5 array
> ld0: 34727 MB, 8819 cyl, 128 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 71122560 sectors
> 
> First the install was hell, constantly died, giving "error writing fsbn..."

I have had the same problems on similar hardware.  Compaq Proliant 1600 & 
1850R running with a Smart Array 2 SE and Smart Array 3200 respectively.

 
> Now I get errors, especially under heavy write loads, but there seems to be

Doing builds in pkgsrc have been a consistent source of failure for me.

> The two most common errors are:
> <several rows of "error writing fsbn...">
> dk_busy < 0
> panic: disk unbusy
> 
> and
> 
> <several rows of "error writing fsbn...">
> panic: biodone already
> 

I cycled through the 1.6, 1.6.1 releases and a 06/03/2003 build of
current, but I have had the same problems everywhere.

I was beginning to wonder why no one else was seeing this problem.  I am 
probably going to give 1.5.1 a run as well.


Michael