Hello, Does the latest 5.x-STABLE support the Pacific Digital Talon ZL4-150 SATA RAID Card (U-30245)? After checking the hardware release notes I'm not sure. Any ideas? Thank You, Holt G. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
Holtor schrieb:> Does the latest 5.x-STABLE support the Pacific Digital Talon ZL4-150 SATA RAID Card (U-30245)? > After checking the hardware release notes I'm not sure. Any ideas?There is no hint that there is a FreeBSD driver implementing the public ATA host adapter standard. Therefore I think that this controller won't work. Regards Bj?rn
> > Under heavy load (I/O load on the disks constantly over 200 tps, average > > at about 250 tps, peaks over 600 tps) a random drive disconnects from > > the RAID 10. After removing the drive from the config and rescanning the > > bus, the drive does not show up anymore. The only way to get the drive > > back is to unplug the drive (or switch the computer off, so that power > > is removed). After that there is no problem to rebuild the RAID with > > the drive. > > Interesting. AFAIR the same sort of errors occured with some older WD > drives and 3Ware 750x controllers. > The solution was to flash the drives firmware. > > A quick googling found some reference to the problem on this document: > http://japan.3ware.com/products/pdf/Drive_compatibility_list.pdfHere is what I dug up from Western Digital: IDE RAID Compatibility Upgrade - 3Ware Cards Version Version 1.07 Publish Date Apr, 2003 Description This utility runs within DOS and is used to update WD drives that are connected to one or more 3Ware 7500-X IDE (Parallel ATA) RAID controllers. Affected drives: WD drives with capacities between 40GB and 120GB. WD drives with greater than 120GB capacity with Mfg. date codes earlier than 3/25/03. Download Wdc_upd.zip(140 KB) Operating System Windows 2000 Windows XP Windows ME Windows 98SE Windows 98 Instructions Download the wdc_upd.zip file. Extract the file onto bootable medium (floppy, CD-RW, network drive, etc.). Boot the system to be updated to the medium where the update files were unzipped to. Run wdcfgupd.bat The utility will proceed to update all the drives on that controller. This process takes approximately 1 min. per drive. Once the update completes, re-boot the system. The update is complete. Related Resources Technical information, FAQ, and related answers from the knowledge base Upload Date 04/01/2004 -DG David G. Lawrence President Download Technologies, Inc. - http://www.downloadtech.com - (866) 399 8500 TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com - (888) 346 7175 The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Pave the road of life with opportunities.
> > > Under heavy load (I/O load on the disks constantly over 200 tps, average > > > at about 250 tps, peaks over 600 tps) a random drive disconnects from > > > the RAID 10. After removing the drive from the config and rescanning the > > > bus, the drive does not show up anymore. The only way to get the drive > > > back is to unplug the drive (or switch the computer off, so that power > > > is removed). After that there is no problem to rebuild the RAID with > > > the drive. > > > > Interesting. AFAIR the same sort of errors occured with some older WD > > drives and 3Ware 750x controllers. > > The solution was to flash the drives firmware. > > > > A quick googling found some reference to the problem on this document: > > http://japan.3ware.com/products/pdf/Drive_compatibility_list.pdf...and here is even more information about the problem: Question Why do EIDE drives disappear from the IDE RAID array or system after a short period of error-free operation? Affected drives: WD EIDE drives with capacities between 40GB & 120GB WD EIDE drives with greater than 120GB capacity with a date earlier than 3/25/03. Answer Problem: WD EIDE drives are dropped from an IDE RAID array or system after several days or weeks of error-free operation. Solution: The problem is a result of a feature that reduces idle acoustic noise in desktop drives. This feature may cause a timeout likely (though not exclusively) in an IDE RAID environment. To disable the feature, you can run a simple Western Digital utility to turn off a single bit in the drives run-time configuration. Disabling of this feature will NOT impact normal system operations. No firmware or hardware changes are required. IDE Upgrade Utility (Non-3Ware controller cards) For all configurations other than 3Ware controller cards, download the IDE Upgrade Utility for the Desktop PC. 3Ware controller cards If you are using one or more 3Ware controller cards in an IDE RAID configuration, download the IDE RAID Compatibility Upgrade Utility for 3Ware 7500-X controllers cards. -DG David G. Lawrence President Download Technologies, Inc. - http://www.downloadtech.com - (866) 399 8500 TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com - (888) 346 7175 The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Pave the road of life with opportunities.