If you end up switching controllers, you should consider 3ware. I'm
currently running 17 IDE drives in one of my systems. I'm running the first
off the motherboard and the remaining 16 off the 3ware 8-port SATA
controllers.
Elliot
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tobias" <c4@portad.se>
To: <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 8:30 AM
Subject: Problem with large amounts of IDE drives
> Has anyone except me had trouble (or success) running 16 or more IDE
drives> on 4.8-RELEASE?
>
> Currently we run perf on 14 drives, 2 connected to motherboard ide and 12
> connected to 2 HighPoint Tech RocketRaid 454. The 454 has no native driver
> for freebsd as of yet and we are told by hpt to run it using the 404's
driver.>
> We ran perf with 18 drives about one week ago, and after we mounted the
> last 4 (raided that is) it worked fine for like half an hour or maybe a
> whole hour then it locked the mount point. It's not reported in any
logs
> and the hpt374.status sysctl that is set reports no trouble neither.
I'm
> thinking that it might be a driver problem but I don't see why it ONLY
> occurs when we have the raid mounted... never if we have 1 or 2 out of 3
> mounted. But as soon as all drives are mounted.
> Oh yeah, it doesn't matter which raid we mount as the last... it's
always
> the LAST one mounted that f00bars...
>
> The computer has a 550W PSU so power should not really be a problem. Nor
> does it have any i/o to talk about... I'd say in a given day it reads
about> 50gig and writes about 10-30gig.
> Any clues? :o)
>
> dmesg follows for perf
> Copyright (c) 1992-2003 The FreeBSD Project.
> Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
> The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
> FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE #1: Sat Dec 6 12:32:45 GMT 2003
> c4@perf:/usr/src/sys/compile/perf
> Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz
> CPU: Intel Pentium III (863.87-MHz 686-class CPU)
> Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x68a Stepping = 10
>
Features=0x383f9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,
PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE>> real memory = 535560192 (523008K bytes)
> avail memory = 515723264 (503636K bytes)
> Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc053c000.
> Preloaded elf module "hpt374.ko" at 0xc053c09c.
> Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled
> md0: Malloc disk
> Using $PIR table, 12 entries at 0xc00f2c00
> npx0: <math processor> on motherboard
> npx0: INT 16 interface
> pcib0: <Host to PCI bridge> on motherboard
> pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0
> agp0: <Intel 82815 (i815 GMCH) SVGA controller> mem
> 0xffa80000-0xffafffff,0xf8000000-0xfbffffff irq 11 at device 2.0 on pci0
> pcib1: <Intel 82801BA/BAM (ICH2) Hub to PCI bridge> at device 30.0 on
pci0
> pci1: <PCI bus> on pcib1
> hpt3740: <HPT374 UDMA/ATA133 RAID Controller> port
> 0xde00-0xdeff,0xdf54-0xdf57,0xdf58-0xdf5f,0xdf7c-0xdf7f,0xdf60-0xdf67 irq
9> at device 9.0 on pci1
> hpt3741: <HPT374 UDMA/ATA133 RAID Controller> port
> 0xd000-0xd0ff,0xdf80-0xdf83,0xdf68-0xdf6f,0xdf84-0xdf87,0xdf88-0xdf8f irq
9> at device 9.1 on pci1
> xl0: <3Com 3c905B-TX Fast Etherlink XL> port 0xdc00-0xdc7f mem
> 0xff8dfc00-0xff8dfc7f irq 10 at device 11.0 on pci1
> xl0: Ethernet address: 00:10:5a:a5:0a:fc
> miibus0: <MII bus> on xl0
> xlphy0: <3Com internal media interface> on miibus0
> xlphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
> hpt3742: <HPT374 UDMA/ATA133 RAID Controller> port
> 0xd400-0xd4ff,0xdf98-0xdf9b,0xdf90-0xdf97,0xdf9c-0xdf9f,0xdfa0-0xdfa7 irq
9> at device 13.0 on pci1
> hpt3743: <HPT374 UDMA/ATA133 RAID Controller> port
> 0xd800-0xd8ff,0xdfe0-0xdfe3,0xdfa8-0xdfaf,0xdfe4-0xdfe7,0xdff0-0xdff7 irq
9> at device 13.1 on pci1
> isab0: <Intel 82801BA/BAM (ICH2) PCI to LPC bridge> at device 31.0 on
pci0
> isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
> atapci0: <Intel ICH2 ATA100 controller> port 0xffa0-0xffaf at device
31.1
> on pci0
> ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0
> ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0
> uhci0: <Intel 82801BA/BAM (ICH2) USB controller USB-A> port
0xef40-0xef5f
> irq 7 at device 31.2 on pci0
> usb0: <Intel 82801BA/BAM (ICH2) USB controller USB-A> on uhci0
> usb0: USB revision 1.0
> uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
> uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
> pci0: <unknown card> (vendor=0x8086, dev=0x2443) at 31.3 irq 3
> uhci1: <Intel 82801BA/BAM (ICH2) USB controller USB-B> port
0xef80-0xef9f
> irq 10 at device 31.4 on pci0
> usb1: <Intel 82801BA/BAM (ICH2) USB controller USB-B> on uhci1
> usb1: USB revision 1.0
> uhub1: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
> uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
> orm0: <Option ROMs> at iomem
> 0xc0000-0xc9fff,0xcc000-0xcffff,0xd0000-0xd3fff on isa0
> fdc0: <NEC 72065B or clone> at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on
isa0
> fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold
> fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
> atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0
> atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0
> kbd0 at atkbd0
> vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on
isa0
> sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
> sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
> sio0: configured irq 4 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
> sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0
> sio0: type 8250
> sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
> ppc0: parallel port not found.
> HPT374 UDMA/ATA133 RAID Controller driver Version 1.2
> ad0: 19130MB <SAMSUNG SV2001H> [38869/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA100
> ad2: 194481MB <Maxtor 6Y200P0> [395136/16/63] at ata1-master UDMA100
> da0 at hpt3740 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
> da0: <HPT3xx RAID 5 Array 3.00> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-0 device
> da0: 583442MB (1194890880 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 8842C)
> da1 at hpt3740 bus 0 target 1 lun 0
> da1: <HPT3xx RAID 0 Array 3.00> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-0 device
> da1: 942401MB (1930037248 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 54603C)
> Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a
>
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