Hi!
I used to use the FreeBSD on i386 architecture together with the controller
Mylex AcceleRAID 170.There was RAID 0+1 configured on it out of 5 discs
(Enhanced Mirroring).
# pciconf -lvc
...
mly0@pci0:6:1:0: class=0x010400 card=0x00521069 chip=0x00501069 rev=0x02
hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Mylex Corp'
device = 'AcceleRAID Disk Array'
class = mass storage
subclass = RAID
cap 01[80] = powerspec 2 supports D0 D3 current D0
I used this configuration on i386 architecture with the following versions
FreeBSD: 4.x, 5.x, 6.x and 7.0. It always worked perfectly. But recently I got
needed 8 GB RAM so I had to install the version FreeBSD for AMD64. First I
tried the 7.0, and after all - RELENG_7_1 dated 12.12.2008. Both these systems
work with the files system located on RAID unstabl?! Meanwhile the same hardware
on i386 architecture works with RELENG_7_1 perfectly.
Hardware: MB INTEL DG33FB, CPU Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU @ 2.40 GHz, RAM 8 GB.
The base system is installed on a separate IDE disc.
# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/ad4s1a 496M 111M 345M 24% /
devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev
/dev/ad4s1d 3.9G 22K 3.6G 0% /tmp
/dev/ad4s1f 333G 52G 255G 17% /usr
/dev/ad4s1e 15G 41M 14G 0% /var
/dev/da0s1d 70.7G 410K 70.1G 0% /mnt/da0/d
I carried out the following test by creating 3 big sized files of 1 GB each, and
then deleting them:
# cd /mnt/da0/d
# dd if=/dev/zero of=test1 bs=1024k count=1024
# dd if=/dev/zero of=test2 bs=1024k count=1024
# dd if=/dev/zero of=test5 bs=1024k count=1024
# rm test*
After that I tried to unmount the files system, but I get a message of the
kernel panic:
# cd /
# umount /mnt/da0/d
...
bad block 123456789, ino 176
dev = da0s1d, block = 4, fs = /mnt/da0/d
panic: ffs_blkfree: freeing free block
cpuid = 3
Uptime: 34 min...
The test was successful when using the i386 architecture with the same hardware
Taking a piece of advice of my friend, I used a dirty patch:
=== [code] ==diff -Nru src.orig/sys/cam/scsi/scsi_da.c
src/sys/cam/scsi/scsi_da.c
--- src.orig/sys/cam/scsi/scsi_da.c 2008-12-10 10:01:40.000000000 +0800
+++ src/sys/cam/scsi/scsi_da.c 2008-12-19 12:18:27.000000000 +0800
@@ -1187,7 +1187,7 @@
if (match != NULL)
softc->quirks = ((struct da_quirk_entry *)match)->quirks;
else
- softc->quirks = DA_Q_NONE;
+ softc->quirks = DA_Q_NO_SYNC_CACHE; // Dirty hack for AMD64
/* Check if the SIM does not want 6 byte commands */
xpt_setup_ccb(&cpi.ccb_h, periph->path, /*priority*/1);
=== [/code] ==
This patch solved the problem and the systems stopped being panicking. But I
assume that this solution is wrong as the hardware works on i386 architecture
without this patch well.