Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 30 Nov 2006 10:48:06 +0100 (CET) | From | Igmar Palsenberg <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.16.32 stuck in generic_file_aio_write() |
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Hi,
> If you are working on arcmsr 1.20.00.13 for official kernel version. > This is the last version.
I'm already on that version. I'll see if I can upgrade to 2.6.19 today.
> Could you check your RAID controller event and tell someting to me? > You can check "MBIOS"=>"Physical Drive Information"=>"View Drive > Information"=>"Select The Drive"=>"Timeout Count"...... > It could tell you which disk had bad behavior cause your RAID volume > offline.
I need to be in the BIOS right ? I couldn't find anything usefull with the cli32 tool.
> About the message dump from arcmsr, it said that your RAID volume had > something wrong and kicked out from the system. > How about your RAID config?
CLI> disk info Ch ModelName Serial# FirmRev Capacity State =============================================================================== 1 HDT722516DLA380 VDK71BTCDB90KE V43OA91A 164.7GB RaidSet Member(1) 2 HDT722516DLA380 VDN71BTCDEPH7G V43OA91A 164.7GB RaidSet Member(1) 3 HDT722516DLA380 VDN71BTCDES96G V43OA91A 164.7GB RaidSet Member(1) 4 HDT722516DLA380 VDN71BTCDE15KG V43OA91A 164.7GB RaidSet Member(1) ===============================================================================
CLI> rsf info Num Name Disks TotalCap FreeCap DiskChannels State =============================================================================== 1 Raid Set # 00 4 640.0GB 0.0GB 1234 Normal ===============================================================================
CLI> vsf info # Name Raid# Level Capacity Ch/Id/Lun State =============================================================================== 1 ARC-1110-VOL#00 1 Raid5 480.0GB 00/00/00 Normal ===============================================================================
A plain RAID 5 config with 4 disks.
> Areca had new firmware released (1.42). > If you are working on "sg" device with scsi passthrough ioctl method to feed > data into Areca's RAID volume. > You need to limit your data under 512 blocks (256K) each transfer. > The new firmware will enlarge it into 4096 blocks (2M) each transfer. > The firmware version 1.42 is on releasing procedure but not yet put it on > Areca ftp site.
I don't use the sg driver at all. Is the upgrade worth it ? I usually don't mess with firmware unless being told to do so.
> If you need it, please tell me again.
Can you send it to me ? Installing it won't hurt I guess :)
Regards,
Igmar
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