Problems with High Point Tech RocketRaid 1640

[Thomas M. Skeren III]

Hey John...

Had many problems with operations and the amd 64 kernel.  I switched to 
the i386 kernel and have had no problems.

John Barbieri wrote:

> Good evening.
>
> Recently I setup a free bsd 5.3-amd64 box with dual opterons and 1GB 
> of ram.
>
>
> I constructed a RAID 5 array using the HPT rocketraid 1640, conisiting 
> of 4 disks, each with 200GB capacity.
>
>
> Everything worked well, until I installed and ran Samba from the ports 
> collection.
>
>
> Now, apparently whenever I transfer with samba, the computer freezes 
> for a few moments, then an array comes back, stating:
>
> Mar 24 13:14:12 tie kernel: hpt374: Device removed: controller 1 
> channel 3
> Mar 24 13:14:12 tie kernel: hpt374: Device removed: controller 1 
> channel 1
>
>
>
> The weird thing is, I transferred over 15GB of data over FTP, but the 
> second I used Samba (which is usually faster, which is why i switched 
> to it), the controller stated the two drives disconnected.
>
>
> How come I can transfer 15GB one way, and nothing the other?
>
> Now my RAID array is broken, and I lost all the data on it (which is 
> ok, since I have it backed up). But this is my 2nd time doing this 
> today, thinking maybe the first time was a fluke.
>
>
> info:
>
> FreeBSD tie.jbarbieri.net 5.3-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p5 #1: 
> Wed Mar 23 21:01:23 EST 2005 
> John at tie.jbarbieri.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/TIE  amd64
>
> pkg_info:
>
> autoconf-2.13.000227_5 Automatically configure source code on many 
> Un*x platforms
> automake-1.4.6_1    GNU Standards-compliant Makefile generator (legacy 
> version
> cvsup-without-gui-16.1h General network file distribution system 
> optimized for CVS
> gettext-0.14.1      GNU gettext package
> gmake-3.80_2        GNU version of 'make' utility
> libiconv-1.9.2_1    A character set conversion library
> libtool-1.3.5_2     Generic shared library support script (version 1.3)
> libtool-1.5.10_1    Generic shared library support script (version 1.5)
> linux_base-8-8.0_6  Base set of packages needed in Linux mode (only 
> for i386)
> m4-1.4.1            GNU m4
> perl-5.8.5          Practical Extraction and Report Language
> popt-1.7            A getopt(3) like library with a number of 
> enhancements, fro
> rpm-3.0.6_9         The Red Hat Package Manager
> samba-2.2.12        A free SMB and CIFS client and server for UNIX
>
>
> as you can see, not much installed. I just rebuilt this box last night 
> as well
>
> If you have any ideas, please let me know. If you need more info, let 
> me know.
>
>
> Thank you in advanced
>
> John Barbieri
>
>
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