Promise SX6000 controller

[Hiroki Sato]

Tom Glover <tomg at egg.net> wrote
  in <Pine.BSF.4.58.0402050804340.14155 at enema.egg.net>:

tomg> Has anyone got one running where they can boot of the card? Preferrably on
tomg> version 5.2 using RAID 1 but .....
tomg> 
tomg> Has anyone tried pulling a drive under RAID 1 on a running system? Should
tomg> keep right on running but need to be sure.
tomg> 
tomg> Any other problems with this card?

 I am using a SX6000 with 4 drives/RAID0+1 configuration on my FreeBSD
 5.2-CURRENT box as of 2003/12/12 (not the boot disk, though).
 It should also be supported on 5.2-RELEASE.  The dmesg says:

 |FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT #0: Sat Dec 13 02:48:01 JST 2003
 (snip)
 | pst0: <Promise SuperTrak RAID> on pstpci0
 | GEOM: create disk pst0 dp=0xc299998c
 | pst0: 234603MB <PROMISE TECH. I2O RAID DEVICE> [29907/255/63] on pstpci0
 | pstpci0: [MPSAFE]

 The hot swap (with SuperSwap) works fine and it is tolerant
 of relatively heavy load.  However, it occasionally stops working
 and puts the following warnings:

 | Jan 29 22:56:50 kernel: pst: timeout mfa=0x0033cbf0 cmd=0x01
 | Jan 29 22:57:00 kernel: pst: timeout mfa=0x0036d990 cmd=0x01
 | Jan 29 22:57:10 kernel: pst: timeout mfa=0x0032e870 cmd=0x01
 | Jan 29 22:57:20 kernel: pst: timeout mfa=0x003e99b0 cmd=0x01

 I do not know the trigger, but it seems to occur once in two or
 three months.

-- 
| Hiroki SATO
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