3ware driver broken with 2.4.22/23 ?

3ware driver broken with 2.4.22/23 ?

[Lukas Hejtmanek]

Hello,

I have 3ware Escalade 8500-8 card with 8 SATA WD 250GB drives. I set up HW RAID5
configuration over all drives.
I'm using kernel 2.4.23 vanilla with XFS patch. RAID5 partition is formated to
XFS.
System is single hyper threaded P4 Xeon 2.8GHz with 1GB of RAM. There is Intel
1000/PRO ethernet card. Motherboard is MSI E7501 Master-LS.

If I do:
iozone -Ra -g 20G -e -n 10485760 
on the XFS partition then it freezes after certain time (but always the same
amount if I run it again few times).

Server responds only to ping and sysrq. No process can be run and already
running process top freezes as well. After about 8 hours it is still freezed.
If I connect monitor to the server when it freezes then monitor indicates - no
signal.

I use configuration with SMP without HIGHMEM. However it happens without SMP as
well. (Driver: 1.02.00.036)

With kernel 2.6.0 it seems to be ok. (Driver: 1.02.00.037)

Here is lspci:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. E7501 Memory Controller Hub (rev 01)
00:00.1 Class ff00: Intel Corp. E7000 Series Host RASUM Controller (rev 01)
00:02.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. E7000 Series Hub Interface B PCI-to-PCI Bridge (rev 01)
00:02.1 Class ff00: Intel Corp. E7000 Series Hub Interface B RASUM Controller (rev 01)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #1) (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #2) (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #3) (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BA/CA/DB/EB PCI Bridge (rev 42)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801CA LPC Interface Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801CA Ultra ATA Storage Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM SMBus Controller (rev 02)
01:1c.0 PIC: Intel Corp. 82870P2 P64H2 I/OxAPIC (rev 04)
01:1d.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82870P2 P64H2 Hub PCI Bridge (rev 04)
01:1e.0 PIC: Intel Corp. 82870P2 P64H2 I/OxAPIC (rev 04)
01:1f.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82870P2 P64H2 Hub PCI Bridge (rev 04)
02:09.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82545EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Copper) (rev 01)
02:0c.0 RAID bus controller: 3ware Inc 3ware 7000-series ATA-RAID (rev 01)
04:04.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 02)
04:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL (rev 27)

Here is info from 3ware card:
Monitor version:	ME7X 1.01.00.035	
Firmware version:	FE7S 1.05.00.036	
BIOS version:		BE7X 1.08.00.044	
PCB version:		Rev3	
Achip version:		V3.20	
Pchip version:		V1.30	
Model:			8500-8

Can firmware upgrade help? Or there is an issue with something other not related
to 3ware card?

-- 
Lukáš Hejtmánek

Re: 3ware driver broken with 2.4.22/23 ?

[Martin Loschwitz]

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On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 12:21:13PM +0100, Lukas Hejtmanek wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have 3ware Escalade 8500-8 card with 8 SATA WD 250GB drives. I set up HW RAID5
> configuration over all drives.
> I'm using kernel 2.4.23 vanilla with XFS patch. RAID5 partition is formated to
> XFS.
> System is single hyper threaded P4 Xeon 2.8GHz with 1GB of RAM. There is Intel
> 1000/PRO ethernet card. Motherboard is MSI E7501 Master-LS.
> 
> If I do:
> iozone -Ra -g 20G -e -n 10485760 
> on the XFS partition then it freezes after certain time (but always the same
> amount if I run it again few times).
> 
> Server responds only to ping and sysrq. No process can be run and already
> running process top freezes as well. After about 8 hours it is still freezed.
> If I connect monitor to the server when it freezes then monitor indicates - no
> signal.
> 
> I use configuration with SMP without HIGHMEM. However it happens without SMP as
> well. (Driver: 1.02.00.036)
> 
> With kernel 2.6.0 it seems to be ok. (Driver: 1.02.00.037)
> 
> Can firmware upgrade help? Or there is an issue with something other not related
> to 3ware card?
> 
Well, it happens from time to time that the card refuses to work with an
actual driver as actual drivers sometimes make use of functions introduced
in firmware upgrades. Upgrading the firmware should be the first thing to
try. Chances are it works well even with 2.4 afterwards.

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Re: 3ware driver broken with 2.4.22/23 ?

[Andre Tomt]

On Sun, 2003-12-21 at 12:21, Lukas Hejtmanek wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have 3ware Escalade 8500-8 card with 8 SATA WD 250GB drives. I set up HW RAID5
> configuration over all drives.
> I'm using kernel 2.4.23 vanilla with XFS patch. RAID5 partition is formated to
> XFS.

Reproducing with a different filesystem would probably be a useful
datapoint.

Re: 3ware driver broken with 2.4.22/23 ?

[Samuel Flory]

Lukas Hejtmanek wrote:
> 
> Can firmware upgrade help? Or there is an issue with something other not related
> to 3ware card?
> 

   Generally not with such a small rev difference.  You could try the 
latest driver, and firmware in the 7.7.  The driver source is on the Red 
Hat drivers disk.  You should be able to drop in the .c, and .h in 
drivers/scsi, and recompile.
http://3ware.com/support/download.asp?code=5&id=7.7.0&softtype=Driver&releasenotes=&os=Windows

PS- Personally I'd suspect an XFS bug.  Try reiserfs.  I've been running 
2.4.23pres, and 2.4.23 on hundreds of 3ware of numerous different types. 
  With no issue with the prior firmware release.
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Re: 3ware driver broken with 2.4.22/23 ?

[Joshua Schmidlkofer]

>    Generally not with such a small rev difference.  You could try the 
> latest driver, and firmware in the 7.7.  The driver source is on the Red 
> Hat drivers disk.  You should be able to drop in the .c, and .h in 
> drivers/scsi, and recompile.
> http://3ware.com/support/download.asp?code=5&id=7.7.0&softtype=Driver&releasenotes=&os=Windows
> 
> PS- Personally I'd suspect an XFS bug.  Try reiserfs.  I've been running 
> 2.4.23pres, and 2.4.23 on hundreds of 3ware of numerous different types. 
>   With no issue with the prior firmware release.

There are a lot of people, running RAID5 3ware's w/ Terrabyte arrays.  I
don't want to say it is not an XFS bug, but I find that highly suspect. 

js


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Re: 3ware driver broken with 2.4.22/23 ?

[Lukas Hejtmanek]

On Fri, Dec 26, 2003 at 09:45:25PM -0800, Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote:
> 
> >    Generally not with such a small rev difference.  You could try the 
> > latest driver, and firmware in the 7.7.  The driver source is on the Red 
> > Hat drivers disk.  You should be able to drop in the .c, and .h in 
> > drivers/scsi, and recompile.
> > http://3ware.com/support/download.asp?code=5&id=7.7.0&softtype=Driver&releasenotes=&os=Windows
> > 
> > PS- Personally I'd suspect an XFS bug.  Try reiserfs.  I've been running 
> > 2.4.23pres, and 2.4.23 on hundreds of 3ware of numerous different types. 
> >   With no issue with the prior firmware release.
> 
> There are a lot of people, running RAID5 3ware's w/ Terrabyte arrays.  I
> don't want to say it is not an XFS bug, but I find that highly suspect. 

Well, with ext3 parition iozone program finishes OK. So it looks like some XFS
bug.

-- 
Lukáš Hejtmánek

Re: 3ware driver broken with 2.4.22/23 ?

[Joshua Schmidlkofer]

On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 15:49, Lukas Hejtmanek wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 26, 2003 at 09:45:25PM -0800, Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote:
> > 
> > >    Generally not with such a small rev difference.  You could try the 
> > > latest driver, and firmware in the 7.7.  The driver source is on the Red 
> > > Hat drivers disk.  You should be able to drop in the .c, and .h in 
> > > drivers/scsi, and recompile.
> > > http://3ware.com/support/download.asp?code=5&id=7.7.0&softtype=Driver&releasenotes=&os=Windows
> > > 
> > > PS- Personally I'd suspect an XFS bug.  Try reiserfs.  I've been running 
> > > 2.4.23pres, and 2.4.23 on hundreds of 3ware of numerous different types. 
> > >   With no issue with the prior firmware release.
> > 
> > There are a lot of people, running RAID5 3ware's w/ Terrabyte arrays.  I
> > don't want to say it is not an XFS bug, but I find that highly suspect. 
> 
> Well, with ext3 parition iozone program finishes OK. So it looks like some XFS
> bug.

FWIW have you sent this on to the XFS list?

thanks,
  Joshua