Bug 106887

Summary: Update for Tyan Thunder h1000E (S3970) - Odd Drive Issues Under Load
Product: Documentation Reporter: Nicole Harrington <nicole>
Component: Books & ArticlesAssignee: Pav Lucistnik <pav>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description Nicole Harrington 2006-12-19 03:00:28 UTC 
Broadcom BCM 5785 / Socket F - 2x Opteron
Thunder h1000E (S3970)

Ostensibly the thunder board works fine - however there is perhaps a problem under heavy disk load.

 I swapped a Tyan S2881 Opteron MB for a new style Tyan Thunder h1000E Opteron
motherboard in a production system that has 4 SATA hard drives and was running
Squid 2.5.
 The system has been running just fine for some time. However, as soon as I
replaced the MB, errors started occuring on the drives until the system paniced
and rebooted. This repeated several times.
 I tried reformating the drives while using the new MB, to see if that would
help. It did not.
 Since it was a production system, I was unable to spend much time troubleshooting.

 Since I was using an older rev of the gjournal patches I want to try it again
sometime with the newer versions and/or a system that does not use them since
the error seemed related to the gjournaling. However, even with the older
patches, it was and is working fine again since changing back to the older Tyan
S2881 Opteron Motherboard. So I do not think this could be related.
 It could be from having 3 or more drives, as I beleive the failures always
occured on the 3rd and 4th drives. It almost seemed like it coudl not keep up.

 Sorry for the lack of real technical details.

 However, on systems with less disk load and/or disks, I have noticed no issues and indeed it works well.

How-To-Repeat: Utilize this board on a system under heavy disk load.
Comment 1 Pav Lucistnik freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2006-12-19 08:33:43 UTC 
Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-www->pav

Take
Comment 2 Pav Lucistnik freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2006-12-30 15:19:23 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

I have extended the entry on the motherboards page. 

Regarding your gjournal problems, you should get in touch with the author at 
<pjd@FreeBSD.org>
Comment 3 dfilter service freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2006-12-30 15:26:26 UTC 
pav         2006-12-30 15:26:20 UTC

  FreeBSD doc repository

  Modified files:
    en/platforms/amd64   motherboards.sgml 
  Log:
  - Update entry for Tyan Thunder h1000E
  
  PR:             www/106887
  Submitted by:   Nicole Harrington <nicole@unixgirl.com>
  
  Revision  Changes    Path
  1.106     +2 -2      www/en/platforms/amd64/motherboards.sgml
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