This post is deprecated by this one. After a failed first attempt to get the SAS card working with a tape library, John Baldwin suggested I try mfip (there is no man page for it), but I discovered it was a kernel module. I issued the kdload mfip command, checked /var/log/messages, and found the tape library and drives had been added: Jan 1 00:30:42 tape01 kernel: mfip0: on mfi0 Jan 1 00:30:42 tape01 […]
When I couldn’t see any tape library associated with my SAS card, I decided to play with mifutil in case that provides any useful information. # mfiutil -u 0 show adapter mfi0 Adapter: Product Name: PERC 6/E Adapter Serial Number: 1122334455667788 Firmware: 6.2.0-0013 RAID Levels: JBOD, RAID0, RAID1, RAID5, RAID6, RAID10, RAID50 Battery Backup: not present NVRAM: 32K Onboard Memory: 256M Minimum Stripe: 8K Maximum Stripe: 1M # mfiutil -u 0 show firmware
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This post is deprecated by this one. World, please meet tape01, the newest addition to my home lab, and reincarnated from an old server. These are the screen shots of the Dell PERC 6E card BIOS configuration. But for the record:
Yesterday and today, none of my Bacula copy-to-tape jobs completed because my tape drive was missing. Today, I reseated all the cables, and power cycled the tape library. In my ssh session, I did this: $ sudo camcontrol devlist <ATA TOSHIBA DT01ACA3 ABB0> at scbus0 target 2 lun 0 (da0,pass0) <ATA TOSHIBA DT01ACA3 ABB0> at scbus0 target 10 lun 0 (da1,pass1) <ATA TOSHIBA DT01ACA3 ABB0> at scbus0 target 11 lun 0 (da2,pass2) <ATA
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