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Using a Dell TL4000 with Bacula’s bacula-sd on FreeBSD with ZFS

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Last night, I managed to install new (but used) SAS cables for my Dell TL4000 on the tape01 server. I managed to get bacula-sd running, but I was unable to communicate with it from bacula-dir, via bconsole on my laptop. Eventually, I ran bacula-sd from the command line in the foreground and with debugging and saw things which needed to be corrected. In this post, I will adjust permissions on devices get bacula-dir […]

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tape01

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This post has been superseded by a newer post. The new SFF-8088 to SFF-8088 SAS cables have arrived and have been connected to the LSI 9200-8E SAS card and to the Dell TL4000 tape library. The updated the dmesg output etc and appear on this page, for future reference. The significant portion is: I will have to investigate those no free space available messages later, but given all the devices are present, I

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tape01

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This post is deprecated by this one. I have a new SAS card for the tape server. This time, we are using an LSI 9200-8E SAS card. I’ve updated the dmesg output etc and put on this page, for future reference. The significant portion is: World, please meet tape01, the newest addition to my home lab, and reincarnated from an old server. The tape library itself is not connected because the cables For

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Uncorrectable parity/CRC error

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These just turned up: Jan 9 14:31:13 slocum kernel: (ada6:ahcich6:0:0:0): READ_FPDMA_QUEUED. ACB: 60 28 48 5d 1d 40 e1 00 00 00 00 00 Jan 9 14:31:13 slocum kernel: (ada6:ahcich6:0:0:0): CAM status: Uncorrectable parity/CRC error Jan 9 14:31:13 slocum kernel: (ada6:ahcich6:0:0:0): Retrying command Jan 9 14:31:13 slocum kernel: (ada6:ahcich6:0:0:0): READ_FPDMA_QUEUED. ACB: 60 08 68 d0 57 40 0f 00 00 00 00 00 Jan 9 14:31:13 slocum kernel: (ada6:ahcich6:0:0:0): CAM status: Uncorrectable parity/CRC

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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

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mfituil exploration

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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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Oh! There’s my missing tape drive!

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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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tape01 – old server; new purpose

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This is tape01, the server to which the DELL TL4000 will be attached. At one time, it was my gateway/firewall/router. Of interest is the SAS card. You can see photos here. $ grep mfi /var/log/messages Dec 30 14:48:02 tape01 kernel: mfi0: <Dell PERC 6> port 0xd000-0xd0ff mem 0xfbec0000-0xfbefffff,0xfbe80000-0xfbebffff irq 19 at device 0.0 on pci3 Dec 30 14:48:02 tape01 kernel: mfi0: Using MSI Dec 30 14:48:02 tape01 kernel: mfi0: Megaraid SAS driver Ver

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CAM status: ATA Status Error READ_DMA48 Error 5, Retries exhausted

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This turned up this morning: Aug 5 05:10:04 knew kernel: (ada0:ata0:0:0:0): READ_DMA48. ACB: 25 00 d0 c4 6e 40 57 00 00 00 60 00 Aug 5 05:10:04 knew kernel: (ada0:ata0:0:0:0): CAM status: ATA Status Error Aug 5 05:10:04 knew kernel: (ada0:ata0:0:0:0): ATA status: 51 (DRDY SERV ERR), error: 40 (UNC ) Aug 5 05:10:04 knew kernel: (ada0:ata0:0:0:0): RES: 51 40 f0 c4 6e 57 57 00 00 40 00 Aug 5 05:10:04

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