I have a system with three tape drives and two tape changers. If one tape library is powered off when the system boots, the device names for the other tape library may be skewed. That is, /dev/sa0 may not be the LTO-4 drive, it will be the SDLT drive. This is not ideal. FreeBSD uses […]
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Let’s try the speed test which comes with Bacula’s btape utility. This is Bacula 7.4.0 on FreeBSD 10.2, with a Dell TL4000 LTO-4 tape library.
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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
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This post has been superseded by a newer post.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
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
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
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: