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Using device.hints to wire physical devices to specific names

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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 device.hints for this. I have used it before, and for quite some time, however, I learned something new […]

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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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This post has been superseded by a newer post.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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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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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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