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 […]
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
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I hooked up the Dell TL4000 tape library tonight. I have bacula-sd.conf configured, but I do not have the autochanger configured or tested. I just wanted to run a btape test. A btape test is an essential part of setting up your tape drive with Bacula as it is the initial testing of tape drive
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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
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
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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
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I encounter edge cases. It’s not fun. This particular situation caused OXS Mail.app to crash when using a VPN. The outline This particular edge case involved the following: OSX 10.11.1 (15B42) Tunnelblick 3.5.5 (build 4270.4461) Mail.app When running Mail.app, it would crash within 5-10 seconds. The full dump of the crash has been sent to
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NOTE: If you are looking to configure net-mgmt/net-snmp for the first time, the latest article is Configuration of net-mgmt/net-snmp on FreeBSD. NOTE: IF YOU WANT TO GET IT WORKING, skip down to The Recipe. See also net-mgmt/net-snmpd wants /snmp/snmpd.conf for later versions of net-snmpd. I want to measure more stuff. I have catci running on
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Yes, this was not fun. I took some notes, but not everything. Please read the notes if you plan on doing these foolish things. I was cleaning up /usr/src on a host which does not hold src. I looked and found: It was there that I knew I’d done the wrong thing. Trying snapshots Let’s
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