tape01
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:
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Oh! There’s my missing tape drive!
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
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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OSX Mail crashes when using TunnelBlick and setting DNS/WINS
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 Apple, multiple times. Also of note: My mail server is not at home… it’s out there on the
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Installing net-mgmt/net-snmpd and getting it running
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 some machines, but I have long neglected those stats. In response to my recent post on the FreeBSD
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Deleting files from /usr/, breaking your system, then recovering
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 look for snapshots, find one from a few minutes ago, and rollback to that. $ zfs list -t
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Swapping disks in a zpool
I’m using FreeBSD 10.2-RC2 here, with a bunch of HDD. Here are the current pools: The degraded music pool contains a drive I will be replacing later in this post. But first, I want to replace a mis-matched drive in the benchmarking pool. I noticed that when I saw this output: The serial number on line 19 is of a different format. I suspected I was using different size drives because I knew
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Smart quotes are not so smart: net-snmp-config –create-snmpv3-user for LibreNMS
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. I wasted a few hours today trying to figure out why special characters in passwords were causing problems. I was chasing the wrong problem. Conclusion: smart quotes are dumb. Full disclosure: I should have seen the problem. The problem is not with LibreNMS. Here is my procedure for creating an snmp read-only
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CAM status: ATA Status Error READ_DMA48 Error 5, Retries exhausted
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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Replacing a failed drive in ZFS on FreeBSD
I’m using FreeBSD 10.2-RC2. One of my new hard 3TB drives was acting up. I removed it and sent it off to be replaced. In the meantime, I received some 5TB drives and I added one of them into the existing vdev of the zpool. First, I partitioned the drive much like the other drives in the system. In my case, this was: $ sudo gpart create -s gpt da0 da0 created $
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