[zfs-discuss] iSCSI initiator question

2011-02-26 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
Hei all Sorry for crossposting, but I'm not really sure where this question belongs. I'm trying to troubleshoot a connection from an s10 box to a SANRAD iSCSI concentrator. After some network issues on the switch, the s10 box seems to lose iSCSI connection to the SANRAD box. The error messages

Re: [zfs-discuss] iSCSI initiator question

2011-02-26 Thread Jim Dunham
Roy, Sorry for crossposting, but I'm not really sure where this question belongs. I'm trying to troubleshoot a connection from an s10 box to a SANRAD iSCSI concentrator. After some network issues on the switch, the s10 box seems to lose iSCSI connection to the SANRAD box. The error

Re: [zfs-discuss] iSCSI initiator question

2011-02-26 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
Now, the question is simple, where would you think the source of these errors belong? Based on the log supplied, it would appear that the iSCSI Target from SANRAD is failing on the SCSI command 0x8a, being a SCSI Write(16) command. A SCSI Write(16) command is required to read and write

Re: [zfs-discuss] What drives?

2011-02-26 Thread Brandon High
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 10:45 PM, Markus Kovero markus.kov...@nebula.fi wrote: Hi! I'd go for WD RE edition. Blacks and Greens are for desktop use and therefore lack proper TLER settings and have useless power saving features that could induce errors and mysterious slowness. There has been a

Re: [zfs-discuss] iSCSI initiator question

2011-02-26 Thread Richard Elling
On Feb 26, 2011, at 1:04 PM, Jim Dunham wrote: Roy, Sorry for crossposting, but I'm not really sure where this question belongs. I'm trying to troubleshoot a connection from an s10 box to a SANRAD iSCSI concentrator. After some network issues on the switch, the s10 box seems to lose

[zfs-discuss] Format returning bogus controller info

2011-02-26 Thread Dave Pooser
The hardware: SuperMicro 847A chassis (3 drive bays in 4U) -- A means there are 9 SFF-8087 ports on the backplanes, each controlling 4 drives; no expanders here. SuperMicro X8DTH-6F motherboard with integrated LSI 2008 SAS chipset, flashed to IT firmware, connected to one backplane port. Four LSI

Re: [zfs-discuss] Format returning bogus controller info

2011-02-26 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On 02/26/11 17:21, Dave Pooser wrote: While trying to add drives one at a time so I can identify them for later use, I noticed two interesting things: the controller information is unlike any I've seen before, and out of nine disks added after the boot drive all nine are attached to c12 -- and

Re: [zfs-discuss] sorry everyone was: Re: External SATA drive enclosures + ZFS?

2011-02-26 Thread Nathan Kroenert
Actually, I find that tremendously encouraging. Lots of internal Oracle folks still subscribed to the list! Much better than none... ;) Nathan. On 02/26/11 03:29 PM, Yaverot wrote: Sorry all, didn't realize that half of Oracle would auto-reply to a public mailing list since they're out of

Re: [zfs-discuss] Format returning bogus controller info

2011-02-26 Thread Dave Pooser
On 2/26/11 7:43 PM, Bill Sommerfeld sommerf...@hamachi.org wrote: On your system, c12 is the mpxio virtual controller; any disk which is potentially multipath-able (and that includes the SAS drives) will appear as a child of the virtual controller (rather than appear as the child of two or more