Hello, I went back through the emails, and one thing that I can say is that you are very persistent. You've been working on this quite a while and have not given up!
I'm still convinced that you have have one or more of the following problems: 1. A FC that is caching data/status codes, which will not work correctly with Bacula, which expects to get everything back from the drive synchronously. 2. A Device resource that is not really properly defined for the way your tape drive works. One suggestion that may reduce the complexity of the situation would be to connect Bacula to your tape drive via SCSI rather than FC. This would at least remove the potential problems with FC. Regards, Kern On Thursday 11 October 2007 16:45, Mariusz Czulada wrote: > Hello, > > My response to Arno and Kern posts: > > Kern: > > I assume you have already ensure that the FC is not caching SCSI > > data or status codes, which would be fatal to Bacula. I also > > assume that you have worked your way through the (9 if I remember > > right) steps in the Tape testing chapter of the manual. > > Your second assumption is right. In fact btape test was working > correctly for a long time. > The first is not. I was unable to get any help neither from my local > hardware provider, nor from ibm. I still wait for the response from > qlogic, but don't expect anything valuable. This is a very frustrating > situation for me, but can't help it. > > > Arno: > > One question: What connections do exist? One HBA to one drive, > > the other HBA to the other drive, or what do you mean by > > "directly connected"? > > Exactely. One card connected to one drive with nice orange FC cable :-) > > > Arno: > > How is the HBA driver configured? IIRC, there was some option > > regarding tape handling. Or something - I haven't been in close > > contact with FC systems lately... > > Yes, indeed. There is an "Enable FC Tape Support" option in HBA > configuration, I set it on, but didn't notice any change. > > > About timestamp in SD log - I did some coding and will post in a > separate mail, perhaps it could be useful for omeone else. > > > Regards, > > Mariusz Czulada > > ------------- > > Dnia 8-10-2007 o godz. 14:52 Mariusz Czulada napisał(a): > > Hi all, > > > > Unfortunately I didn't get any help from my local support regarding my > > problem. In fact the answer was IMHO quite arrogant, like "System must > > work correctly. We don't know/care about bacula. Use tar instead or by > > Legato". So it seems I have to fight it alone... > > > > As a remainder, my configuration: > > > > Hardware configuration: > > * xSeries 3690, CentOS 4 (like RH ES4) > > * Two DS4000 FC 4 Gb PCI-X Single Port HBA; in system identified as > > QLogic QLA2460 - PCI-X 2.0 to 4Gb FC, Single Channel > > * TS3310 library, with two ULT3580-TD3 drives, connected directly to > > HBAs. > > > > Drivers: > > * drivers for qlaxxxx - v8.01.06 > > * SANsurfer FC HBA Manager High Availability Edition v2.0.30 Build 81 > > * IBMTape soft v. 3.0.5 > > > > Firmware: > > * QLA2460: > > BIOS Version 1.12, Firmware Version: 4.00.23 > > * TS3310: > > Name library > > IBM Serial Number 1307494 > > 3576-MTL Firmware Version 320G.GS006 > > BSP Level BSP6.6 > > Last Update 9/29/2006 1:18 > > * ULT3580-TD3 drives: > > Firmware Level: 69U2 > > > > Bacula: > > * 2.2.4, configured with "--prefix=/opt/bacula > > --with-postgresql=/opt/pgsql-8.1/ --with-openssl" > > > > Probably noone else is using such or similar configuration so will have > > to do myself some debugging to search for the reason. I'd like to ask > > you to help me: > > > > * how to place timestamp in SD log file? It is quite detailed, but > > almost impossible to correlate with IBMtaped trace file. > > > > * how to increase debug level in specific code? Most (all?) of my > > problems appear in stored/dev.c/DEVICE::fsf method. It would be nice to > > set detailed debugging only in this function instead of generating > > megabytes of unneeded messages. > > > > TIA, > > > > Mariusz Czulada > > ---------------------------------------------------- > CESARZOWA. Klątwa złotego kwiatu. Gong Li w filmie twórców > "Hero" i "Domu latajacych sztyletów". Najdroższa i największa > produkcja chińska wszech czasów! Już na DVD! > http://klik.wp.pl/?adr=http%3A%2F%2Fcorto.www.wp.pl%2Fas%2Fcesarzowa.html&s >id=42 > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. > Still grepping through log files to find problems? 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