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Sossi Andrej wrote:
>> On 16. 12. 2009 15:57, Miroslav Lachman wrote:
>> [...]
>> I use MD300i with FreeBSD 7.0 and 7.1 with iscsi-2.2.2. It work fine.
>> But be careful to configure MD3000i. MD3000i assign by default first
>> disk to preferred controller 0, second disk to preferred controller 1,
>> third disk to preferred controller 0, and so on. First, third, fifth...
>> disks is usable from FreeBSD, but second, fourth,... disks result unusable.
>> Work around: manually assign all disks to controller 0.
>
> When you say "unusable" do you mean you can't access it at all / it
> errors even if it's the only path (drive) used? It would be normal if
> you have for example two paths to each drive and can't mount the other
> path if one path to the drive is mounted - this is not a usable
> combination. You can use geom_multipath to get multipath failover.

I got errors even in unmounted state.
I tried iscsi-2.2.3 and got same errors. I tried second path first (device da0) and it produces same errors, then I run iscontrol for the first path (device da1) and everything is fine.

 ---- path throught second controller: ERROR ----
# diskinfo -t /dev/da0
/dev/da0
        512             # sectorsize
        2998998663168   # mediasize in bytes (2.7T)
        5857419264      # mediasize in sectors
        364607          # Cylinders according to firmware.
        255             # Heads according to firmware.
        63              # Sectors according to firmware.

Seek times:
Full stroke: diskinfo: read error or disk too small for test.: Invalid argument


 ---- path throught first controller: OK ----
# diskinfo -t /dev/da1
/dev/da1
        512             # sectorsize
        2998998663168   # mediasize in bytes (2.7T)
        5857419264      # mediasize in sectors
        364607          # Cylinders according to firmware.
        255             # Heads according to firmware.
        63              # Sectors according to firmware.

Seek times:
        Full stroke:      250 iter in   2.483517 sec =    9.934 msec
        Half stroke:      250 iter in   2.575778 sec =   10.303 msec
        Quarter stroke:   500 iter in   2.926170 sec =    5.852 msec
        Short forward:    400 iter in   0.916901 sec =    2.292 msec
        Short backward:   400 iter in   2.181790 sec =    5.454 msec
        Seq outer:       2048 iter in   0.520920 sec =    0.254 msec
        Seq inner:       2048 iter in   0.545300 sec =    0.266 msec
Transfer rates:
outside: 102400 kbytes in 1.414997 sec = 72368 kbytes/sec middle: 102400 kbytes in 1.454444 sec = 70405 kbytes/sec inside: 102400 kbytes in 1.422527 sec = 71985 kbytes/sec


Do you have experiences with iSCSI multipath? I read about geom_fox and gmultipath...

Miroslav Lachman
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