Re: Amanda, FreeBSD8, amtype, hairpulling, etc.

2010-03-13 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail Account)
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On 12.03.2010 15:20, Svein Skogen wrote:
 I'm having trouble getting Amanda (2.6.1p2 from ports) to play nicely
 with my hardware.
 
 Devices are:
 HP Ultrium 3-SCSI Q25W   at scbus0 target 1 lun 0 (sa0,pass0)
 HP 1x8 G2 AUTOLDR 2.80   at scbus0 target 1 lun 1 (pass1,ch0)
 connected via:
 mpt0: LSILogic SAS/SATA Adapter port 0x9000-0x90ff mem
 0xfe4fc000-0xfe4f,0xfe4e-0xfe4e irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci2
 mpt0: [ITHREAD]
 mpt0: MPI Version=1.5.20.0
 
 os and number in question is:
 FreeBSD storage.stillbilde.net 8.0-STABLE FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE #0: Tue Mar
  9 07:01:59 UTC 2010
 sv...@storage.stillbilde.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
 
 Tapes are regular LTO-3 (HP C7973A).
 
 amtapetype simply hangs (after writing 3-4 tps for 5 seconds, then
 simple silence both on sa0 and console)
 
 Has anybody run into this problem with FreeBSD8+mpt+autoloader?
 
 //Svein
 

I'm finally starting to make sense of what I'm seeing (hence the
crossposting)

Seems I've stumbled onto some strange incompatibility between my SAS
controller (LSI 3801E), Tape-library, and FreeBSD+Solaris.

The behavior I'm seeing is consistent with this solaris bug:

http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6894775

but luckily (?) for me, my disks are on an MFI controller. I'm seeing
the exact same behavior in both FreeBSD and OpenSolaris 133 and 134.

Linux and Windows installs on the box (this box is currently being set
up, so I'm rather liberated from reinstall-concerns) seems unaffected,
atleast the HP Software doesn't fail the way
tar/dump/dd/amanda/bacula/whatnot does at random intervals.

The errors only occur when the device I'm reading/writing from is 100%
laoded (reading or writing 56mb/sec + compression), which when fed from
a raid capable of more than 6 times that is quite likely to happen
during backups.

The Solaris bug seems to be around MSI handling, but there are several
reports over there about this error occuring even with MSI disabled.

Right now I'm dumbstruck about this, and might install Linux just to
get backups up and running this year, because I'm too tired of this
entire process, but I'd REALLY rather run FreeBSD or OpenSolaris. This
is based on a personal preference and nothing else, but if anybody has
some blinding insights on how to get this working, I'm open for suggestions.

//Svein


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Re: Amanda, FreeBSD8, amtype, hairpulling, etc.

2010-03-13 Thread Diego F. Arias R.
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Svein Skogen (Listmail Account) 
svein-listm...@stillbilde.net wrote:

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 On 12.03.2010 15:20, Svein Skogen wrote:
  I'm having trouble getting Amanda (2.6.1p2 from ports) to play nicely
  with my hardware.
 
  Devices are:
  HP Ultrium 3-SCSI Q25W   at scbus0 target 1 lun 0 (sa0,pass0)
  HP 1x8 G2 AUTOLDR 2.80   at scbus0 target 1 lun 1 (pass1,ch0)
  connected via:
  mpt0: LSILogic SAS/SATA Adapter port 0x9000-0x90ff mem
  0xfe4fc000-0xfe4f,0xfe4e-0xfe4e irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci2
  mpt0: [ITHREAD]
  mpt0: MPI Version=1.5.20.0
 
  os and number in question is:
  FreeBSD storage.stillbilde.net 8.0-STABLE FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE #0: Tue Mar
   9 07:01:59 UTC 2010
  sv...@storage.stillbilde.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
 
  Tapes are regular LTO-3 (HP C7973A).
 
  amtapetype simply hangs (after writing 3-4 tps for 5 seconds, then
  simple silence both on sa0 and console)
 
  Has anybody run into this problem with FreeBSD8+mpt+autoloader?
 
  //Svein
 

 I'm finally starting to make sense of what I'm seeing (hence the
 crossposting)

 Seems I've stumbled onto some strange incompatibility between my SAS
 controller (LSI 3801E), Tape-library, and FreeBSD+Solaris.

 The behavior I'm seeing is consistent with this solaris bug:

 http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6894775

 but luckily (?) for me, my disks are on an MFI controller. I'm seeing
 the exact same behavior in both FreeBSD and OpenSolaris 133 and 134.

 Linux and Windows installs on the box (this box is currently being set
 up, so I'm rather liberated from reinstall-concerns) seems unaffected,
 atleast the HP Software doesn't fail the way
 tar/dump/dd/amanda/bacula/whatnot does at random intervals.

 The errors only occur when the device I'm reading/writing from is 100%
 laoded (reading or writing 56mb/sec + compression), which when fed from
 a raid capable of more than 6 times that is quite likely to happen
 during backups.

 The Solaris bug seems to be around MSI handling, but there are several
 reports over there about this error occuring even with MSI disabled.

 Right now I'm dumbstruck about this, and might install Linux just to
 get backups up and running this year, because I'm too tired of this
 entire process, but I'd REALLY rather run FreeBSD or OpenSolaris. This
 is based on a personal preference and nothing else, but if anybody has
 some blinding insights on how to get this working, I'm open for
 suggestions.

 if there is a hardware/driver bug isnt possible to get another cheap sas
controller for your tape, maybe a second hand?
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Amanda, FreeBSD8, amtype, hairpulling, etc.

2010-03-12 Thread Svein Skogen
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I'm having trouble getting Amanda (2.6.1p2 from ports) to play nicely
with my hardware.

Devices are:
HP Ultrium 3-SCSI Q25W   at scbus0 target 1 lun 0 (sa0,pass0)
HP 1x8 G2 AUTOLDR 2.80   at scbus0 target 1 lun 1 (pass1,ch0)
connected via:
mpt0: LSILogic SAS/SATA Adapter port 0x9000-0x90ff mem
0xfe4fc000-0xfe4f,0xfe4e-0xfe4e irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci2
mpt0: [ITHREAD]
mpt0: MPI Version=1.5.20.0

os and number in question is:
FreeBSD storage.stillbilde.net 8.0-STABLE FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE #0: Tue Mar
 9 07:01:59 UTC 2010
sv...@storage.stillbilde.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64

Tapes are regular LTO-3 (HP C7973A).

amtapetype simply hangs (after writing 3-4 tps for 5 seconds, then
simple silence both on sa0 and console)

Has anybody run into this problem with FreeBSD8+mpt+autoloader?

//Svein

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Re: Amanda, FreeBSD8, amtype, hairpulling, etc.

2010-03-12 Thread Svein Skogen
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On 12.03.2010 17:07, Dennis Glatting wrote:
 I have had problems with tapes under FreeBSD -- and other operating
 systems. :) My suggestion is to make sure you are running a patched
 kernel (i.e., RELENG_8) and to make sure there are no interface
 problems. Both of these areas have caused me much pain.

RELENG_8:   Check.
Other operating systems:Check.  (gives another sort of grief in
OpenSolaris, but just as flaky)
Works in Windoes:   Check   (This is the annoying part)

//Svein

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