Hi,
We're seeing the following type of message(s) in our /var/log/messages
file on our storage node server:
Jun 10 13:54:24 hostname kernel: st0: Failed to read 131072 byte block
with 32768 byte read.
Jun 17 01:55:21 hostname kernel: st5: Failed to read 65536 byte block
with 32768 byte read.
These have been showing up pretty much daily as far back as the logs go
-- at least since mid to late May 2003. The ones for st0 and 1 show up
with the 131072 byte and the ones for st2, 3, 4 and 5 show up with the
65536. Often they are intermixed. We're running two libraries on this
Linux RedHat storage node server: One is a Quantum SDLT P1000 with two
SDLT drives (st0, st1) and the other is a Storagetek L80 with 4 LTO
drives (st2, 3, 4 and 5). We are having no problems with backups or
recoveries (actually, sometime back we we're seeing those "positioning
by record disabled" messages during recoveries, and that's when we
created the stinit.def file. We did not have one prior. This fixed that
problem and recoveries then worked like a champ. We've had no problems
since.) and we DO have an /etc/stinit.def file (see below). We are
running 6.1.1 on both the primary server (Solaris 8) and the storage
node (Linux Redhat 7.3).
The following is from a 'uname -a' on the storage node:
Linux hostname 2.4.20-13.7smp #1 SMP Mon May 12 12:31:27 EDT 2003 i686
unknown
I have considered upgrading to 6.1.3 (the last stable release prior to
7.0, or so I thought), but I've heard about some problems and didn't
want to rock the boat since everything seems to be running smoothly
under 6.1.1.
Would appreciate any help on this.
Thanks.
George
George.Sinclair AT noaa DOT gov
Here's a copy of the stinit.def file:
# Seagate Ultrium LTO
manufacturer=SEAGATE model = "ULTRIUM06242-XXX" {
scsi2logical=1 can-bsr auto-lock
mode1 blocksize=0
}
# SDLT220
manufacturer="QUANTUM" model = "SuperDLT1" {
scsi2logical=1
can-bsr=1
auto-lock=0
two-fms=0
drive-buffering=1
buffer-writes
read-ahead=1
async-writes=1
can-partitions=0
fast-mteom=1
#
# If your stinit supports the timeouts:
timeout=3600 # 1 hour
long-timeout=14400 # 4 hours
#
mode1 blocksize=0 density=0x48 compression=1 # 110 GB + compression
mode2 blocksize=0 density=0x48 compression=0 # 110 GB, no compression
}
We also have the following line at near the end of /etc/modules.conf:
post-install st /sbin/stinit
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