Hello George,
I have the same card on our backup server - Dell PowerEdge 2850, my initial
problem when I first installed this card is that I cannot see the tape drives,
so LSI Tech. support advised to 'Flush' the BIOS and reload it with a software
that will make it just a plain SCSI controller and not a RAID controller. Have
you done this?
regards,
Librado Pamintuan
Technical Support Analyst II
Information Systems Dep.
Operations Group
City of Regina
Phone: (306) 777-7573
General Fax: (306) 777-6804
eFax: (306) 546-6002
eMail: lpamintuan AT regina DOT ca
>>> George.Sinclair AT NOAA DOT GOV 23/Dec/2005 9:38 am >>>
Hi,
First, if someone can suggest a better site that I could get help on
this issue from, please let me know. LSI, Storagetek, Legato, and
Quantum have been unable to resolve this thus far. Everyone seems to
think the problem is not on their end.
Our Linux RedHat storage node host (Dell powerEdge 6600) generates SCSI
bus reset messages in the system log almost daily (different times) for
the library picker or more specifically for the scsi id being used by
the robot. Is it possible that too many groups running could cause this
or maybe something isn't configured properly in Legato? From the looks
of the messages, his just doesn't appear to be a Legato NetWorker problem.
I was labeling some tapes last night, nothing else going on, and
suddenly it just hangs. Sure enough, another SCSI bus reset reported for
the picker. We've had Storagetek replace the robotic controller card in
the library and the internal SCSI cable, and it's still occurring. We're
using LVD tape libraries (STL L80 w/ 4 LTO-1 drives) and P1000 SDLT w/2
SDLT-1 drives).
We tried replacing cards, SCSI cables, moving cards to different PCI
slots in the hosts, different servers, different drivers, etc. Still,
same problem. We were having a similar problem with Adaptec 39160s so we
switched to LSI.
We're using LSI-22320-R dual channel 320 cards. I've seen this occur
sometimes also on our Quantum library. Quantum says that Raid controller
cards can cause problems for pickers, but LSI says this card should work
fine. It has RAID 0 and 1 (striping and mirroring) capabilities, but it
should otherwise function just like any LVD/SE card. We've not
configured these cards to do any RAID stuff. There is no option,
however, to specifically turn it off. There are various speeds that can
be set on all the devices on each channel. The default (highest) is 320,
but you can go down to lower speeds, e.g. 160, 80, 40, 20, all the way
down to 'ASYNC'. I've tried different speeds on the picker, down to 80
so far. I would think the devices would auto negotiate, anyway. The
picker is on its own channel at id 0. The drives are on their own
channels at ids 2,3,4 and 5. Should the picker be at a lower speed,
maybe even ASYNC? Maybe I should try changing the picker to a higher ID
like 6 or 8?
Dec 23 15:01:31 santana kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout :
pid 78695, scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Move medium/play audio(12) 00
00 00 01 f5 04 1c 00 00 00 00
Dec 23 15:01:31 snode1 kernel: mptscsih: ioc0: id=0 OldAbort: scheduling
ABORT SCSI IO (sc=f6111200)
Dec 23 15:01:31 snode1 kernel: mptbase: Initiating ioc0 recovery
Dec 23 15:01:32 snode1 kernel: SCSI host 2 abort (pid 78695) timed out -
resetting
Dec 23 15:01:32 snode1 kernel: SCSI bus is being reset for host 2 channel 0.
Thanks.
George
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