ibm xseries 235 - tape on ipsraid not work properly ?

[svenko]

I can't backup large files on tape drive (ibm xSerise 235
and dual channel ipsraid controller).

Tape status is OK and tests with small (1K) files are OK.

 

[Annihilannic]

Some error messages and the commands you are trying to use would be helpful. Also the operating system version.

Annihilannic.

 

[PHV]

Are you sure that your raid controller admit tape device ?

Hope This Help
PH.

 

[svenko]

I can't backup large files on tape drive (ibm xSerise 235
and dual channel ipsraid controller).

Tape status is OK and tests with small (1K) files are OK.



It’s SCO OS 5.0.6 + RS506A

My hwconfig and notice status :



SCO OpenServer(TM) Release 5

(C) 1976-2000 The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
(C) 1980-1994 Microsoft Corporation
All rights reserved.

For complete copyright credits,
enter "copyrights" at the command prompt.

device address vec dma comment
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%kernel - - - rel=3.2v5.0.6 kid=2000-07-27
%cpu - - - unit=1 family=15
%cpuid - - - unit=1 vend=GenuineIntel tfms=0:15:2:7
%fpu - 13 - unit=1 type=80387-compatible
%pci 0x0CF8-0x0CFF - - am=1 sc=1 buses=11
%PnP - - - nodes=0
%clock - - - type=TSC/2394753693Hz
%serial 0x03F8-0x03FF 4 - unit=0 type=Standard nports=1 fifo=yes
%console - - - unit=vga type=0 num=12 scoansi=1 scroll=50
%floppy 0x03F2-0x03F7 6 2 unit=0 type=135ds18
%parallel 0x0378-0x037A 7 - unit=0
%adapter 0x01F0-0x01F7 14 - type=IDE ctlr=primary dvr=wd
%ipsraid - 9 - type=ips ha=0 id=15 fts=sd v5.11.05
%bcme0 - 3 - chip=BCM5703 mem=FBFF0000 phy=BCM5703 addr=00:02:55:07:c7:14
%cd-rom - - - type=IDE ctlr=pri cfg=mst dvr=Srom->wd
%tape - - - type=S ha=0 id=6 lun=0 bus=2 ht=ips
%disk - - - type=S ha=0 id=0 lun=0 bus=0 ht=ips
%Sdsk - - - cyls=4442 hds=254 secs=63 fts=stdb
mem: total = 523856k, kernel = 67624k, user = 456232k
swapdev = 1/41, swplo = 0, nswap = 1024000, swapmem = 512000k
Autoboot from rootdev = 1/42, pipedev = 1/42, dumpdev = 1/41
kernel: Hz = 100, i/o bufs = 52032k (high bufs = 51008k)

NOTICE: bcme0: NIC Link is Up 100Mbps full duplex
Wed Jun 4 04:29:19 2003
%disk - - - type=S ha=0 id=1 lun=0 bus=0 ht=ips
%Sdsk - - - cyls=4442 hds=254 secs=63 fts=stdb
Thu Jun 5 08:54:48 2003
%Stp-0 - - - Vendor=SEAGATE Product=DAT 9SP40-000

NOTICE: (ips0): Resetting controller.
Thu Jun 5 15:21:43 2003

 

[tungtungt]

hi,

do you try change the timeout and the speed for the
ipsraid controller under the raid-bios setting ?

hope this can help.

 

[seru]

Hi,


>do you try change the timeout and the speed for the
>ipsraid controller under the raid-bios setting ?

How can you do this ?
Where is the raid-bios setting ?

SR.

 

[Annihilannic]

Usually the RAID BIOS is accessible when you are booting the computer; usually you will see a message such as "Press Ctrl-M to enter RAID BIOS configuration...".

Sometimes there is a utility installed in your Operating System with the RAID driver; for example with the AMI MegaRAID devices there is a utility called /etc/megamgr which gives you an identical interface to the one in the BIOS.

Annihilannic.

 

[bksnbg]

Did you use Driver Version 6.10 (including Controller-Firmware) ?
I have similar problem with 5.0.7 and Raid5i.
I get this messages in /etc/messages
and system hangs for minutes and
filesystems are inconsistent:

NOTICE: (ips0): Resetting controller.
NOTICE: Sdsk: Unrecoverable error writing SCSI disk 1 dev 1/96 (ha=0 bus=0 id=1
NOTICE: Sdsk: Unrecoverable error writing SCSI disk 1 dev 1/96 (ha=0 bus=0 id=1
NOTICE: Sdsk: Unrecoverable error writing SCSI disk 0 dev 1/42 (ha=0 bus=0 id=0
and so on.

hwconfig is;
%ipsraid - 9 - type=ips ha=0 id=15 fts=sd v6.10.24

No help comes from IBM, because x345 does only support 5.0.6a.

Regards
Siggi