MD3000 on Debian.

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Hello,

Can you provide the entire dmesg output?

Thanks,

Mark

On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Fábio Catunda
<fcatunda at contactnet.com.br>wrote:

> Hi list,
>
> This is my first message to the list, please let me know if some
> information is missing to help solve the problem.
>
> We have a MD3000 storage and we are trying to make it work with a PE1950
> server with Debian Etch.
>
> During the boot time the controller - SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic
> / Symbios Logic SAS1068 PCI-X Fusion-MPT SAS (rev 01) - shows the MD3000
> virtual disk and also shows the virtual disk capacity - 1.6TB, so I
> imagine that the storage is correctly configured.
>
> I already created the host on the storage and give it permission to
> access the virtual disk (Host-to-virtual-disk-mapping).
>
> On the host side I can see the controller with
> # omreport storage controller
> ID                                : 1
> Status                            : Ok
> Name                              : SAS 5/E
> Slot ID                           : PCI Slot 2
> State                             : Ready
> Firmware Version                  : 00.10.51.00.06.12.05.00
> Minimum Required Firmware Version : Not Applicable
> Driver Version                    : 3.04.01
> Minimum Required Driver Version   : Not Applicable
> Number of Connectors              : 2
> Rebuild Rate                      : Not Applicable
> BGI Rate                          : Not Applicable
> Check Consistency Rate            : Not Applicable
> Reconstruct Rate                  : Not Applicable
> Alarm State                       : Not Applicable
> Cluster Mode                      : Not Applicable
> SCSI Initiator ID                 : Not Applicable
> Cache Memory Size                 : Not Applicable
> Patrol Read Mode                  : Not Applicable
> Patrol Read State                 : Not Applicable
> Patrol Read Rate                  : Not Applicable
> Patrol Read Iterations            : Not Applicable
>
> WIth lsiutil I have:
> #lsiutil
>  1.  /proc/mpt/ioc0    LSI Logic SAS1068E B3     105      00192f00     0
>  2.  /proc/mpt/ioc1    LSI Logic SAS1068 B0      105      000a3300     0
>
> option 2 chosen, option 42 chosen shows:
> /proc/mpt/ioc1 is SCSI host 1
>
>  B___T___L  Type       Operating System Device Name
>  0   0   0  Disk       /dev/sdb    [1:0:0:0]
>  0   0  31  Disk       /dev/sdc    [1:0:0:31]
>
> And finally I try to cfdisk /dev/sdb and I get:
> FATAL ERROR: Cannot read disk drive
>
> And dmesg shows me:
> Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 0
> Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 1
> Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 2
> Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 3
> end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 0
>
> I'm fighting against this error for a week now and I'm completely out of
> ideas.  I tried to install LSI drivers from their site, but I couldn't
> find any instructions to compile the source and RPM fails to install.
>
> Well, I don't know what else I can do, what should I install and etc, if
> somebody can help me I'll be glad.
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> Fabio Catunda.
>
>
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