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From: paulo.herman <pau...@ig...> - 2005-07-25 20:01:22
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Dear Sirs, I need help, and below i send the transcript of my last email with suport of Vipower Company, but, with no success... I'm sorry for this long long email.. -----------------------My problem... ----------------------- I need help on Linux RedHat 4. kernel-2.6.9-11 with firewire enabled. On tutorial from Oracle (http://www.puschitz.com/InstallingOracle10gRAC.shtml#ConfiguringFireWireBasedSharedStorage ) and on the step bellow, its clear that firewire driver / firmware have to enable "Multiple Logins" like two or more micro-computers acessing the same hard-disk firewire, but i have the following messages/errors: ============================ step from dmesg of my microcomputer "node2" ================== ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[00110666455573f4] NET: Registered protocol family 10 Disabled Privacy Extensions on device c03694e0(lo) ieee1394: Node added: ID:BUS[0-01:1023] GUID[00101003000024ab] ieee1394: The root node is not cycle master capable; selecting a new root node and resetting... IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver divert: not allocating divert_blk for non-ethernet device sit0 ieee1394: Node changed: 0-01:1023 -> 0-00:1023 ieee1394: Node changed: 0-00:1023 -> 0-01:1023 scsi0 : SCSI emulation for IEEE-1394 SBP-2 Devices ieee1394: sbp2: Error querying logins to SBP-2 device - timed out ieee1394: sbp2: Device does not support any more concurrent logins sbp2: probe of 00101003000024ab-0 failed with error -16 scsi1 : SCSI emulation for IEEE-1394 SBP-2 Devices ieee1394: sbp2: Error querying logins to SBP-2 device - timed out ieee1394: sbp2: Device does not support any more concurrent logins sbp2: probe of 00101003000024ab-0 failed with error -16 ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF] ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SLPB] EXT3 FS on hda5, internal journal device-mapper: 4.4.0-ioctl (2005-01-12) initialised: dm...@uk... cdrom: open failed. =========================================== END =================================== I have based my install on the following tutorial bellow = Oracle Tutorial to enable a Oracle RAC with hard-disk firewire === Configuring FireWire-based Shared Storage First make sure that the experimental kernel for FireWire drives was installed and that the server was rebooted (see Upgrading the Linux Kernel for FireWire Shared Disks Only): # uname -r 2.4.21-15.ELorafw1 To load the kernel modules/drivers for the FireWire drive(s), add the following entry to the /etc/modules.conf file: alias ieee1394-controller ohci1394 post-install ohci1394 modprobe sd_mod The alias directive ieee1394-controller is used by Red Hat during the boot process. When you check the /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit file, which is invoked by /etc/inittab during the boot process, you will find the following code that searches for the ieee1394-controller stanza in /etc/modules.conf: if ! strstr "$cmdline" nofirewire ; then aliases=`/sbin/modprobe -c | awk '/^alias ieee1394-controller/ { print $3 }'` if [ -n "$aliases" -a "$aliases" != "off" ]; then for alias in $aliases ; do [ "$alias" = "off" ] && continue action $"Initializing firewire controller ($alias): " modprobe $alias done LC_ALL=C grep -q "SBP2" /proc/bus/ieee1394/devices 2>/dev/null && \ modprobe sbp2 >/dev/null 2>&1 fi fi This means that all the kernel modules for the FireWire drive(s) will be loaded automatically during the next reboot and your drive(s) should be ready for use. To load the modules or the firewire stack right away without rebooting the server, execute the following commands: su - root modprobe ieee1394-controller; modprobe sd_mod If everything worked fine, the following modules should be loaded: su - root # lsmod |egrep "ohci1394|sbp2|ieee1394|sd_mod|scsi_mod" sbp2 19724 0 ohci1394 28008 0 (unused) ieee1394 62884 0 [sbp2 ohci1394] sd_mod 13424 0 scsi_mod 104616 5 [sbp2 sd_mod sg sr_mod ide-scsi] # And when you run dmesg, you should see entries similar to this example: # dmesg ... ohci1394_0: OHCI-1394 1.0 (PCI): IRQ=[11] MMIO=[f2000000-f20007ff] Max Packet=[2048] ieee1394: Device added: Node[00:1023] GUID[0010b9f70089de1c] [Maxtor] scsi1 : SCSI emulation for IEEE-1394 SBP-2 Devices blk: queue cf172e14, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) ieee1394: ConfigROM quadlet transaction error for node 01:1023 ieee1394: Host added: Node[02:1023] GUID[00110600000032a0] [Linux OHCI-1394] ieee1394: sbp2: Query logins to SBP-2 device successful ieee1394: sbp2: Maximum concurrent logins supported: 3 ieee1394: sbp2: Number of active logins: 0 ieee1394: sbp2: Logged into SBP-2 device ieee1394: sbp2: Node[00:1023]: Max speed [S400] - Max payload [2048] Vendor: Maxtor Model: OneTouch Rev: 0200 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 06 blk: queue cd0fb014, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) Attached scsi disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 SCSI device sda: 398295040 512-byte hdwr sectors (203927 MB) sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 < sda5 sda6 sda7 sda8 sda9 sda10 sda11 sda12 sda13 > In this example, the kernel reported that the FireWire drive can be shared concurrently by 3 servers (see "Maximum concurrent logins supported:"). It is very important that you have a drive with a chipset and firmware that supports concurrent access for the nodes. The "Number of active logins:" shows how many servers are already sharing/using the drive before this server added the drive to its system. If everything worked fine, you should be able to see now your FireWire drive(s): su - root # fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 30515 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 6375 51207156 83 Linux /dev/sda2 6376 12750 51207187+ 83 Linux ... =============================== END ========================= Please Sirs i need help but anyone on Vipower company answer my queryes by e-mail and i think that i have a bad product (VP9054 unit and VP9008 Smart-Cable) on my hands... Atenciosamente, Paulo Herman |