Re: [Scsirastools-developers] New user

[Daniel S. <ma...@my...>]

Cress, Andrew R napsal(a):
> Daniel,
> 
> The sgsafte log was revealing.  
> Apparently most of your Fujitsu disks seem to have exactly the same
> serial number.
> The serial number is used to judge when Linux is confused and reports
> the same physical device on another /dev/sg* device (an impostor), so
> they get marked failed.  It must be unique by the SCSI-2 standard. 
> 
> Hmmm.   Fujitsu often has longer 12-byte serial numbers and is in the
> vend12 list in sgsafte.c to handle that.  There is also a -m option to
> tell it to use longer 12-byte serial numbers, can you  try sgsafte -m ?
> 
> 
There is output sgsafte -m -x and  sgsafte -m . But situation is the same.
But remember this is s Sun hardware :-)

			Dan




> Andy
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Smolik [mailto:ma...@my...] 
> Sent: Friday, February 23, 2007 4:07 PM
> To: Cress, Andrew R; scs...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Scsirastools-developers] New user
> 
> Cress, Andrew R napsal(a):
> 
>>Ah, now we are getting somewhere.  There is a later version of mdadm
>>that might compile better than the one I have copied in this tree.  
>>But, the main issue:
>>It looks like we have functioning sg* tools, but there is an issue
> 
> with
> 
>>the devices on bus 5:
>>4 /dev/sg4 /dev/sdd 5:0:0:0 Disk SEAGATE  ST39103LCSUN9.0G 034A
>>9949862528 ready
>>5 /dev/sg5 /dev/sde 5:0:1:0 Disk
>>failed
>>
>>The next step would be some debug.
>>1) "cat /proc/scsi/scsi" to see if these devices show up there.
>>2) "sgsafte -x" and attach /var/log/sgsafte.log
>>3) "sgdiag -x" and attach /var/log/sgdiag.log
>>4) "tail /var/log/messages" to see if there is any detail around the
> 
> bus
> 
>>error.
>>
>>This should tell me why a bus error is occurring.  
>>It could be something physical, like termination, or it could be a
>>software bug of some sort.  
> 
> Hi,
> there are some logs that you want.
> 
> 			Regards
> 					Dan


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