Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 14:18:03 +0200 From: Oliver Hoffmann <oliver.hoffmann@uw-service.de> To: freebsd-firewire@freebsd.org Subject: Very odd problems. Message-ID: <200306301418.03705.oliver.hoffmann@uw-service.de>
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Hi list! My attempt is to make backups to external firewire-hds, because they are much cheaper and faster than tapes. I have two servers which are almost identical. The first one has FreeBSD 4.8 Release running on an Athlon1000 with an Asus board. Two ICP-Vortex controller with two raids (both 42 GB, level 5) are attached. fw-card is the Texas Instruments TSB12LV26. I connected an external 5.25" case (probably oxford 911, but I couldn't find it out) with an mobilerack inside. In this rack is a wd80 (wd800BB-00CAA1) harddisk. This system works (I would say 90% stable). The second one runs FreeBSD 4.8-RC1 on an Athlon 1500+ with an Abit motherboard. It has one ICP with a bigger raid (ca. 200 GB, level 5). Hence the external harddisks have 160 GB (Maxtor 6Y160PO). All the firewire-parts are the same. That means the main differences are the hardisks and the FreeBSD-relaease. Btw, I had to take 4.8, because there isn't a support for vortex-controller in 5.0. This second server has permanently errors and sometimes automatically reboots or it crashes. I can see such errors (plenty of them) in the logs: /kernel: sbp0:0:0 Obj: Data buffer, Error: Time-out error /kernel: Unknown service addr 0x000000f0:0x16e800f0 tcode=5 /kernel: sbp0:0:0 request timeout ... agent reset I do the backups with simple shell-scripts: /sbin/kldload firewire /bin/sleep 10 /sbin/kldload sbp /bin/sleep 60 /sbin/fsck -y /dev/da1s1e /bin/sleep 20 /sbin/mount /dev/da1s1e /mnt/fw /bin/sleep 60 /bin/cp -R /mnt/raid1 /mnt/fw /bin/df -h /bin/sleep 240 /sbin/umount /dev/da1s1e /bin/sleep 60 /sbin/kldunload sbp /bin/sleep 60 /sbin/kldunload firewire /sbin/kldstat Maybe I exaggerated with the sleeptimes, but too short causes definitely problems. If the system reboots, it always does it after everything is copied. I hope that somebody can help me to get my system reasonabily working. Thanks for any help in advance! Regards, Oliver.
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