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Date:      Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:37:16 -0500
From:      Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com>
To:        Grant Peel <gpeel@thenetnow.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Dell SAS5/IR
Message-ID:  <AANLkTiltwT2GZDSlGcamGgUz3V7595iFKNXsXzLaT5Wk@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <283E1E509AB1496E93FA10385C1B745B@GRANTPC>
References:  <283E1E509AB1496E93FA10385C1B745B@GRANTPC>

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On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Grant Peel <gpeel@thenetnow.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I was attempiting to restage a server last night to no avail. It is a Dell
> 860 with a LSI SAS (Dell SAS5/SI) controller.
>
> This was happening when I was dumping the filesystems from a USB memory
> stick (da1s1) to the hard drive (Seagate 76 GIG SAS - da0s1).
>
> Can anyone tell me if they have seen this before? or if it is a Hard disk
> problem, or a problem with the SAS controller, or is it a FreeBSD problem?
>
> I ahve donwloaded the latest SAS firmware and installed it, ran the Dell 32
> Bit diags,  ran the drive diagnostics, etc etc and everything passes with no
> errors.
>
> I simply cant install dumps, or install a fresh copy of freebsd.
>
> I have snapshots of what the console iis showing, but in a nutshell:
>
> (da0:mpt:0:0:0:0): Synchonize cahce failed, status =0x4a, scsi status = 0x0
> (da0:mpt:0:0:0:0): removing device entry
> Device /da0s1e went missing before all of the data could be written to it,
> expect data loss
>
> I have snapshots if anyone wants me to send them off list.
>
> Any possible resalutions ?
>

The way I read your problem is that you are dumping a slice with partitions
to another slice correct?

I don't think that works, dump(1) works on the filesystem level, so a
partition by partition dump and restore is needed.

-- 
Adam Vande More



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