DAT Drive not recognized

Tue Nov 9 13:59:18 GMT 2004

Paul Grunwald wrote:

>Hi all,  I'm trying to get a DAT drive working on a server.
>
>Server is a Dell 2450 w/ PERC3/Si controller.  There are 4 Drives in RAID 5
>and they are recognized.  Controller has been updated to version 2.8 build
>6092 firmware. The 4 hard drives are on channels 0-3 and seen by bios and
>FreeBSD as a RAID 5 container.  DAT drive is a Seagate STD2401LW (now
>certance http://www.certance.com/products/dds-dat/dds-4/STD2401LW-S)
>
>DAT is set with default jumpers (channel 6, parity on, termination power
>off), switches are all on.  I also tried with switch 10 off ((Inquiry String
>Switch (Switch 10)
>Switch 10 is used to select the Vendor ID that the drive returns when
>queried with a SCSI Inquiry command. When switch 10 is ON (the default
>setting), the Vendor ID is "SEAGATE DAT." When switch 10 is OFF the Vendor
>ID is "ARCHIVE Python." The "ARCHIVE Python" Vendor ID may be used by
>independent software vendors to provide software compatibility with previous
>Seagate DDS tape drives.)  The manual says that switches 5-8 are on for
>Linux.  Drive had be reported to work under RH 7.2 but I did not see that
>with my own eyes.
>
>DAT Drive is recognized by the PERC bios at channel 6 with both of the above
>strings from switch 10 positions.
>
>
>Kernel is default GENERIC 5.3 and appears to have scbus, pass, and sa
>drivers compiled in as per /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC
>
>Camcontrol devlist does not return anything.
>
>What do I need to do to get the kernel to recognize the drive?  Any help is
>greatly appreciated.
>
>Thanks,
>Paul
>
>
>
>Output of Dmesg
>-------
>
>Copyright (c) 1992-2004 The FreeBSD Project.
>Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
>        The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
>FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE #0: Fri Nov  5 04:19:18 UTC 2004
>    root at harlow.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
>Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
>CPU: Intel Pentium III (860.89-MHz 686-class CPU)
>  Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x686  Stepping = 6
> 
>Features=0x383fbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,
>CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE>
>real memory  = 536862720 (511 MB)
>avail memory = 515690496 (491 MB)
>ACPI APIC Table: <DELL   PE2450  >
>ioapic0: Changing APIC ID to 1
>ioapic1: Changing APIC ID to 2
>MADT: Forcing active-low polarity and level trigger for SCI
>ioapic0 <Version 1.1> irqs 0-15 on motherboard
>ioapic1 <Version 1.1> irqs 16-31 on motherboard
>npx0: [FAST]
>npx0: <math processor> on motherboard
>npx0: INT 16 interface
>acpi0: <DELL PE2450> on motherboard
>acpi0: Power Button (fixed)
>Timecounter "ACPI-safe" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000
>acpi_timer0: <32-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x808-0x80b on acpi0
>cpu0: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0
>pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> on acpi0
>pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0
>pci0: <display, VGA> at device 14.0 (no driver attached)
>isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> port 0x580-0x58f at device 15.0 on pci0
>isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
>atapci0: <ServerWorks ROSB4 UDMA33 controller> port
>0x8b0-0x8bf,0x376,0x170-0x177,0x3f6,0x1f0-0x1f7 at device 15.1 on pci0
>ata0: channel #0 on atapci0
>ata1: channel #1 on atapci0
>ohci0: <OHCI (generic) USB controller> mem 0xfe000000-0xfe000fff irq 11 at
>device 15.2 on pci0
>ohci0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
>usb0: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support
>usb0: <OHCI (generic) USB controller> on ohci0
>usb0: USB revision 1.0
>uhub0: (0x1166) OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
>uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
>pcib1: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> on acpi0
>pci1: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib1
>pcib2: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 2.0 on pci1
>pci2: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib2
>aac0: <Dell PERC 3/Si> mem 0xf0000000-0xf3ffffff irq 31 at device 2.1 on
>pci1
>aac0: [FAST]
>aac0: i960RX 100MHz, 54MB cache memory, no battery support
>aac0: Kernel 2.8-0, Build 6092, S/N bc01d0
>aac0: Supported
>Options=635c<WCACHE,DATA64,HOSTTIME,WINDOW4GB,SOFTERR,NORECOND>
>fxp0: <Intel 82559 Pro/100 Ethernet> port 0xdcc0-0xdcff mem
>0xf9000000-0xf90fffff,0xf9100000-0xf9100fff irq 16 at device 8.0 on pci1
>miibus0: <MII bus> on fxp0
>inphy0: <i82555 10/100 media interface> on miibus0
>inphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
>fxp0: Ethernet address: 00:b0:d0:e1:77:27
>fdc0: <floppy drive controller> port 0x3f7,0x3f0-0x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0
>fdc0: [FAST]
>fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
>atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> port 0x64,0x60 irq 1 on acpi0
>atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> irq 1 on atkbdc0
>kbd0 at atkbd0
>atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
>psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0
>psm0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
>psm0: model Generic PS/2 mouse, device ID 0
>sio0: <16550A-compatible COM port> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on
>acpi0
>sio0: type 16550A
>sio1: <16550A-compatible COM port> port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on acpi0
>sio1: type 16550A
>ppc0: <ECP parallel printer port> port 0x778-0x77f,0x378-0x37f irq 7 on
>acpi0
>ppc0: Generic chipset (ECP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode
>ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/8 bytes threshold
>ppbus0: <Parallel port bus> on ppc0
>plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus0
>lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0
>lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
>ppi0: <Parallel I/O> on ppbus0
>orm0: <ISA Option ROMs> at iomem
>0xec000-0xeffff,0xc8000-0xcbfff,0xc0000-0xc7fff on isa0
>pmtimer0 on isa0
>sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
>sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
>vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
>Timecounter "TSC" frequency 860887479 Hz quality 800
>Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec
>acd0: CDROM <TEAC CD-ROM CD-224E/3.7D> at ata0-master UDMA33
>aacd0: <RAID 5> on aac0
>aacd0: 52067MB (106633344 sectors)
>Mounting root from ufs:/dev/aacd0s1a
>
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As far as i know, there are some problems with the scsi passthrough in
an mixed RAID and Tape configuration. The best way is to use a different
controler for the tape unit

greetz

Jeroen Molinger