Boot hangs on mpt0: failing to detect tape drive
Matthew Jacob
lydianconcepts at gmail.com
Wed Mar 8 20:14:12 UTC 2006
Hmm. On rereading your original mail, I see you mention another
LSI-Logic controller. Can you please put that in your system and
connect the tape drive to that?
On 3/7/06, Andrew MacLeod <a.macleod at ballarat.edu.au> wrote:
> Ok, ill try my best.
>
> This LSI Config Utility shows up 2 adapters as follows
>
> Adapter PCI Bus Dev/func Port IRQ NVM Boot Order LSI Logic
> Control RAID Status
> LSI1030 2 29> CC00 11 YES 0
> enabled --
> LSI1030 2 28> C800 7 YES 1
> enabled --
>
> We have tried altering some of the settings but nothing seems relevant.
> The LSI MegaRaid utility where we setup the RAID is equally unhelpful,
> but i would appreciate any advice in regard to what i should be seeing
> in these tools as my hardware knowledge is only basic. Should I be able
> to see the tape drive itself in the LSI Logic utility?
>
> In regard to the tape drive Im Not sure exactly what you mean by
> "Powered on". It has power connected and we have tried booting with a
> tape inserted. It seems to function correctly in terms of loading
> tapes/lights etc. We have not altered any of the jumper settings as we
> assumed that it would have been setup correctly.
>
> I booted with the w/o the tape hooked up and it booted fine. Hooked up
> the tape and the following is the output of the camcontrol rescan all
> command
>
> Re-scan of bus 0 was successful
> Re-scan of bus 1 was successful
> Re-scan of bus 2 was successful
> Re-scan of bus 3 was successful
> Re-scan of bus 4 was successful
> Re-scan of bus 5 was successful
> Re-scan of bus 6 was successful
> Re-scan of bus 7 was successful
>
> camcontrol devlist -v shows
>
> scbus0 on amr0 bus0
> scbus1 on amr0 bus1
> scbus2 on amr1 bus0
> <ESG -SHV SCA HSBP M29 1.06> at scbus2 target 6 lun 0
> (ses0 pass0)
> scbus3 on amr1 bus1
> scbus4 on mpt0 bus0
> < > at
> scbus4 target -1 lun -1 ()
> scbus5 on mpt0 bus0
> < > at
> scbus5 target -1 lun -1 ()
> scbus6 on mpt0 bus0
> < > at
> scbus6 target -1 lun -1 ()
> scbus7 on mpt0 bus0
> < > at
> scbus7 target -1 lun -1 ()
> scbus-1 on xpt0 bus0
> < > at
> scbus-1 target -1 lun -1 (xpt0)
>
> I have had to transcribe the above so please forgive any errors. Had no
> success upon reboot.
>
> Cheers
> Andrew
>
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> ____________________________________________________________________
> Andrew Macleod
> Technical Manager
> Centre for Electronic Commerce and Communications
> University of Ballarat
> Registered Provider Number 00103D
>
> Suite 12A Greenhill Enterprise Centre
> University Drv Mt Helen 3350
> Tel: +61 3 5327 9315
> Email: a.macleod at ballarat.edu.au
>
> >>> "Matthew Jacob" <lydianconcepts at gmail.com> 7/03/2006 3:39 am >>>
> Lot's of problems here.... When you say "had no luck with BIOS"- that
> means you can see it no problem in the LSI Config utility?
>
> First- is the tape drive powered on?
>
> Also- try this experiment: boot w/o the tape hooked up. If all is
> well, connect the tape and do, as root, 'camcontrol rescan all'.
>
>
>
> On 3/5/06, Andrew MacLeod <a.macleod at ballarat.edu.au> wrote:
> > Currently trying to install freebsd on a new ACER Altos R710 server.
> > Having problems on bootup where it seems not able to detect the
> Internal
> > Sony AIT-2 Turbo tape drive. System hangs at mpt0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
> for
> > five minutes then several messages like the following:
> >
> > mpt0: Soft Reset Failed: ack timeout
> > mpt0: WARNING - Failed Hard Reset
> > mpt0: failed to reset device
> > mpt0: soft reset failed: device not running.
> > IOcmpt: LSILogic 1030 Ultra4 adapter.....
> >
> > When I disconnect the tape drive from the SCSI card system boots
> fine.
> > I am running Freebsd 6.0-Release with a slightly modified GENERIC
> Kernel
> > to enable SMP and PF.
> > I am not a hardward expert but I will try to explain the setup of
> the
> > system as best I can. The server is a dual xeon with 5x73GB SCSI
> hard
> > discs which we have setup in a combination of RAID 1 for the
> operating
> > system and RAID 5 for the data. These run on an LSILogic 2 channel
> SCSI
> > card. The system has an identical 2nd LSILogic SCSI card which the
> > vendor assured us was needed to run the Tape Drive. However the
> > Motherboard also has onboard SCSI support and the tape drive is
> > connected to this. The tape drive has a terminator attached. We have
> > attempted to attach the tape drive to both the secondary channel on
> the
> > primary SCSI card and both channels on the secondary one and the
> system
> > hangs on SCSI initialisation prior to reaching freebsd. We have had
> no
> > luck altering settings in the LSILogic configuration utility or in
> the
> > system BIOS.
> >
> > Any assistance would be much appreciated as my next step is to try
> an
> > alternate O/S to see if this is hardware or system related.
> >
> > Kind Regards
> > Andrew
> >
> > ____________________________________________________________________
> > Andrew Macleod
> > Technical Manager
> > Centre for Electronic Commerce and Communications
> > University of Ballarat
> > Registered Provider Number 00103D
> >
> > Suite 12A Greenhill Enterprise Centre
> > University Drv Mt Helen 3350
> > Tel: +61 3 5327 9315
> > Email: a.macleod at ballarat.edu.au
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