Problem with Adaptec 29320LPE

Greg Byshenk gbyshenk at byshenk.net
Mon Nov 24 04:10:51 PST 2008


On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 12:49:12PM +0100, Rink Springer wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 12:42:49PM +0100, Greg Byshenk wrote:
> > backuphost# camcontrol devlist
> > <SONY LIB-162 0208>                at scbus0 target 0 lun 0 (pass0,ch3)
> > <SONY SDX-1100 0102>               at scbus0 target 1 lun 0 (sa3,pass1)
> > <SONY LIB-162 0203>                at scbus0 target 2 lun 0 (pass2,ch4)
> > <SONY SDX-900V 0102>               at scbus0 target 3 lun 0 (sa4,pass3)
> > <AMCC 9650SE-16M DISK 3.06>        at scbus1 target 0 lun 0 (da0,pass4)
> > <AMCC 9650SE-16M DISK 3.06>        at scbus1 target 0 lun 1 (da1,pass5)

> Are these volumes perhaps >2TB ? If so, it won't work...  we stumbled on
> this at work a few weeks ago, and once we resized the volumes so that'd
> all be <2TB, the controller worked fine...
> 
> As far as I know, this is the only workaround - I couldn't see relevant
> patches in Open/NetBSD either that might have fixed this issue :-(
 
The volume da1 is indeed >2TB, but it is not connected to the controller;
it (along with da0) is actually a RAID-10 array connected to a 3Ware/AMCC 
SATA controller.  The Adaptec contoller is used only for the tape drives
(the SDX-900V is AIT4; the SDX-1100 is AIT5), and they are <2TB.

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greg byshenk  -  gbyshenk at byshenk.net  -  Leiden, NL


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