From: Selden E Ball Jr (SEB@LNS62.LNS.CORNELL.EDU)
Date: Wed May 15 2002 - 09:16:08 EDT
Has anyone managed to get a Promise UltraTrak RAID subsystem
to work under Tru64?
We're evaluating a Promise Technologies UltraTrak100 TX8.
It's a SCSI attached array of 8 IDE disks in a RAID5 configuration.
It works fine under RedHat Linux v7.1 on a PC. Solaris 8
on a Sun workstation couldn't label it, but it worked otherwise.
Unfortunately, in both cases it had less throughput than we'd hoped.
So far my attempts have been on a DPWS 600au using an IntraServer
6200 Ultra2 SCSI host adaptor have failed..
Although the RAID array is visible at the SRM prompt, Tru64 v5.1A doesn't
seem to recognize it at all. The command "hwmgr -view devices"
doesn't list it, although it does list an AIT tape drive that's on
the same bus. "hwmgr -scan scsi" doesn't help. See below.
Maybe it needs an appropriate entry in /etc/ddr.dbase?
FWIW, OpenVMS v7.3 detects the unit, but attempts to initialize the "disk"
return the error message "%INIT-F-MEDOFL, medium is offline".
That seems a bit strange, since "SHOW DEVICE/FULL DKD0" claims it's online.
See further below. (error log entries are available for the curious.)
Thanks for whatever help you can provide.
Selden
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Digital Personal WorkStation 600au
Console V7.2-1 Mar 6 2000 14:47:02
>>>sho dev
dka0.0.0.1004.0 DKA0 RZ29B 0016
dka600.6.0.1004.0 DKA600 SEAGATE ST150176LC 0002
dkb300.3.0.1009.0 DKB300 PIONEER CD-ROM DRM-6324X 1.72
dkb301.3.0.1009.0 DKB301 PIONEER CD-ROM DRM-6324X 1.72
dkb302.3.0.1009.0 DKB302 PIONEER CD-ROM DRM-6324X 1.72
dkb303.3.0.1009.0 DKB303 PIONEER CD-ROM DRM-6324X 1.72
dkb304.3.0.1009.0 DKB304 PIONEER CD-ROM DRM-6324X 1.72
dkb305.3.0.1009.0 DKB305 PIONEER CD-ROM DRM-6324X 1.72
dkd0.0.0.1110.0 DKD0 Promise 8 Disk RAID5 1.10
dqb0.0.0.207.0 DQB0 TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-6302B 1017
dva0.0.0.0.1 DVA0
mkb100.1.0.1009.0 MKB100 Quantum DLT4000 CD50
mkd500.5.0.1110.0 MKD500 SONY SDX-500C 0108
ewa0.0.0.3.0 EWA0 00-00-F8-76-63-F1
pka0.7.0.1004.0 PKA0 SCSI Bus ID 7 5.57
pkb0.7.0.1009.0 PKB0 SCSI Bus ID 7
pkc0.7.0.1010.0 PKC0 SCSI Bus ID 7
pkd0.7.0.1110.0 PKD0 SCSI Bus ID 7
pqa0.0.0.107.0 PQA0 PCI EIDE
pqb0.0.0.207.0 PQB0 PCI EIDE
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# hwmgr -view devices
HWID: Device Name Mfg Model Location
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3: /dev/scp_scsi
4: /dev/kevm
29: /dev/disk/dsk2c SEAGATE ST150176LC bus-2-targ-6-lun-0
50: /dev/disk/floppy0c 3.5in floppy fdi0-unit-0
63: /dev/disk/cdrom6c TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-6302B bus-1-targ-0-lun-0
64: /dev/disk/dsk0c DEC RZ29B (C) DEC bus-2-targ-0-lun-0
65: /dev/disk/cdrom7c PIONEER CD-ROM DRM-6324X bus-3-targ-3-lun-0
66: /dev/disk/cdrom8c PIONEER CD-ROM DRM-6324X bus-3-targ-3-lun-1
67: /dev/disk/cdrom9c PIONEER CD-ROM DRM-6324X bus-3-targ-3-lun-2
68: /dev/disk/cdrom10c PIONEER CD-ROM DRM-6324X bus-3-targ-3-lun-3
69: /dev/disk/cdrom11c PIONEER CD-ROM DRM-6324X bus-3-targ-3-lun-4
70: /dev/disk/cdrom12c PIONEER CD-ROM DRM-6324X bus-3-targ-3-lun-5
72: /dev/ntape/tape0 Quantum DLT4000 bus-3-targ-1-lun-0
73: /dev/dmapi/dmapi
79: /dev/ntape/tape2 SONY SDX-500C bus-5-targ-5-lun-0
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LNSB03$ sho dev dkd0:/full
Disk LNSB03$DKD0:, device type Promise 8 Disk RAID5, is online, file-oriented
device, shareable, served to cluster via MSCP Server, error logging is
enabled.
Error count 7 Operations completed 10
Owner process "" Owner UIC [SYSTEM]
Owner process ID 00000000 Dev Prot S:RWPL,O:RWPL,G:R,W
Reference count 0 Default buffer size 512
Total blocks 1626952320 Sectors per track 4
Total cylinders 0 Tracks per cylinder 6
LNSB03$ init dkd0: test
%INIT-F-MEDOFL, medium is offline
LNSB03$
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