Can't find units with an Adaptec 2200S

Please pardon my idiocy, but I'm a complete newcomer to iSCSI. I have a Dell Workstation that I'm trying to set up as an iSCSI target. I have a bunch of hard drives that I've set up in RAIDS on an Adaptec 2200S, using the BIOS utility available at bootup. These are completely fine (I used them before on Windows), and even show up with the "container list" command in the AACLI that I access via RAID tools from the DSS-LITE console. The proper names, sizes, and SCSI IDs are there. However, in the web setup, under configuration->volume manager, it says "no units found". Under setup->H/W RAID, it just gives the info about "Adaptec administration". I rescan, rebooted several times, and even ran the "container clear" from CLI---but nothing I do gets me to be able to see the RAIDS in the web interface. The two RAIDs are a 200 GB RAID 5, involving 4 drives, and a 550 GB RAID0, involving two drives.

I'm probably doing something really stupid, so any advice on how to fix the problem would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Peter

From the GUI in Status > Hardware does the DSS LITE recognise the 2200S for the driver being loaded. Also check to see if the 2200S firmware is the latest, looks like the latest is
v8205. If you go into the SW RAID tool from the GUI do you see any of the drives availble.

Any errors on the bottom left side of the gui?

Under "Status->Hardware" it lists "Adaptec 2200S (Vulcan)" under "RAID Controllers" in the upper part of the list.

Under "Drivers Info" it lists a whole bunch of entries: SCSI target core; iSCSI/TCP data-path; iSCSI library functions; iSCSI Transport Interface; Dell PERC2, 2/Si, 3/Si, 3/Di, Adaptec Advanced Raid Products, HP NetRAID-4M, IBM ServeRAID & ICP SCSI driver.

At the lower left of the GUI, the status is a green check-mark, which I presume means everything is okay.

Under SW RAID, there are no units found.

The firmware version on the card is Build 8205.

So is there some setting that I should have checked in the Adaptec RAID Configuration Utility that I access from the BIOS?

Thanks for your help.

Peter

Any chance you can download the Demo-CD of DSS from link below. I want to see if it will work with this or not. Also are you able to use the Adaptec Storage Manager from a another system to access it. We don't have ingrate GUI access for Adaptec only for 3Ware, Areca, HighPoint and Promise.

From the BIOS of the Adaptec once creating the RAID sets you should see them in the Volume Manager - though there might be something in the BIOS preventing us from seeing the RAIDs just not sure what it could be as it should be simple. Try testing with the with just the drives as single drives just to see if we are seeing them independently from the GUI SW RAID tool.

If possible go to Status > Hardware > Logs > then click on the Download button and download the logs. Look at the dmesg log to see any errors from the Adaptec controller or drives.

Test with the DSS Demo-CD

http://www.open-e.com/account/demo/#open-e-dss

Thanks for all of your help.

I took out my CD drive when I installed all of the hard drives, so if a CD could be avoided at the moment, that would be good (though I can move hardware around if need be).

I've installed the Adaptec Storage Manager (ASM), though I've only used it locally (internal card on a Windows system in the past). I'm not sure how to connect; I put in the IP address of the DSS-Lite box, but ASM couldn't connect directly.

The logs show that I can access both RAIDs, and have cleared the logical disk volumes from the CLI:

Here's RaidEvtA.log (cutting out a bunch of redundant lines):
------------------------------------------------
July 26, 2008 3:24:34 AM CEST INF 212:A00C-S--L-- dss Task Scheduler: Task 1 scheduled successfully..
July 26, 2008 3:56:05 AM EDT INF dss File system changed: controller 1, logical device 2
July 26, 2008 3:56:05 AM EDT INF dss Container changed: controller 1, logical device 2
July 26, 2008 3:56:05 AM EDT INF dss Running: Clear logical disk. 0%. 0 bad sectors. Controller 1, logical device 2
July 26, 2008 3:56:05 AM EDT INF dss File system changed: controller 1, logical device 1
July 26, 2008 3:56:07 AM EDT INF 342:A01C-S--L02 dss Clearing: controller 1, logical device 2 ("550RAID0").
July 26, 2008 3:56:13 AM EDT INF dss Container changed: controller 1, logical device 1
July 26, 2008 3:56:13 AM EDT INF dss Running: Clear logical disk. 0%. 0 bad sectors. Controller 1, logical device 1
July 26, 2008 3:56:15 AM EDT INF 342:A01C-S--L01 dss Clearing: controller 1, logical device 1 ("PeterLu1").
July 26, 2008 3:57:07 AM EDT INF dss Running: Clear logical disk. 5%. 0 bad sectors. Controller 1, logical device 1
...
July 26, 2008 4:18:25 AM EDT INF dss Complete: Clear logical disk. 100%. 0 bad sectors. Controller 1, logical device 1
July 26, 2008 4:18:25 AM EDT INF dss Complete: Clear logical disk. 100%. 0 bad sectors. Controller 1, logical device 1
July 26, 2008 4:18:25 AM EDT INF dss Container changed: controller 1, logical device 1
July 26, 2008 4:18:25 AM EDT INF dss Container changed: controller 1, logical device 1
July 26, 2008 4:18:27 AM EDT INF 345:A01C-S--L01 dss Logical device is normal: controller 1, logical device 1 ("PeterLu1").
July 26, 2008 4:18:27 AM EDT INF 343:A01C-S--L01 dss Clear complete: controller 1, logical device 1 ("PeterLu1").
...
July 26, 2008 5:11:27 AM EDT INF 345:A01C-S--L02 dss Logical device is normal: controller 1, logical device 2 ("550RAID0").
July 26, 2008 5:11:27 AM EDT INF 343:A01C-S--L02 dss Clear complete: controller 1, logical device 2 ("550RAID0").
------------------------------------------------

At the same time, some errors were generated. Here's RaidErrA.log
------------------------------------------------
26 Jul 2008 03:24:26,841 [main] WARN MasterDataProc.<init>:130 - Discovered controllers: ARC
26 Jul 2008 03:24:34,604 [main] ERROR JCRMUtil.AgentErrorLog:90 - Security Manager io exception, creating a new list.
26 Jul 2008 03:30:35,021 [AutoDiscoveryEngine] WARN SLPManager.handleMessage:722 - Could not send ServiceReply
org.ch.ethz.iks.slp.ServiceLocationException: Network is unreachable target address: 192.168.0.220 portInfo: 34580
at org.ch.ethz.iks.slp.impl.SLPManager.sendMessage(SL PManager.java:947)
at org.ch.ethz.iks.slp.impl.SLPManager.handleMessage( SLPManager.java:720)
at org.ch.ethz.iks.slp.impl.SLPManager.multicastConve rgenceRequest(SLPManager.java:1164)
at org.ch.ethz.iks.slp.impl.SLPManager.request(SLPMan ager.java:1051)
at org.ch.ethz.iks.slp.impl.LocatorImpl.findServices( LocatorImpl.java:128)
at com.ibm.sysmgt.raidmgr.agent.AutoDiscoveryEngine.g etLocalDiscoveryAgents(AutoDiscoveryEngine.java:34 7)
at com.ibm.sysmgt.raidmgr.agent.AutoDiscoveryEngine.h eartbeat(AutoDiscoveryEngine.java:268)
at com.ibm.sysmgt.raidmgr.agent.AutoDiscoveryEngine.r un(AutoDiscoveryEngine.java:235)
26 Jul 2008 03:45:34,537 [main] WARN MasterDataProc.<init>:130 - Discovered controllers: ARC
26 Jul 2008 11:48:41,405 [main] WARN MasterDataProc.<init>:130 - Discovered controllers: ARC
26 Jul 2008 11:58:53,264 [main] WARN MasterDataProc.<init>:130 - Discovered controllers: ARC
26 Jul 2008 12:41:45,313 [main] WARN MasterDataProc.<init>:130 - Discovered controllers: ARC
------------------------------------------------

***I've changed the IP address of the box to 192.168.1.120, but the SLPManager is looking at the default 192.168.0.220, according to the error message log. Can I change this somewhere?***

Thanks!

Peter

When installing the Adaptec Storage Manager on another system try entering either Internal then right click to Add managed system and enter the port "34,571", 3. Enter the ip address of the DSS LITE in Host name/IP address then Enter "raid" in "User name" and "Password" entry to see if you can access it.

The reason for the CD was to verify any issues with DSS LITE vs. the CD version.

What about the dmesg logs anything in there?

Thanks for the ASM instructions. It works just fine, and I can see both of the RAIDs I created from the other machine; the properties are all as they should be.

I'm not sure what specifically to look for in the dmesg log, so I'll post it in the next message (which I presume you can delete later if you want to shorten this thread).

Thanks,

Peter

dmesg, part 1 of 2:

Linux version 2.6.17.13-vs2.0.2.1-smp-6oe2 (root@develsystem2) (gcc version 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)) #18 SMP Wed Dec 5 18:12:14 CET 2007
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 00000000000a0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 00000000bff75000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 00000000bff75000 - 00000000bff77000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 00000000bff77000 - 00000000bff98000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 00000000bff98000 - 00000000c0000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec90000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee10000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ffb00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
2175MB HIGHMEM available.
896MB LOWMEM available.
found SMP MP-table at 000fe710
On node 0 totalpages: 786293
DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:0
Normal zone: 225280 pages, LIFO batch:31
HighMem zone: 556917 pages, LIFO batch:31
DMI 2.3 present.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 DELL ) @ 0x000febc0
ACPI: RSDT (v001 DELL WS 650 0x00000008 ASL 0x00000061) @ 0x000fd4d9
ACPI: FADT (v001 DELL WS 650 0x00000008 ASL 0x00000061) @ 0x000fd511
ACPI: SSDT (v001 DELL st_ex 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000d) @ 0xfffefbac
ACPI: MADT (v001 DELL WS 650 0x00000008 ASL 0x00000061) @ 0x000fd585
ACPI: BOOT (v001 DELL WS 650 0x00000008 ASL 0x00000061) @ 0x000fd609
ACPI: ASF! (v016 DELL WS 650 0x00000008 ASL 0x00000061) @ 0x000fd631
ACPI: DSDT (v001 DELL dt_ex 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000d) @ 0x00000000
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x808
ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
Processor #0 15:2 APIC version 20
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x02] lapic_id[0x06] enabled)
Processor #6 15:2 APIC version 20
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x03] lapic_id[0x01] disabled)
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x04] lapic_id[0x07] disabled)
ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x08] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])
IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 8, version 32, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23
ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x09] address[0xfec80000] gsi_base[24])
IOAPIC[1]: apic_id 9, version 32, address 0xfec80000, GSI 24-47
ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x0a] address[0xfec80800] gsi_base[48])
IOAPIC[2]: apic_id 10, version 32, address 0xfec80800, GSI 48-71
ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl)
ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 high level)
ACPI: IRQ0 used by override.
ACPI: IRQ2 used by override.
ACPI: IRQ9 used by override.
Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 3 I/O APICs
Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
Allocating PCI resources starting at c4000000 (gap: c0000000:3ec00000)
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: quiet no_scroll vga=788 splash=silent CONSOLE=/dev/tty1 initrd=/devdrtm/boot/initrd.gz max_loop=255 ramdisk_size=131072 root=/dev/ram0 rw maxcpus=32 vmalloc=128M ver=devdrtm changes=/devdrtm/changes.img BOOT_IMAGE=/devdrtm/boot/vmlinuz
mapped APIC to ffffd000 (fee00000)
mapped IOAPIC to ffffc000 (fec00000)
mapped IOAPIC to ffffb000 (fec80000)
mapped IOAPIC to ffffa000 (fec80800)
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 16384 bytes)
Detected 2658.169 MHz processor.
Using pmtmr for high-res timesource
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Memory: 3108200k/3145172k available (3473k kernel code, 35892k reserved, 1021k data, 240k init, 2227668k highmem)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 5321.45 BogoMIPS (lpj=10642902)
Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
Capability LSM initialized
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00004400 00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00004400 00000000 00000000
CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
CPU: After all inits, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000080 00004400 00000000 00000000
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU0: Intel P4/Xeon Extended MCE MSRs (12) available
CPU0: Thermal monitoring enabled
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
Freeing SMP alternatives: 24k freed
CPU0: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.66GHz stepping 07
Booting processor 1/6 eip 2000
Initializing CPU#1
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 5316.21 BogoMIPS (lpj=10632422)
CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
CPU: Physical Processor ID: 3
CPU: After all inits, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000080 00000000 00000000 00000000
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#1.
CPU1: Intel P4/Xeon Extended MCE MSRs (12) available
CPU1: Thermal monitoring enabled
CPU1: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.66GHz stepping 07
Total of 2 processors activated (10637.66 BogoMIPS).
ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
..TIMER: vector=0x31 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1
checking TSC synchronization across 2 CPUs: passed.
Brought up 2 CPUs
migration_cost=4000
checking if image is initramfs... it is
Freeing initrd memory: 5212k freed
NET: Registered protocol family 16
ACPI: bus type pci registered
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfbdda, last bus=5
Setting up standard PCI resources
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20060127
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
ACPI: Assume root bridge [\_SB_.PCI0] bus is 0
PCI quirk: region 0800-087f claimed by ICH4 ACPI/GPIO/TCO
PCI quirk: region 0880-08bf claimed by ICH4 GPIO
PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 0000:00:1f.1
Boot video device is 0000:01:00.0
PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PCI1._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PCI1.PCI2._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PCI1.PCI3._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PCI4._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 15) *14
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 *7 9 10 11 12 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 *10 11 12 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 12 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *9 10 11 12 15)
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
pnp: PnP ACPI init
pnp: PnP ACPI: found 7 devices
PnPBIOS: Disabled by ACPI PNP
SCSI subsystem initialized
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq". If it helps, post a report
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 4 of device 0000:00:1d.0
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 4 of device 0000:00:1d.1
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 4 of device 0000:00:1d.2
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 4 of device 0000:00:1f.1
pnp: 00:06: ioport range 0x800-0x85f could not be reserved
pnp: 00:06: ioport range 0xc00-0xc7f has been reserved
pnp: 00:06: ioport range 0x860-0x8ff could not be reserved
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:01.0
IO window: disabled.
MEM window: fc000000-fdffffff
PREFETCH window: e8000000-efffffff
PCI: Bridge: 0000:02:1d.0
IO window: f000-ffff
MEM window: fe300000-fe4fffff
PREFETCH window: f0000000-f3ffffff
PCI: Bridge: 0000:02:1f.0
IO window: disabled.
MEM window: disabled.
PREFETCH window: disabled.
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:02.0
IO window: f000-ffff
MEM window: fe100000-fe4fffff
PREFETCH window: f0000000-f3ffffff
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1e.0
IO window: disabled.
MEM window: disabled.
PREFETCH window: disabled.
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1e.0 to 64
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 524288 (order: 10, 4194304 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 524288 bind 65536)
TCP reno registered

dmesg, part 2 of 2:

Simple Boot Flag value 0x87 read from CMOS RAM was invalid
Simple Boot Flag at 0x7a set to 0x1
* This chipset may have PM-Timer Bug. Due to workarounds for a bug,
* this time source is slow. If you are sure your timer does not have
* this bug, please use "pmtmr_good" to disable the workaround
IA-32 Microcode Update Driver: v1.14 <tigran@veritas.com>
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16ac)
apm: disabled - APM is not SMP safe.
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
audit(1217076038.104:1): initialized
highmem bounce pool size: 64 pages
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@monad.swb.de).
SGI XFS with ACLs, security attributes, realtime, large block numbers, no debug enabled
SGI XFS Quota Management subsystem
Initializing Cryptographic API
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered (default)
vesafb: framebuffer at 0xe8000000, mapped to 0xf8880000, using 1875k, total 131072k
vesafb: mode is 800x600x16, linelength=1600, pages=2
vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:e4e0
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
vesafb: Truecolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 100x37
fbsplash: console 0 using theme 'default'
fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
vga16fb: initializing
vga16fb: mapped to 0xc00a0000
fb1: VGA16 VGA frame buffer device
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
floppy0: no floppy controllers found
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 131072K size 1024 blocksize
loop: loaded (max 255 devices)
nbd: registered device at major 43
ipddp.c:v0.01 8/28/97 Bradford W. Johnson <johns393@maroon.tc.umn.edu>
ipddp0: Appletalk-IP Encap. mode by Bradford W. Johnson <johns393@maroon.tc.umn.edu>
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ICH4: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.1
PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:1f.1 (0000 -> 0003)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.1[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
ICH4: chipset revision 1
ICH4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ICH4: neither IDE port enabled (BIOS)
Probing IDE interface ide0...
Probing IDE interface ide1...
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.7[D] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.7 to 64
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: EHCI Host Controller
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: debug port 1
PCI: cache line size of 128 is not supported by device 0000:00:1d.7
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: irq 17, io mem 0xfe500000
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 6 ports detected
ohci_hcd: 2005 April 22 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI)
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v3.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.0 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: irq 18, io base 0x00001000
usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.1[B] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.1 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: irq 19, io base 0x00001020
usb usb3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.2[C] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.2 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: irq 16, io base 0x00001040
usb usb4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
usb 1-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 1-2:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-2:1.0: 4 ports detected
usb 1-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
usb 1-4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
usb 1-2.4: new low speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4
usb 1-2.4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb-storage: device found at 3
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
input: Logitech USB Receiver as /class/input/input0
input: USB HID v1.10 Keyboard [Logitech USB Receiver] on usb-0000:00:1d.7-2.4
input: Logitech USB Receiver as /class/input/input1
input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Logitech USB Receiver] on usb-0000:00:1d.7-2.4
usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
/home/src/MF/kernel.org/trunk/drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
PNP: No PS/2 controller found. Probing ports directly.
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
md: linear personality registered for level -1
md: raid0 personality registered for level 0
md: raid1 personality registered for level 1
md: raid5 personality registered for level 5
md: raid4 personality registered for level 4
raid5: automatically using best checksumming function: pIII_sse
pIII_sse : 3455.000 MB/sec
raid5: using function: pIII_sse (3455.000 MB/sec)
raid6: int32x1 713 MB/s
raid6: int32x2 691 MB/s
raid6: int32x4 550 MB/s
raid6: int32x8 635 MB/s
raid6: mmxx1 2135 MB/s
raid6: mmxx2 2728 MB/s
raid6: sse1x1 1175 MB/s
raid6: sse1x2 2416 MB/s
raid6: sse2x1 1882 MB/s
raid6: sse2x2 3004 MB/s
raid6: using algorithm sse2x2 (3004 MB/s)
md: raid6 personality registered for level 6
md: multipath personality registered for level -4
md: faulty personality registered for level -5
md: md driver 0.90.3 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: bitmap version 4.39
device-mapper: 4.6.0-ioctl (2006-02-17) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com
device-mapper: dm-multipath version 1.0.4 loaded
device-mapper: dm-round-robin version 1.0.0 loaded
ip_conntrack version 2.4 (8192 buckets, 65536 max) - 200 bytes per conntrack
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
TCP bic registered
Initializing IPsec netlink socket
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
NET: Registered protocol family 15
NET: Registered protocol family 5
Starting balanced_irq
Using IPI Shortcut mode
Freeing unused kernel memory: 240k freed
squashfs: version 3.2-r2 (2007/01/15) Phillip Lougher
aufs 20070903
attempt to access beyond end of device
loop0: rw=0, want=66, limit=8
isofs_fill_super: bread failed, dev=loop0, iso_blknum=16, block=32
attempt to access beyond end of device
loop0: rw=0, want=68, limit=8
attempt to access beyond end of device
loop0: rw=0, want=1252, limit=8
attempt to access beyond end of device
loop0: rw=0, want=1028, limit=8
UDF-fs: No partition found (1)
XFS: bad magic number
XFS: SB validate failed
Vendor: USB Model: DISK 2.0 Rev: 0828
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00
SCSI device sda: 1966080 512-byte hdwr sectors (1007 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 43 00 00 00
SCSI device sda: 1966080 512-byte hdwr sectors (1007 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 43 00 00 00
sda: sda1
sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sda
usb-storage: device scan complete
UDF-fs: No VRS found
XFS: bad magic number
XFS: SB validate failed
UDF-fs: No VRS found
XFS: bad magic number
XFS: SB validate failed
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on dm-0, internal journal
EXT3-fs: recovery complete.
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
attempt to access beyond end of device
dm-1: rw=0, want=66, limit=8
isofs_fill_super: bread failed, dev=dm-1, iso_blknum=16, block=32
attempt to access beyond end of device
dm-1: rw=0, want=68, limit=8
attempt to access beyond end of device
dm-1: rw=0, want=1252, limit=8
attempt to access beyond end of device
dm-1: rw=0, want=1028, limit=8
UDF-fs: No partition found (1)
XFS: bad magic number
XFS: SB validate failed
UDF-fs: No VRS found
XFS: bad magic number
XFS: SB validate failed
UDF-fs: No VRS found
XFS: bad magic number
XFS: SB validate failed
UDF-fs: No VRS found
XFS: bad magic number
XFS: SB validate failed
UDF-fs: No VRS found
XFS: bad magic number
XFS: SB validate failed
attempt to access beyond end of device
dm-6: rw=0, want=386, limit=384
isofs_fill_super: bread failed, dev=dm-6, iso_blknum=96, block=192
UDF-fs: No VRS found
XFS: bad magic number
XFS: SB validate failed

From the dmesg logs it shows nothing about the Adaptec yet in the Status > Hardware gui your seeing it....

So from the dmesg log let's approach this at the hardware layer, try turning of any power management features of the motherboard or move to another slot to test. Any settings in the Adaptec that you can test.. turning off the BIOS or other options that might affect the issue. I know that you have removed the CD-ROM any chance you can test w/ the Demo-CD.

Coming up blank as I don't have this card with me. You can send me the whole logs and maybe something might show up.

It's definitely something with the card. I unplugged one of the SCSI cables from the Adaptec 2200S, and plugged it in to the onboard SCSI controller on the motherboard, and it identified and recognized all of the drives properly in Open-E. I tried turning off the BIOS, and the BBS (BIOS Boot specification); without both of these enabled, the machine won't properly boot at all.

It's definitely the Adaptec. I had a spare (older) Dell PERC3 dual-channel (an old LSI MegaRAID card). I swapped that in place of the Adaptec 2200S, and things appears to be working properly now... very, very strange.

I've not gotten everything working just fine with the MegaRAID card (AMI QLA12160 = Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller 3/DC). I've been doing a bit of performance testing, and with HD Tune (I realize this doesn't necessarily give good absolute numbers, but at least it should give a good measure for drives in the same system).

My main internal RAID on the workstation is a RAID5 of four 143 GB Seagate Savvio 10K.2 drives, which gives an average read transfer rate of 203 MB/s.

For comparison, I also benchmarked my little 120 GB Lacie portable hard drive (5400 rpm, 2.5" drive). Over firewire, it was about 29 MB/s; over USB, about 28 MB/s.

I also have a Thecus N5200 Pro, which is an iSCSI box with five SATA Seagate Barracuda ES.2 drives in a RAID five, which had an average transfer rate of about 36.5 MB/s.

Finally, the two RAIDs setup within the Open-E DSS Lite box, which is a Dell Precision Workstation 690, 3 GB of RAM, with the aforementioned MegaRAID two-channel RAID card with 64 MB of RAM. The first setup is a RAID0 of two 10,000 RPM 300 GB Maxtor Atlas 10K.V U320 SCSI drives. This gave a transfer rate of 29.5 MB/s. The second setup has four 73 GB Seagate Cheetah 15K.3 drives in a RAID 5. It's transfer rate was about 26.2 MB/s. In all cases, reading and writing cache were both enabled.

What I don't understand is why the RAID setups in the Open-E setup are so slow. Internally, they are good for hundreds of megabytes per second. All of the machines have GbE, and 30-40 MB/s is nowhere near the maximum bandwidth, even for a single adapter.

But the performance I"m getting from dedicated SCSI hardware is poorer than that from a plug-in USB drive. What am I doing wrong? What can I do to fix this?

Thanks again,

Peter

Not sure why try checking the SCSI cards speed settings I have seen some act differently with to high of a speed setting. Also update all firmware - but I believe you have this setup. I know you have set this with the cache enable, please make sure of this with the manufacture.

Look at the test.log in the hdparm -t /dev/sdb section to check the Timing buffered disk reads.

Check memory info in section of "cat /proc/meminfo" to see if
Check NIC's if there are any rx or tx errors from "ifconfig -a"

So the cache is enabled, as it should be. As for memory, the system has 3 GB of RAM, and from the console tools, it looks like there's about 86% free.

How do I access ifconfig or hdparm? That is, how do I get to the command line interface? Thanks!

My mistake, I left out an important detail - to view the information that might be of help, download the logs from the gui at Status > Hardware > Logs then download the logs and look in the test.log. We do not provide shell or telnet access to the OS.

Can you remove the drives that make up the RAID 5 array from the system (physically).
Maybe DSS Lite is adding the raw drives together and coming up with a total of over 1T.

Actually the total amount of space is well under 1 TB. There are 2 x 300 GB in a RAID 0, plus 4 X 73 GB in a RAID 5, for a total of 600 + 200 = 800 GB. After switching to a completely different card, things are just fine.

As for performance, I'm not sure HDTune is such a good benchmark for this stuff (its main advantage, though, is that it's free and relatively fast, and reproducible). In addition to those numbers, I spent a bit more time copying my own data files.

I had a set of digital video files, each about 2 GB, for a total of about 14 GB. Copying to the RAID 0 gave an average of about 53 MB/sec; to the RAID 5, about 45 MB/sec. This is a lot more reasonable. Over the long run, with a big mix of files (160 GB total) of all sizes, I get about 19 MB/sec with the RAID 5, which is reasonable since there are a bunch of smaller files.

This seems a bit better overall, and suggests that there isn't anything seriously wrong with the setup. I'm a bit interested in others' real-world experiences, though. Is there much more performance to be had? Right now, I'm using the integrated ethernet cards on the workstation motherboards on a dedicated switch---should I expect a significant increase by going to dedicated, plug-in server ethernet cards? Will jumbo frames make a big difference? Doesn't look like I'm very close to saturating the Gig-E connection, but should I be considering dual-port cards? Thanks!