Can't find units with an Adaptec 2200S

[peterlu]

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

[To-M]

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?

[peterlu]

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

[To-M]

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

[peterlu]

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):
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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").
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At the same time, some errors were generated. Here's RaidErrA.log
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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
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***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

[To-M]

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?