From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 13 21:37:17 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2A7B106567A for ; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:37:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amvandemore@gmail.com) Received: from mail-gx0-f182.google.com (mail-gx0-f182.google.com [209.85.161.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D3F48FC12 for ; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:37:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk24 with SMTP id 24so4357805gxk.13 for ; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 14:37:16 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=bxMEsoPSPQs1Eo+Zfsi3QVWm6him7w0w611gsM199EE=; b=lWAHvRoeT/4RnBe7PUSZZ77Ddi6QH140LseXz3S+1avHe50N+xVGm9PNkBSm+Sbwdi +gNzWSg9LhhGCn9s2/1ZNe6OHBmXnTppYXDV6ozSq1+MMfhWkozTh08yi3DKqY6VDPti U/2wVNLpAyQRKO4n9qK1zRbjCeWDF1BgfL+to= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=DDxgVUT7KIPQRx0hcLrYfqa5BdaMQFi3gHeX9SW2xXznGYVWk0HbUaDwmQjNmhPo74 pr8Y+HfHhh9Xq0UTl8+KcVgyP7GleaDCq7XIO1e61QA76rNGievUHUV8UhowbOL4FrGk ZmPgUMumRbARI+BegmrTS8WiSshlNM644Eyno= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.229.38.147 with SMTP id b19mr1143682qce.248.1279057036478; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 14:37:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.229.86.12 with HTTP; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 14:37:16 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <283E1E509AB1496E93FA10385C1B745B@GRANTPC> References: <283E1E509AB1496E93FA10385C1B745B@GRANTPC> Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:37:16 -0500 Message-ID: From: Adam Vande More To: Grant Peel Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell SAS5/IR X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:37:17 -0000 On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Grant Peel wrote: > Hi all, > > I was attempiting to restage a server last night to no avail. It is a Dell > 860 with a LSI SAS (Dell SAS5/SI) controller. > > This was happening when I was dumping the filesystems from a USB memory > stick (da1s1) to the hard drive (Seagate 76 GIG SAS - da0s1). > > Can anyone tell me if they have seen this before? or if it is a Hard disk > problem, or a problem with the SAS controller, or is it a FreeBSD problem? > > I ahve donwloaded the latest SAS firmware and installed it, ran the Dell 32 > Bit diags, ran the drive diagnostics, etc etc and everything passes with no > errors. > > I simply cant install dumps, or install a fresh copy of freebsd. > > I have snapshots of what the console iis showing, but in a nutshell: > > (da0:mpt:0:0:0:0): Synchonize cahce failed, status =0x4a, scsi status = 0x0 > (da0:mpt:0:0:0:0): removing device entry > Device /da0s1e went missing before all of the data could be written to it, > expect data loss > > I have snapshots if anyone wants me to send them off list. > > Any possible resalutions ? > The way I read your problem is that you are dumping a slice with partitions to another slice correct? I don't think that works, dump(1) works on the filesystem level, so a partition by partition dump and restore is needed. -- Adam Vande More