From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 26 17:02:37 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1597216A403 for ; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 17:02:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from joao.barros@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.180]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92C6A43E7E for ; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 17:02:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from joao.barros@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id f28so1413639pyf for ; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 10:02:35 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=fV16+L4dR5vDhXkQ+Hp/ahsWen0kuz3uzSz1vtMXbGr2wDi7E/qUnlwzAkaiVkJobAlXsrn3/0Fc+vlCWonDGdc3X2ozHGilNjfLAuhmlpIPitJ+88p/OXpQf85gtVKgsFkoRwP+2ASgmiEUYA0P0fH7NUYlwr9ohucJg4wgWAU= Received: by 10.35.111.14 with SMTP id o14mr6144711pym; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 10:02:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.35.117.14 with HTTP; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 10:02:35 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <70e8236f0606261002k21af4765o330e9c8bfdf8c0eb@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 18:02:35 +0100 From: "Joao Barros" To: "Mike Galvez" In-Reply-To: <20060626154845.GE264@d-137-145-35.bootp.virginia.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <449FF5B3.40004@mac.com> <200606261524.k5QFOseV010228@clunix.cl.msu.edu> <20060626154845.GE264@d-137-145-35.bootp.virginia.edu> Cc: Jerry McAllister , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Opinions Wanted: Dell PowerEdge Servers ... ? 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: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 17:02:37 -0000 On 6/26/06, Mike Galvez wrote: > > My problem was with my backup server being FreeBSD and running AMANDA. The Powervault > autoloader was generating SCSI errors. After I setup AMANDA on Linux and got the same > errors, they were willing to replace the Powervault autoloader. > > With the new autoloader in place, I replaced the Linux OS with the same instance of FreeBSD > I was using before. No more SCSI errors. > > All of this took more time than it should have. I can't start to tell you the time I and another collegue wasted with Dell Support (we're talking Gold Queue here) on a Powervault PV660T. Logs here, logs there, exercise this, reflash that... I think the damn thing must have been replaced part by part about 2 times, excluding the chassi! And having to reboot a bunch of (Windows) clusters because of the PV was the icing on the cake! This coating was perfomed many times.... At a certain point in time we upgraded the PV from 4 to 6 loaders. It took Dell 3 wrong scsi cables to finally send the right one. -- Joao Barros