[Firewire-users] Firewire-users Digest, Vol 26, Issue 2

Nga Nguyen bnga.nguyen at gmail.com
Sat Jul 12 19:15:58 PDT 2008


Hi Billy,

I was swapping firewire cable the server2 can access to the external
firewire, but the server1 can't access to the external firewire drive.
Sorry for asking a silly question
Is this possible the firewire cable which is causing a problem or
firewire drive?

Please read an information dmesg output below
dmesg|grep ieee1394
ieee1394: no version for "struct_module" found: kernel tainted.
ieee1394: Node added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023]  GUID[0010b9210061733d]
ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-01:1023]  GUID[d10900e39b078a2e]
ieee1394: sbp2: Driver forced to serialize I/O (serialize_io=1)
ieee1394: sbp2: Try serialize_io=0 for better performance
ieee1394: sbp2: Maximum concurrent logins supported: 2
ieee1394: sbp2: Number of active logins: 0
ieee1394: sbp2: Logged into SBP-2 device
ieee1394: Node 0-00:1023: Max speed [S400] - Max payload [2048]
ieee1394: Node changed: 0-01:1023 -> 0-00:1023
ieee1394: Node suspended: ID:BUS[0-00:1023]  GUID[0010b9210061733d]
ieee1394: The root node is not cycle master capable; selecting a new
root node and resetting...
ieee1394: Node resumed: ID:BUS[0-00:1023]  GUID[0010b9210061733d]
ieee1394: Node changed: 0-00:1023 -> 0-01:1023
ieee1394: sbp2: Maximum concurrent logins supported: 2
ieee1394: sbp2: Number of active logins: 0
ieee1394: sbp2: Logged into SBP-2 device
ieee1394: Node 0-00:1023: Max speed [S400] - Max payload [2048]

Many thanks,
Nga Nguyen

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> Hi Billy,
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> Sorry for a late reply, I was offsite.
> I did unplug server1 from the firewire drive, plug in server2 only and boot
> server2 now passes modprobe sbp2 but not firewire and nothing successfully.
> Please read a information output of lsmod
> lsmod|egrep "ohci1394|sbp2|sd_mod|ieee1394"
> sbp2                   23048  0
> ohci1394               32964  0
> ieee1394               83252  2 sbp2,ohci1394
> sd_mod                 24897  0
> scsi_mod              132685  3 sbp2,libata,sd_mod
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> Thanks and appreciated for your help
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>> Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 12:45:39 +0930
>> From: "Nga Nguyen" <bnga.nguyen at gmail.com>
>> Subject: [Firewire-users] external firewire for RAC
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>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have 2 linux boxes kernel 2.6.18-53.el5.
>> I would like to use external firewire hard drive (Firewire hard drive
>> is Maxtor onetouch II
>> ) for RAC.
>> I added /etc/modprobe.conf file:
>> options sbp2 exclusive_login=0
>> One box can access to external firewire drive, but the second box
>> can't access to it.
>> When server reboot, second box didn't modprobe firewire_core,
>> firewire_sbp2 and sbp2. I manually modprobed them and run command cat
>> /proc/scsi/scsi but there aren't output from the firewire hard drive
>>
>> Could you please help?
>>
>> Please read information from the output below
>>
>> [root at linux1 ~]# lsmod|egrep "ohci1394|sbp2|sd_mod|ieee1394" (after modprobed)
>> firewire_sbp2          16453  0
>> firewire_core          42241  1 firewire_sbp2
>> sbp2                   23048  0
>> ohci1394               32964  0
>> ieee1394               83252  2 sbp2,ohci1394
>> sd_mod                 24897  0
>> scsi_mod              132685  5 sg,firewire_sbp2,sbp2,libata,sd_mod
>>
>> [root at linux1 ~]# dmesg|grep sbp2 (no output)
>>
>> [root at linux1 ~]# dmesg|grep ieee1394
>> ieee1394: no version for "struct_module" found: kernel tainted.
>> ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023]  GUID[d10900e39b078a2e]
>> ieee1394: sbp2: Driver forced to serialize I/O (serialize_io=1)
>> ieee1394: sbp2: Try serialize_io=0 for better performance
>>
>> [root at linux1 ~]# cat /proc/scsi/scsi (no output)
>>
>> [root at linux1 ~]# uname -a
>> Linux linux1 2.6.18-53.el5 #1 SMP Mon Nov 12 02:22:48 EST 2007 i686
>> athlon i386 GNU/Linux
>>
>>
>> Many thanks in advance,
>> Nga Nguyen
>>
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>> Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:55:03 +0200
>> From: "Billy Verreynne (JW)" <VerreyB at telkom.co.za>
>> Subject: Re: [Firewire-users] external firewire for RAC
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>> On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 12:45 +0930, Nga Nguyen wrote:
>>
>>> One box can access to external firewire drive, but the second box
>>> can't access to it.
>>
>> Try first to isolate the problem. Is an issue with the actual 2nd box
>> config? Or is the issue related with the firewire drive?
>>
>> What happens when you unplug server1 from the firewire drive, plug in
>> server2 only and boot? Does server2 now pass modprobe and the rest
>> successfully?
>>
>>
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