Re: [Veritas-bu] IBM LTO-5 (8.0gbps FC) / QLogic 2562-CK (8gbps HBA) timeout question

2012-04-16 Thread nbuser
We use QLogic and we seem to have found workaround. Whenever drives go down we reset the down drive ports from the switch side and then drives come up. Now we don't need to reset the drives physically. On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 4:01 AM, Justin Piszcz wrote: > Hi, > > Could you please elaborate on

Re: [Veritas-bu] IBM LTO-5 (8.0gbps FC) / QLogic 2562-CK (8gbps HBA) timeout question

2012-04-16 Thread Justin Piszcz
Hi, Could you please elaborate on this? Additionally, what are you (and others) using when it comes to the fiber side on the media server? QLogic? Emulex? Have you found any workarounds? Justin. On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 11:42 AM, nbuser wrote: > We also face this issue where we have to reseat

Re: [Veritas-bu] IBM LTO-5 (8.0gbps FC) / QLogic 2562-CK (8gbps HBA) timeout question

2012-04-10 Thread nbuser
We also face this issue where we have to reseat the drive's fibre cable and power recycle the drive. In our environment we have HP LTO-5 in Quantum i6000 series tape library. Problem is sometimes drives go down and we have to do the above mentioned steps to bring them UP. We also have encryption e

Re: [Veritas-bu] IBM LTO-5 (8.0gbps FC) / QLogic 2562-CK (8gbps HBA) timeout question

2012-04-10 Thread Justin Piszcz
day, April 10, 2012 8:19 AM To: Justin Piszcz; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] IBM LTO-5 (8.0gbps FC) / QLogic 2562-CK (8gbps HBA) timeout question Justin What os are you using. Which tape library? Which firmware level are you using in the lto-5. From: ver

Re: [Veritas-bu] IBM LTO-5 (8.0gbps FC) / QLogic 2562-CK (8gbps HBA) timeout question

2012-04-10 Thread Len Boyle
@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] IBM LTO-5 (8.0gbps FC) / QLogic 2562-CK (8gbps HBA) timeout question Hi, Was curious if anyone had been running into timeouts with IBM LTO-5 drives in heavily utilized environments with QLOGIC 2562-CK (8GBPS) HBAs? Never saw this in smaller environments with MPX

[Veritas-bu] IBM LTO-5 (8.0gbps FC) / QLogic 2562-CK (8gbps HBA) timeout question

2012-04-10 Thread Justin Piszcz
Hi, Was curious if anyone had been running into timeouts with IBM LTO-5 drives in heavily utilized environments with QLOGIC 2562-CK (8GBPS) HBAs? Never saw this in smaller environments with MPX <= 3 but now with MPX >= 6 some drives seem to be timing out and going into a "hung" state. Was cur