Re: PARI's E6500 Status.

On Sunday 04 September 2005 09:25, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-09-03 at 22:42 -0400, Lamar Owen wrote:
> > Up on Tangerine. Following is some info:
> > [root@spacely root]# cat /proc/cpuinfo
> > cpu             : TI UltraSparc II  (BlackBird)
> > fpu             : UltraSparc II integrated FPU
> > promlib         : Version 3 Revision 2
> > prom            : 3.2.30
> > type            : sun4u
> > ncpus probed    : 14
> > ncpus active    : 14

> Is the scsi controller in use on that beast sym53c8xx?

Qlogic PTI diff scsi to a D1000.  Have seven 18GB drives in the D1000.
From dmesg:
SCSI subsystem initialized
qpti0: IRQ 7,c3 SCSI ID 7 (Firmware v1.31.32)(Firmware 1.28 99/11/08) [Ultra 
Wide, using differential interface]
qpti1: IRQ 7,1c3 SCSI ID 7 (Firmware v1.31.32)(Firmware 1.28 99/11/08) [Ultra 
Wide, using differential interface]
QPTI: Total of 2 PTI Qlogic/ISP hosts found, 2 actually in use.
scsi0 : PTI Qlogic,ISP SBUS SCSI irq 7,c3 regs at 1c700010000
  Vendor: SEAGATE   Model: ST318436LC        Rev: 0004
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 03
SCSI device sda: 35885168 512-byte hdwr sectors (18373 MB)
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write through
 sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4
Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
  Vendor: SEAGATE   Model: ST318436LC        Rev: 0004
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 03
SCSI device sdb: 35885168 512-byte hdwr sectors (18373 MB)
SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write through
 sdb: unknown partition table
Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0
  Vendor: SEAGATE   Model: ST318436LC        Rev: 0004
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 03
SCSI device sdc: 35885168 512-byte hdwr sectors (18373 MB)
SCSI device sdc: drive cache: write through
 sdc: unknown partition table
Attached scsi disk sdc at scsi0, channel 0, id 2, lun 0
  Vendor: SEAGATE   Model: ST318436LC        Rev: 0004
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 03
SCSI device sdd: 35885168 512-byte hdwr sectors (18373 MB)
SCSI device sdd: drive cache: write through
 sdd: unknown partition table
Attached scsi disk sdd at scsi0, channel 0, id 3, lun 0
  Vendor: SEAGATE   Model: ST318436LC        Rev: 0004
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 03
SCSI device sde: 35885168 512-byte hdwr sectors (18373 MB)
SCSI device sde: drive cache: write through
 sde: unknown partition table
Attached scsi disk sde at scsi0, channel 0, id 4, lun 0
  Vendor: SEAGATE   Model: ST318436LC        Rev: 0004
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 03
SCSI device sdf: 35885168 512-byte hdwr sectors (18373 MB)
SCSI device sdf: drive cache: write through
 sdf: unknown partition table
Attached scsi disk sdf at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0
  Vendor: SYMBIOS   Model: D1000             Rev: 2
  Type:   Processor                          ANSI SCSI revision: 02
scsi1 : PTI Qlogic,ISP SBUS SCSI irq 7,1c3 regs at 1cf00010000
  Vendor: SEAGATE   Model: ST318436LC        Rev: 0004
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 03
SCSI device sdg: 35885168 512-byte hdwr sectors (18373 MB)
SCSI device sdg: drive cache: write through
 sdg: unknown partition table
Attached scsi disk sdg at scsi1, channel 0, id 8, lun 0
  Vendor: SEAGATE   Model: ST318436LC        Rev: 0004
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 03
SCSI device sdh: 35885168 512-byte hdwr sectors (18373 MB)
SCSI device sdh: drive cache: write through
 sdh: unknown partition table
Attached scsi disk sdh at scsi1, channel 0, id 9, lun 0
  Vendor: SYMBIOS   Model: D1000             Rev: 2
  Type:   Processor                          ANSI SCSI revision: 02

One of the annoyances I'm seeing right now is that something in the kernel is 
preventing fdisk from initializing partition tables; I set up a partition on 
any of sdb-sdh, I get a message:
Command (m for help): w
The partition table has been altered!

Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table.

WARNING: Re-reading the partition table failed with error 5: Input/output 
error.
The kernel still uses the old table.
The new table will be used at the next reboot.
Syncing disks.
[root@spacely root]#

On a reboot the partition isn't seen.  Is this perhaps an fdisk bug?  Parted 
seems to work ok; just have to learn its syntax.
-- 
Lamar Owen
Director of Information Technology
Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute
1 PARI Drive
Rosman, NC  28772
(828)862-5554
www.pari.edu
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