Hello.
Newly installed Almalinux8.6 running on an old Dell (PE R210 II). The intended new role of this machine is to work with an external LTO8 deck.
The legacy Dell SAS HBA yields from ‘lspci -nn’:
01:00.0 Serial Attached SCSI controller [0107]: Broadcom / LSI SAS2008 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS-2 [Falcon] [1000:0072] (rev 03)
From elrepo I obtained the driver pkg dd-mpt3sas-39.100.00.00-1.el8_6.elrepo.iso.
I mounted the iso as a loopback device and pulled the rpm and installed using:
’ sudo rpm -i kmod-mpt3sas-39.100.00.00-1.el8_6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm’
Upon reboot the system created tape devices (e.g. /dev/st0) and I was able to mount a formatted LTFS tape and do things like ‘ls’. But upon trying to copy content from tape I get and input/output error. Same error when using ‘cp’ and ‘dd’. I didn’t try others.
Any suggestions? Many thanks for your time.
The output of ‘modinfo mpt3sas’ yields:
filename: /lib/modules/4.18.0-372.9.1.el8.x86_64/extra/mpt3sas/mpt3sas.ko
alias: mpt2sas
version: 39.100.00.00
license: GPL
description: LSI MPT Fusion SAS 3.0 Device Driver
author: Avago Technologies MPT-FusionLinux.pdl@avagotech.com
rhelversion: 8.6
srcversion: AE9937FCEF105BF369AEB64
alias: pci:v00001000d000000E7svsdbcsci*
alias: pci:v00001000d000000E4svsdbcsci*
alias: pci:v00001000d000000E6svsdbcsci*
alias: pci:v00001000d000000E5svsdbcsci*
alias: pci:v00001000d000000B2svsdbcsci*
alias: pci:v00001000d000000E3svsdbcsci*
alias: pci:v00001000d000000E0svsdbcsci*
alias: pci:v00001000d000000E2svsdbcsci*
alias: pci:v00001000d000000E1svsdbcsci*
alias: pci:v00001000d000000D1svsdbcsci*
alias: pci:v00001000d000000ACsvsdbcsci*
alias: pci:v00001000d000000ABsvsdbcsci*
alias: pci:v00001000d000000AAsvsdbcsci*
alias: pci:v00001000d000000AFsvsdbcsci*
alias: pci:v00001000d000000AEsvsdbcsci*
alias: pci:v00001000d000000ADsvsdbcsci*
alias: pci:v00001000d000000C3svsdbcsci*
alias: pci:v00001000d000000C2svsdbcsci*
alias: pci:v00001000d000000C1svsdbcsci*
alias: pci:v00001000d000000C0svsdbcsci*
alias: pci:v00001000d000000C8svsdbcsci*
alias: pci:v00001000d000000C7svsdbcsci*
alias: pci:v00001000d000000C6svsdbcsci*
alias: pci:v00001000d000000C5svsdbcsci*
alias: pci:v00001000d000000C4svsdbcsci*
alias: pci:v00001000d000000C9svsdbcsci*
alias: pci:v00001000d00000095svsdbcsci*
alias: pci:v00001000d00000094svsdbcsci*
alias: pci:v00001000d00000091svsdbcsci*
alias: pci:v00001000d00000090svsdbcsci*
alias: pci:v00001000d00000097svsdbcsci*
alias: pci:v00001000d00000096svsdbcsci*
alias: pci:v00001000d0000007Esvsdbcsci*
alias: pci:v00001000d000002B1svsdbcsci*
alias: pci:v00001000d000002B0svsdbcsci*
alias: pci:v00001000d0000006Esvsdbcsci*
alias: pci:v00001000d00000087svsdbcsci*
alias: pci:v00001000d00000086svsdbcsci*
alias: pci:v00001000d00000085svsdbcsci*
alias: pci:v00001000d00000084svsdbcsci*
alias: pci:v00001000d00000083svsdbcsci*
alias: pci:v00001000d00000082svsdbcsci*
alias: pci:v00001000d00000081svsdbcsci*
alias: pci:v00001000d00000080svsdbcsci*
alias: pci:v00001000d00000065svsdbcsci*
alias: pci:v00001000d00000064svsdbcsci*
alias: pci:v00001000d00000077svsdbcsci*
alias: pci:v00001000d00000076svsdbcsci*
alias: pci:v00001000d00000074svsdbcsci*
alias: pci:v00001000d00000072svsdbcsci*
alias: pci:v00001000d00000070svsdbcsci*
depends: scsi_transport_sas,raid_class
name: mpt3sas
vermagic: 4.18.0-372.9.1.el8.x86_64 SMP mod_unload modversions
sig_id: PKCS#7
signer: ELRepo.org Secure Boot Key
sig_key: E9:D4:71:CF:B4:FE:13:6C
sig_hashalgo: sha256
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parm: logging_level: bits for enabling additional logging info (default=0)
parm: max_sectors:max sectors, range 64 to 32767 default=32767 (ushort)
parm: missing_delay: device missing delay , io missing delay (array of int)
parm: max_lun: max lun, default=16895 (ullong)
parm: hbas_to_enumerate: 0 - enumerates both SAS 2.0 & SAS 3.0 generation HBAs
1 - enumerates only SAS 2.0 generation HBAs
2 - enumerates only SAS 3.0 generation HBAs (default=0) (ushort)
parm: diag_buffer_enable: post diag buffers (TRACE=1/SNAPSHOT=2/EXTENDED=4/default=0) (int)
parm: disable_discovery: disable discovery (int)
parm: prot_mask: host protection capabilities mask, def=7 (int)
parm: enable_sdev_max_qd:Enable sdev max qd as can_queue, def=disabled(0) (bool)
parm: multipath_on_hba:Multipath support to add same target device
as many times as it is visible to HBA from various paths
(by default:
SAS 2.0 & SAS 3.0 HBA - This will be disabled,
SAS 3.5 HBA - This will be enabled) (int)
parm: host_tagset_enable:Shared host tagset enable/disable Default: enable(1) (int)
parm: max_queue_depth: max controller queue depth (int)
parm: max_sgl_entries: max sg entries (int)
parm: msix_disable: disable msix routed interrupts (default=0) (int)
parm: smp_affinity_enable:SMP affinity feature enable/disable Default: enable(1) (int)
parm: max_msix_vectors: max msix vectors (int)
parm: irqpoll_weight:irq poll weight (default= one fourth of HBA queue depth) (int)
parm: mpt3sas_fwfault_debug: enable detection of firmware fault and halt firmware - (default=0)
parm: perf_mode:Performance mode (only for Aero/Sea Generation), options:
0 - balanced: high iops mode is enabled &
interrupt coalescing is enabled only on high iops queues,
1 - iops: high iops mode is disabled &
interrupt coalescing is enabled on all queues,
2 - latency: high iops mode is disabled &
interrupt coalescing is enabled on all queues with timeout value 0xA,
default - default perf_mode is ‘balanced’ (int)