Re: fsck failure at boot

[Jason Dixon <jason dixongroup net>]

On Apr 21, 2006, at 2:23 PM, Tom Sightler wrote:

> On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 21:55 -0400, Jason Dixon wrote:
>
> > Does anyone have any clues as to why this is happening?  If I comment
> > out the relevant line in fstab, the machine boots up fine.  I can
> > then manually mount the filesystem, but certainly this should not be
> > necessary.
>
> You didn't say what type of storage, my guess is an active/passive
> array?

No, it's a Xserve RAID array connected through a Brocade switch.   
Works fine with OpenBSD, same card.  Here is the relevant snippet  
from dmesg:


QLogic Fibre Channel HBA Driver (a0000002002738a8)
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:01.0[A]: no GSI
qla2300 0000:02:01.0: Found an ISP2300, irq 63, iobase  
0xc00000080fc00000
qla2300 0000:02:01.0: Configuring PCI space...
qla2300 0000:02:01.0: Configure NVRAM parameters...
qla2300 0000:02:01.0: Verifying loaded RISC code...
qla2300 0000:02:01.0: Waiting for LIP to complete...
qla2300 0000:02:01.0: LIP reset occured (f800).
qla2300 0000:02:01.0: LOOP UP detected (2 Gbps).
qla2300 0000:02:01.0: Topology - (F_Port), Host Loop address 0xffff
scsi4 : qla2xxx
qla2300 0000:02:01.0:
QLogic Fibre Channel HBA Driver: 8.00.00b21-k
  QLogic QLA2310 -
  ISP2300: PCI-X (66 MHz) @ 0000:02:01.0 hdma+, host#=4, fw=3.03.02 IPX
  Vendor: APPLE     Model: Xserve RAID       Rev: 1.26
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 05
qla2300 0000:02:01.0: scsi(4:0:0:0): Enabled tagged queuing, queue  
depth 32.
  Vendor: APPLE     Model: Xserve RAID       Rev: 1.26
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 05
qla2300 0000:02:01.0: scsi(4:0:0:1): Enabled tagged queuing, queue  
depth 32.
SCSI device sdb: 980451328 512-byte hdwr sectors (501991 MB)
SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back
sdb: sdb1
Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi4, channel 0, id 0, lun 1


--
Jason Dixon
DixonGroup Consulting
http://www.dixongroup.net