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Jim
Did you manage to get this working ?
I am now at a smiliar stage you were at back in January - i have 2.4.20 and ocfs 1.0.8 using a WD120GB firewire drive but when I mount node 2, the mount on node 1 goes
haywire
this is the dmesg on node 1 immediately before the mount on node 2 ;
Jul 22 07:53:35 RACTest2 kernel: - Max outstanding commands supported: 8
Jul 22 07:53:35 RACTest2 kernel: - Max outstanding commands per lun supported: 1
Jul 22 07:53:35 RACTest2 kernel: - Serialized I/O (debug): no
Jul 22 07:53:35 RACTest2 kernel: - Exclusive login: no
Jul 22 07:53:35 RACTest2 kernel: Vendor: WDC Model: FireWire/USB2.0 Rev: 4.17
Jul 22 07:53:35 RACTest2 kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 06
Jul 22 07:53:35 RACTest2 kernel: Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Jul 22 07:53:35 RACTest2 kernel: SCSI device sda: 390625000 512-byte hdwr sectors (200000 MB)
Jul 22 07:53:35 RACTest2 kernel: sda: sda1
Jul 22 07:53:47 RACTest2 kernel: Oracle Cluster FileSystem 1.0 (build d47937d2561aa67a726b842b50386454)
you can see teh exclusive login=0
then as i mount node 2 I get this on node 1
Jul 22 08:14:11 RACTest2 kernel: ieee1394: SelfID completion called outside of bus reset!
Jul 22 08:14:11 RACTest2 kernel: ieee1394: sbp2: Error reconnecting to SBP-2 device - reconnect failed
Jul 22 08:14:11 RACTest2 kernel: ieee1394: sbp2: Logged out of SBP-2 device
Jul 22 08:14:11 RACTest2 kernel: ieee1394: sbp2: Logged into SBP-2 device
Jul 22 08:14:11 RACTest2 kernel: ieee1394: sbp2: Node[01:1023]: Max speed [S400] - Max payload [2048]
Jul 22 08:14:12 RACTest2 kernel: ieee1394: sbp2: Reconnected to SBP-2 device
Jul 22 08:14:12 RACTest2 kernel: ieee1394: sbp2: Node[01:1023]: Max speed [S400] - Max payload [2048]
Jul 22 08:15:03 RACTest2 kernel: ieee1394: sbp2: aborting sbp2 command
Jul 22 08:15:03 RACTest2 kernel: Read (10) 00 00 00 00 69 00 00 24 00
Jul 22 08:15:13 RACTest2 kernel: ieee1394: sbp2: aborting sbp2 command
Jul 22 08:15:13 RACTest2 kernel: Test Unit Ready 00 00 00 00 00
Jul 22 08:15:13 RACTest2 kernel: ieee1394: sbp2: reset requested
Jul 22 08:15:13 RACTest2 kernel: ieee1394: sbp2: Generating sbp2 fetch agent reset
Jul 22 08:15:23 RACTest2 kernel: ieee1394: sbp2: aborting sbp2 command
Jul 22 08:15:23 RACTest2 kernel: Test Unit Ready 00 00 00 00 00
Jul 22 08:15:23 RACTest2 kernel: ieee1394: sbp2: reset requested
Jul 22 08:15:23 RACTest2 kernel: ieee1394: sbp2: Generating sbp2 fetch agent reset
Jul 22 08:15:38 RACTest2 kernel: ieee1394: sbp2: aborting sbp2 command
Jul 22 08:15:38 RACTest2 kernel: Test Unit Ready 00 00 00 00 00
Jul 22 08:15:38 RACTest2 kernel: scsi: device set offline - not ready or command retry failed after bus reset: host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0
Jul 22 08:15:38 RACTest2 kernel: SCSI disk error : host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 return code = 50000
Jul 22 08:15:38 RACTest2 kernel: I/O error: dev 08:01, sector 42
nasty
my /etc/modules.conf is fine and i am now considering using lvm but i just wondered if you'd managed to resolve it and if so how ?
regards
paul gallagher

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