Re: Problem created by Zoning on Linux

Mike Anderson (andmike@us.ibm.com)
Mon, 31 Mar 2003 09:46:01 -0800


chandrasekhar.nagaraj [chandrasekhar.nagaraj@patni.com] wrote:
> But the second Host, which should have access to LUN 4 to 7, has some
> problem.
> The /proc/partitions does not show any scsi device file. Also
> /proc/scsi/scsi does not entries corresponding to LUN 4 to 7; but it have
> only one entry corresponding to LUN 0 (which should not be allowed).
>
> So, is there any restriction on Linux that the LUN number should start with
> 0 only??
> If so, then what is the solution/workaround?

You did not mention the kernel version you are working with, but I will
assume that it is 2.4 based (2.5 supports report_luns and should avoid
this problem).

The failure looks like you need to set a sparse lun flag for this
storage device. Add an entry with the BLIST_SPARSELUN flag set to the
device_list array in scsi_scan.c for this storage device.

If the scanning is happening post boot you could turn on some scan
logging to verify this issue.
echo "scsi log scan 4" > /proc/scsi/scsi
You can set logging during boot, but you can only control all logging or
none and it sometimes generates to much output.

-andmike

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Michael Anderson
andmike@us.ibm.com

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