On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 15:02, christophe varoqui wrote: > I wonder if it's not simpler just to remove the NOSTARTONADD flag on > this devices in scsi_devinfo.c. I tested that and all the READ CAPACITY > succeed as expected (DEC HSG80 / COMPAQ HSV*). > > Wasn't this flag in part motivated by the lack of multipath support > anyway ? > > Even in a cluster context, I don't really buy the annoyance of > occasional LUN ping-pong. It's not occasional, it happens every time a single machine in the cluster reboots and the HSG80 can take a while to transfer luns. Configure one with several hundred luns in a 32 node cluster and you'll see why this flag exists... James