-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 It turns out there was a quirkiness in the target I'm using. The good people developing open-iscsi suggested I use a newer snapshot that already knows about my hardware as opposed to the debian package. All is well now. Hope this is useful to other folk. Yuri ycsapo wrote: > Hi all, > > I wonder if anyone has any idea what error 1006 means in: > > iscsid: detected iSCSI connection (handle 0xf7d16600) error (1006) state (3) > > This shows up in messages whenever I try to mkfs a volume on an SAN > connected via iSCSI. This is my setup: > > My server (called screms) is a Dell PE1650 running Debian testing > (etch), kernel 2.6.15-1-686-smp, open-iscsi 1.0-485 as provided by the > official kernel package. > > The Dell connects to the SAN through its builtin Gig-ethernet NIC (Intel > PRO/1000). This NIC is connected to a Cisco switch which connects to the > SAN through one of its Gig-ethernet fiber ports. The SAN is built by > Hitachi around a McData switch which has 2 fiber-channel and 2 fiber > ethernet iSCSI ports. > > The server's IP address is 192.168.1.88; the SAN's IP address is > 192.168.1.10. The network between the server and the SAN is segregated > to its own vlan. > > I don't think any of these details are relevant, the same symptoms occur > with any other connection mode I was able to try so far. I've included > them here for completion's sake. > > From the server acting as an initiator, I can query the SAN: > > screms:~# iscsiadm -m discovery -t sendtargets -p 192.168.1.10 > [8664fe] 192.168.1.10:3260,-1 eui.50060e800044ddb2 > [8664fc] 192.168.1.10:3260,-1 eui.50060e800044ddb0 > > I can also login to the controller: > > screms:~# iscsiadm -m node -r 8664fc --login > screms:~# dmesg|tail > scsi29 : iSCSI Initiator over TCP/IP, v.0.3 > Vendor: HITACHI Model: DF600F Rev: 0000 > Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 04 > SCSI device sdf: 150994944 512-byte hdwr sectors (77309 MB) > SCSI device sdf: drive cache: write through > SCSI device sdf: 150994944 512-byte hdwr sectors (77309 MB) > SCSI device sdf: drive cache: write through > sdf: unknown partition table > sd 29:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sdf > sd 29:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg6 type 0 > i.50060e800044ddb0 > > However when I try to mkfs the sdf device the process hangs while > writing inode tables at around 180/576. If I log out of the controller > the mkfs process does finish but the resulting fs is unusable. > > Any takers? > > Thanks! > > - -- Yuri Csapo Academic Computing & Networking Colorado School of Mines Green Center Rm 249 Phone: (303) 273-3503 Fax: (303) 273-3475 Email: ycsapo@xxxxxxxxx Please use the following link to open a service request: http://helpdesk.mines.edu =========================================== With a PC, I always felt limited by the software available. On Unix, I am limited only by my knowledge. - --Peter J. Schoenster -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFK+66+RvQxW88fq4RAvVFAKCBdZJaOtkS7f7dwUjWo4qquVVOrQCeIGo4 Hl5WDPeXcmTKMjBOQrYPY9c= =xdkn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
