> The exclusive refs held above are never released. Thus the kernel > correctly denies any other exclusive access to the devices. dm is > holding them all. I have never used dm so don't know much about it. It > seems that you'll have to make dm ignore those SCSI disks if you wanna > use them for any other purpose. I've never used it either, at least not directly. Whatever it is doing is automatic. However, you're right, I'm sorry for bringing up someone else's bug -- if nothing else, its good google fodder ;-) So far, its looking to me like a bug in Ubuntu Dapper. I haven't yet figured out how to tell Ubuntu to leave my devices alone (yes, I looked at udev), but at least I can get my disks working! $ dmsetup remove sde1 root@san001:~# mkfs.ext3 -m1 /dev/sde1 2>/dev/null >/dev/null && echo 1 1 Thank you! -- Eric Windisch <eric@xxxxxxxxxxxx> GrokThis.net - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
