Hi, I was using a Sun ST2510 device (iSCSI) and a special "block device" appeared which is used by SUN Common Array Manager in-band management. However it also appeared as a block device and caused some IO error: [ 716.868000] scsi 15:0:0:31: Direct-Access SUN Universal Xport 0735 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 [ 716.868000] qla4xxx 0000:04:01.1: scsi(15:0:0:31): Enabled tagged queuing, queue depth 32. [ 716.868000] sd 15:0:0:31: [sdf] 40960 512-byte hardware sectors (21 MB) [ 716.868000] sd 15:0:0:31: [sdf] Write Protect is off [ 716.868000] sd 15:0:0:31: [sdf] Mode Sense: 77 00 10 08 [ 716.868000] sd 15:0:0:31: [sdf] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, supports DPO and FUA [ 716.868000] sd 15:0:0:31: [sdf] 40960 512-byte hardware sectors (21 MB) [ 716.868000] sd 15:0:0:31: [sdf] Write Protect is off [ 716.868000] sd 15:0:0:31: [sdf] Mode Sense: 77 00 10 08 [ 716.872000] sd 15:0:0:31: [sdf] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, supports DPO and FUA [ 716.872000] sdf: unknown partition table [ 716.932000] sd 15:0:0:31: [sdf] Attached SCSI disk [ 716.932000] sd 15:0:0:31: Attached scsi generic sg6 type 0 [ 717.412000] end_request: I/O error, dev sdf, sector 40 [ 717.412000] Buffer I/O error on device sdf, logical block 5 [ 717.412000] Buffer I/O error on device sdf, logical block 6 [ 717.412000] Buffer I/O error on device sdf, logical block 7 [ 717.412000] Buffer I/O error on device sdf, logical block 8 [ 717.412000] Buffer I/O error on device sdf, logical block 9 [ 717.412000] Buffer I/O error on device sdf, logical block 10 [ 717.412000] Buffer I/O error on device sdf, logical block 11 [ 717.412000] Buffer I/O error on device sdf, logical block 12 [ 717.412000] Buffer I/O error on device sdf, logical block 13 [ 717.412000] Buffer I/O error on device sdf, logical block 14 After some googling it appeared that similar issue has been solved for SGI/IBM devices in 4869040512082b761de2d7c35975d01044f8bfea, so here is the patch for SUN, please apply. diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_devinfo.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_devinfo.c index 18dd5cc..fb95b86 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_devinfo.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_devinfo.c @@ -219,6 +219,7 @@ static struct { {"SGI", "TP9100", "*", BLIST_REPORTLUN2}, {"SGI", "Universal Xport", "*", BLIST_NO_ULD_ATTACH}, {"IBM", "Universal Xport", "*", BLIST_NO_ULD_ATTACH}, + {"SUN", "Universal Xport", "*", BLIST_NO_ULD_ATTACH}, {"SMSC", "USB 2 HS-CF", NULL, BLIST_SPARSELUN | BLIST_INQUIRY_36}, {"SONY", "CD-ROM CDU-8001", NULL, BLIST_BORKEN}, {"SONY", "TSL", NULL, BLIST_FORCELUN}, /* DDS3 & DDS4 autoloaders */ Thanks, Marton PS: In case of reply, I am off the list. -- Key fingerprint = F78C 25CA 5F88 6FAF EA21 779D 3279 9F9E 1155 670D -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html