On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 15:45 +0100, ILLES, Marton wrote: > 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}, OK, I have applied this with difficulty: your email tool has converted all the tabs in the patch to spaces. James -- 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