On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 01:05:29AM +0530, Ankit Jain wrote: > aacraid: Add 'aac_export_fixed' module param to export disks as > 'fixed' instead of 'removable'. > > Adaptec controllers set the removable flag on devices to > allow for reconfiguration. The fear is that _not_ setting this > flag would inhibit the OS from detecting any device reconfiguration. The flag should not be set at all and just be removed. > This manifested itself in a bug where Paravirtualized NetWare > was not able to boot with more than one PHY disk attached to a Xen > VM. NetWare sees two removable disks (and not CD-ROM), which is > an unsupported configuration. Details can be found at - > https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=667226 . But if you can't get aacraid fixed entirely the next best work around is to stop Xen from blindly copying flags to the guest disk. -- 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
