On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 8:56 PM, Daniel Lane <dracodan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 5:15 PM, Andy Grover <agrover@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On 09/14/2012 08:20 AM, Daniel Lane wrote: >>> I have another problem now though, not sure if I need to submit a new >>> E-mail to the list or not (for tracking), let me know if I do. >> >> Yeah I'd say you could start a new email thread next time, no biggie. >> >> (Also, please don't top post.) >> >>> The new problem: After rebuilding my initramfs and rebooting, I found >>> that roughly every 30 seconds the server would completely freeze for >>> about 30 seconds, but then go back to responding. This happens from >>> SSH and the local console, and no matter what I'm doing. Strangely a >>> continuous ping to the server never drops a packet or has any increase >>> response time. I tried using top to see if there was something causing >>> heavy CPU/Memory/IO but from what I could tell (top stops updating >>> during freezes). I checked /var/log/messages but there was nothing >>> pertaining to the problem. >>> >>> The one big thing that concerns me is the fact that I am NOT using a >>> "supported" HBA, my HBA is a QLogic QLA2362. I was curious whether >>> there was a reason why you guys say that only the 24xx+ cards are >>> compatible, were there issues with the older cards or were they just >>> not tested? >> >> I haven't been involved with the development but I believe support for >> pre-PCIe cards was explicitly REMOVED from the driver before it went >> into the mainline kernel. I'm surprised it even partially works. >> >> Regards -- Andy > > > That's disappointing... sure hope I win this auction for a QLE2462 so > I can give targetcli another shot. I would be interested in knowing > why it was removed since it was already in the driver and the card > worked perfectly with SCST. The abundance of PCI-X cards on ebay for > dirt cheap are what attracted me to the idea of using fiber channel > instead of iSCSI in the first place. With VMware labs being such a > popular use for this kind of thing I would think supporting old > hardware would be something to pay attention to... then again, I guess > the people doing home labs aren't paying customers (that wasn't meant > to sound derogatory). > > Sorry about the top post, that's where the gmail web client tries to > put everything by default. > > Thanks for the info! > Dan Part of this doesn't sound right, here is what the linux-iscsi site says for support: "QLogic 2400 Series (single-port QLx246x), 4GBFC" That first x can be an E for PCI-Express or an A for PCI-X, so is it the 236x cards that support was removed for? Is the info in the wiki a mistake? Thanks again, Dan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe target-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
