From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
To: Terrence Martin <tmartin@physics.ucsd.edu>
Cc: SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Stock 2.6.4 with CONFIG_LBD=y and qla2xxx driver, reports wrong device size
Date: 24 Mar 2004 16:25:15 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1080163517.1783.106.camel@mulgrave> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4061F531.50808@physics.ucsd.edu>
On Wed, 2004-03-24 at 15:53, Terrence Martin wrote:
> I have a stock 2.6.4 kernel with CONFIG_LBD=y turned on in my kernel
> (confirmed via /proc/config.gz) but when the module is loaded I still get
>
> SCSI device sdb: 191162368 512-byte hdwr sectors (97875 MB)
> SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write through
> sdb:
>
> I expect to get 4,287,645MB as that is what my Infortrend RAID array is
> set up for a partition size. Is there something, in addition to the LBD
> support in 2.6 that I need to do with the SCSI driver itself, in the
> case the qla2300 drivers that come with 2.6.4, to allow larger than 2TB
> block devices?
This looks to be a failure of the device. It's obviously reporting a
size smaller than it actually is for some reason.
The LDB code has been successfully tested with SCSI on >2TB arrays.
James
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-24 21:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-24 20:53 Stock 2.6.4 with CONFIG_LBD=y and qla2xxx driver, reports wrong device size Terrence Martin
2004-03-24 21:25 ` James Bottomley [this message]
2004-03-24 21:53 ` Stock 2.6.4 with CONFIG_LBD=y and qla2xxx driver, reports wrongdevice size Guy
2004-03-24 22:01 ` James Bottomley
2004-03-24 22:07 ` Stock 2.6.4 with CONFIG_LBD=y and qla2xxx driver, reportswrongdevice size Guy
2004-03-24 22:28 ` Terrence Martin
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