From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Anderson Subject: Re: problem with multipathd, not all paths added to a disk on boot Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 09:07:55 -0800 Message-ID: <20081106170755.GA11985@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <20081106143100.0FBC013375@smtp.l00-bugdead-prods.de> Reply-To: device-mapper development Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081106143100.0FBC013375@smtp.l00-bugdead-prods.de> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: dm-devel-bounces@redhat.com Errors-To: dm-devel-bounces@redhat.com To: Sebastian Reitenbach , device-mapper development List-Id: dm-devel.ids Sebastian Reitenbach wrote: > /dev/sdb in group vm-store, on 1:0:0:0 is not listed, however, lsscsi > has the disk in the list: > [1:0:0:0] disk IBM 1814 FAStT 0916 /dev/sdb > > for the disk that is not added to the group, I see sth like this > in /var/log/messages: > Nov 6 12:32:36 srv24 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 0 > Nov 6 12:32:39 srv24 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 0 > Nov 6 12:32:39 srv24 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 8 > Nov 6 12:32:42 srv24 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 0 > Nov 6 12:32:42 srv24 multipathd: sdb: add path (uevent) > Nov 6 12:32:42 srv24 multipathd: sdb: spurious uevent, path already in > pathvec > Nov 6 12:32:42 srv24 multipathd: sdb: failed to get path uid > Nov 6 12:32:45 srv24 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 0 > What does running "/sbin/scsi_id -g -u -s /block/sdb" return when you are in this failing mode? If scsi_id fails what does "sg_inq -v /dev/sdb" and "cat /sys/block/sdb/device/state" return? -andmike -- Michael Anderson andmike@linux.vnet.ibm.com