Re: No drives come online in 2.6.32?

[Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>]

On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 04:46:55PM -0700, Grant Grundler wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 09:19:19PM -0500, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> > When booting 2.6.32, my scsi drives don't come online, all I see during boot is:
> > ~~~
> > sym53c8xx 0000:00:01.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0003)
> > sym53c8xx 0000:00:01.0: enabling SERR and PARITY (0003 -> 0143)
> > sym53c8xx 0000:00:01.1: enabling device (0000 -> 0003)
> > sym53c8xx 0000:00:01.1: enabling SERR and PARITY (0003 -> 0143)
> > sym53c8xx 0000:00:02.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0003)
> > sym53c8xx 0000:00:02.0: enabling SERR and PARITY (0003 -> 0143)
> > sym53c8xx 0000:00:02.1: enabling device (0146 -> 0147)
> > ~~~
> > When booting 2.6.32-rc6 the drives come online right away after they
> > are enabled.
> > 
> > No amount of waiting helps.
> 
> Do you have CONFIG_SCSI_SCAN_ASYNC=y ?
> 
> If so, add CONFIG_SCSI_WAIT_SCAN=m or disable SCAN_ASYNC.
> 
> While this should work, it sounds like it's not working.

Huh?  The wait scan module will wait for scans to complete.  This sounds
like the scans are never starting.

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