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From: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Subject: Re: Multipathd not starting up properly
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 09:42:44 +0200
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Adam Huffman wrote:
> I'm seeing the following messages when I start multipathd:
>=20
> Aug 29 19:00:21 multipathd: error calling out /sbin/scsi_id -g -u -s=20
> /block/sda
> Aug 29 19:00:21 multipathd: error calling out /sbin/scsi_id -g -u -s=20
> /block/sdb
>=20
> Here is the output of multipath -v 3:
>=20
>=20
[ .. ]
> path checker =3D readsector0 (internal default)
> state =3D 2
> getprio =3D (null) (internal default)
> prio =3D 1
> getuid =3D /sbin/scsi_id -g -u -s /block/%n (internal default)
> error calling out /sbin/scsi_id -g -u -s /block/sda

This is your problem. Somehow 'scsi_id' cannot talk to the drive.
Try 'sg_inq /dev/sda' to find out where the problem is.

Cheers,

Hannes
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