Re: SCSI scanning behavior

[Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>]

On 08/26/15 06:02, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> On 08/21/2015 12:11 AM, Brian King wrote:
>> However, I'm still left wondering why we are adding PQ=1, PDT=0 devices in the sequential LUN scan at all.
>> Are there media changer devices out there that we've seen respond like this? Even so, does it make sense
>> to add PQ=1, PDT=0 LUNs for LUN > 0?
>>
> Yes, unfortunately we need this. NetApp arrays have a habit of
> returning 'PQ=1' for unconnected LUN 0, even though higher LUNs are
> present. So we need to add devices for PQ=1, otherwise we wouldn't
> be able to scan them.
> We _might_ be able to tweak this by ignoring devices with PQ=1 and
> LUN!=0; however, it might break other things.

Hello Hannes,

The code in scsi_scan.c already skips LUNs with PQ=1 and PDT=0x1f. I'm 
not sure we should skip LUNS with PQ=1 and a PDT value other than 0x1f.

Thanks,

Bart.