Re: Support for lun > 7 on HP's XP128 storage

["Ionut Nistor" <ionut@modulo.ro>]

Sorry for being coming back on the same issue but should this (blacklisting
for XP) not be included in the kernel?

Thanks,
Ionut

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ionut Nistor" <ionut@wsp.ro>
To: <andrew@fc.hp.com>
Cc: <ionut@modulo.ro>
Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 9:03 PM
Subject: Re: Support for lun > 7 on HP's XP128 storage


> Hello Andrew,
>
> I know this, but I was hoping this gets included in the kernel's blacklist
> - should be since this is how XP works.
>
> By the way, do you happen to know why XP reports SCSI ver 2 but allows
> more than 8 LUNs? This sort of breaks the standard.
>
> Thanks,
> Ionut
>
> > On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 00:16, Ionut Nistor wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I am running a 2.4.18-ac3 kernel on a ia32 system.
> >> This system is connected to a SAN via an Emulex LP8000 HBA. The
> >> storage is HP's XP128. The controller on the storage reports scsi
> >> version 2 however, luns with ID > 7 are also supported. When the HBA
> >> driver is loaded, no LUNs are detected but if "scsi add-single-device"
> >> is used later, the luns are visible.
> >>
> >> Maybe it should be added to the kernel with BLIST_LARGELUN - correct
> >> me if I am wrong.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Ionut
> >>
> >
> > Try adding the following entries to the device_list in scsi_scan.c:
> >
> > {"HP", "OPEN-", "*", BLIST_SPARSELUN | BLIST_LARGELUN},
> > {"HP", "DISK-SUBSYSTEM", "*", BLIST_SPARSELUN | BLIST_LARGELUN},
> >
> >
> >
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