From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Patrick Mansfield Subject: Re: [RFC & PATCH 2.6.9-rc1] Add Blacklist for RAID configuration luns Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 07:40:23 -0700 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20040914144023.GA9524@beaverton.ibm.com> References: <20040914063237.GA97486@sgi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from e5.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.105]:28609 "EHLO e5.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269330AbUINOkf (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Sep 2004 10:40:35 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040914063237.GA97486@sgi.com> List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Jeremy Higdon Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, axboe@suse.de On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 11:32:37PM -0700, Jeremy Higdon wrote: > Engenio RAIDs have special luns that are used for configuring the RAID. > These luns have a device type of 0 (disk), but do not adhere to > standard disk semantics. To avoid having to parse potentially dozens > of error messages during initialization, it's good to avoid attaching > these devices to sd. This can be done by changing the device type > to RAID (0xC). What error messages are output without your patch? -- Patrick Mansfield