From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lars Marowsky-Bree Subject: Re: [dm-devel] [multipath] SCSI device capacity mess Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:21:54 +0200 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20041028182154.GY32712@marowsky-bree.de> References: <1098833278.4914.24.camel@zezette> <20041027081713.GC32712@marowsky-bree.de> <1098903759.12464.32.camel@zezette> <1098914250.1588.1.camel@mulgrave> <20041028113728.GT32712@marowsky-bree.de> <20041028181436.GA18874@beaverton.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Received: from gate.in-addr.de ([212.8.193.158]:61931 "EHLO mx.in-addr.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263359AbUJ2Omg (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Oct 2004 10:42:36 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041028181436.GA18874@beaverton.ibm.com> List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Patrick Mansfield Cc: device-mapper development , christophe varoqui , "linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" On 2004-10-28T11:14:36, Patrick Mansfield wrote: > > Can't we do a test-unit-ready before trying to read and then just n= ot > > read the partition table w/o so much noise? > We already issue a TUR in sd_spinup_disk() prior to the READ CAPACITY= and > partition reads. I'm just saying we should stop on the first failed command (TUR) and no= t retry to read all 64 sectors regardless. I can live with one error per passive path, but 64 really kills the logs. Sincerely, Lars Marowsky-Br=E9e --=20 High Availability & Clustering SUSE Labs, Research and Development SUSE LINUX AG - A Novell company - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html