From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kurt Garloff Subject: Re: max_scsi_luns and 2.4.19-pre10. Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 18:07:45 +0200 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: References: <1025052385.19462.5.camel@UberGeek> <20020626123337.GC1217@gum01m.etpnet.phys.tue.nl> <1025101125.19558.4.camel@UberGeek> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="i3lJ51RuaGWuFYNw" Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1025101125.19558.4.camel@UberGeek> List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Austin Gonyou Cc: Linux kernel list , Linux SCSI list --i3lJ51RuaGWuFYNw Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Austin, On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 09:18:45AM -0500, Austin Gonyou wrote: > On Wed, 2002-06-26 at 07:33, Kurt Garloff wrote: > > enough guesses have been there not answering your questions ... >=20 > Sure I hear that. But I posted an earlier question about QLA2200 and a You don't think that somebody who reads your message and tries to post a helpful comment scans the list for earlier messages of yours, do you? > PV 660F and not seeing > 8 luns with 2.4.19-pre10. ^^^^^^^ This device needs BLIST_LARGELUN. > I'll take a look at that, and see if I can merge it into -aa4.=20 The patch should be in there, just not the additional devices that need BLIST_LARGELUN. > > The flag does allow a device to use more than 8 LUNs despite it reporti= ng > > as SCSI Version 2 devices (which can not support more than 8 LUNs norma= lly > > ...)=20 > > The flag also needs to be set for some more devices, look for DGC, DELL= , CMD > > and CNSi/CNSI devices that already have the BLIST_SPARSELUN flag. >=20 > This would be a DELL device, so I'll see about changing it from > SPARESLUN to LARGELUN? No. Add " | BLIST_LARGELUN" . > > But as you did not post the output of /proc/scsi/scsi nor the syslog > > meesages from your SCSI subsystem nobody knows what devices you're usin= g or > > what actually happens. Just speculations ... >=20 > There's nothing to post from /proc/scsi/scsi or the syslog other than > there's no more than 8 devices on my FC chain. I guess the real point > here is that if you're using FC, you're probably going to use more than > 8 luns, even if not immediately. Especially for large Databases.=20 People could have seen what SCSI device you're using. So I could have told you instead of guessing and risking to add to the noise myself. Regards, --=20 Kurt Garloff Eindhoven, NL GPG key: See mail header, key servers Linux kernel development SuSE Linux AG, Nuernberg, DE SCSI, Security --i3lJ51RuaGWuFYNw Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9GebQxmLh6hyYd04RAm3FAKCC0vde624pbJGqc6nrmfHxhtzWlwCdEgbv H24DfGZ4+GbxeqRkM+A12z8= =Bt7M -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --i3lJ51RuaGWuFYNw--