Hello, We have a disk-array connected over a Mellanox MT25204 IB card. We have configured LUNs with a size of over 2 TB with 512 byte sector size and are using OpenIB 1.1 and SUSE SLES 10 x86_64. I get the following output in /var/log/messages when adding a LUN:
Feb 2 09:59:57 data1 kernel: Vendor: DDN Model: S2A 9550 Rev: 3.03 Feb 2 09:59:57 data1 kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 06 Feb 2 09:59:57 data1 kernel: sdc : very big device. try to use READ CAPACITY(16). Feb 2 09:59:57 data1 kernel: sdc : READ CAPACITY(16) failed. Feb 2 09:59:57 data1 kernel: sdc : status=0, message=00, host=5, driver=00 Feb 2 09:59:57 data1 kernel: sdc : use 0xffffffff as device size Feb 2 09:59:57 data1 kernel: SCSI device sdc: 4294967296 512-byte hdwr sectors (2199023 MB) Feb 2 09:59:57 data1 kernel: sdc: Write Protect is off Feb 2 09:59:57 data1 kernel: sdc: Mode Sense: 97 00 10 08 Feb 2 09:59:57 data1 kernel: SCSI device sdc: drive cache: write back w/ FUA Feb 2 09:59:57 data1 kernel: sdc : very big device. try to use READ CAPACITY(16). Feb 2 09:59:57 data1 kernel: sdc : READ CAPACITY(16) failed. Feb 2 09:59:57 data1 kernel: sdc : status=0, message=00, host=5, driver=00 Feb 2 09:59:57 data1 kernel: sdc : use 0xffffffff as device size Feb 2 09:59:57 data1 kernel: SCSI device sdc: 4294967296 512-byte hdwr sectors (2199023 MB) Feb 2 09:59:57 data1 kernel: sdc: Write Protect is off Feb 2 09:59:57 data1 kernel: sdc: Mode Sense: 97 00 10 08 Feb 2 09:59:57 data1 kernel: SCSI device sdc: drive cache: write back w/ FUA Feb 2 09:59:57 data1 kernel: sdc: unknown partition table Feb 2 09:59:57 data1 kernel: sd 8:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sdc Feb 2 09:59:57 data1 kernel: sd 8:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0 I found in the Changelog of kernel 2.6.20 the following instruction: target_host->max_cmd_len = sizeof ((struct srp_cmd *) (void *) 0L)->cdb; (added to the function srp_create_target to achieve READ CAPACITY(16) ) and added it to the ib_srp module of OpenIB 1.1. The output was then: Feb 5 17:53:07 data1 kernel: Vendor: DDN Model: S2A 9550 Rev: 3.03 Feb 5 17:53:07 data1 kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 06 Feb 5 17:53:07 data1 kernel: sdc : very big device. try to use READ CAPACITY(16). Feb 5 17:53:07 data1 kernel: sdc : sector size 0 reported, assuming 512. Feb 5 17:53:07 data1 kernel: SCSI device sdc: 1 512-byte hdwr sectors (0 MB) Feb 5 17:53:07 data1 kernel: sdc: Write Protect is off Feb 5 17:53:07 data1 kernel: sdc: Mode Sense: 97 00 10 08 Feb 5 17:53:07 data1 kernel: SCSI device sdc: drive cache: write back w/ FUA Feb 5 17:53:07 data1 kernel: sdc : very big device. try to use READ CAPACITY(16). Feb 5 17:53:07 data1 kernel: sdc : sector size 0 reported, assuming 512. Feb 5 17:53:07 data1 kernel: SCSI device sdc: 1 512-byte hdwr sectors (0 MB) Feb 5 17:53:07 data1 kernel: sdc: Write Protect is off Feb 5 17:53:07 data1 kernel: sdc: Mode Sense: 97 00 10 08 Feb 5 17:53:07 data1 kernel: SCSI device sdc: drive cache: write back w/ FUA Feb 5 17:53:07 data1 kernel: sdc: unknown partition table Feb 5 17:53:07 data1 kernel: sd 9:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sdc Feb 5 17:53:07 data1 kernel: sd 9:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0 The same output was shown when trying to add a LUN using kernel 2.6.20. Is it possible to add LUNs with > 2 TB and 512 byte sectors ? Why does the READ CAPACITY(16) comand fail ? Kind regards, Thomas -- Thomas Großmann High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS) Allmandring 30 70550 Stuttgart, Germany E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: ++49-711-685-65529 Fax : ++49-711-685-65832 _______________________________________________ openib-general mailing list openib-general@openib.org http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general