On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 10:04:10AM -0500, Tom Sightler wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-11-20 at 10:33 +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> 
> > I think you need to load ioctl module for qla4xxx called "qisioctl". The
> > qlogic vendor driver includes this functionality "out of the box".
> 
> Thanks for the info Pasi.  I actually already had the qisioctl module
> installed, but it wasn't working.  It turns out that on this machine
> there seems to be some conflict between the iqlremote agent and the
> qisioctl module.
> 

Ok. 

Which version of qisioctl are you using? 

Which iSCSI SANsurfer (iqlremote) version? 

Maybe it's some version conflict.. make sure you have latest version of
SANsurfer.

Qlogic guys are reading open-iscsi mailinglist, so maybe you can also ask
from there.. 

> When I use the Qlogic qla4xxx driver I can run the iqlremote agent which
> allows me to configure the HBA via the SANsurfer GUI interface.  I can
> also use the iscli command line interface.
> 
> When I use the stock RHEL5.1 qla4xxx driver with qisioctl I can use the
> iscli interface as well.  If I attempt to start the iqlremote server,
> the service starts and seems to be attempting to work, but SANsurfer
> will not correctly connect to the device and it even interferes with the
> operation of iscli with the symptom of randomly failing to allow access
> to one or two of the iscsi ports (this machine has 4).
> 
> This sounds like it is probably a problem with qisioctl so I'll take it
> up with Qlogic.
> 

Yep. Please let us know what you find out :)

> In the meantime, when running with the stock qla4xxx driver we have not
> been able to reproduce the corruption.
> 

That's good to hear. 

-- Pasi

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