Has anyone seen an issue where an iSCSI target device is visible to
lsscsi but
no device directory is allocated in /sys/devices/platform?

The server is an IBM Xserve 3650 with 8 local SAS drives (3 logical
units),
with 8 Ethernet NICs, 3 connected.  The two onboard Broadcom NICs
are connected to the local server vlan and an iSCSI switch respectively;

the third is a intel PCI-X multiport board with 1 iSCSI link to a
different
iSCSI switch.   VLAN MTU/MRU is 1500 bytes, iSCSI is 9000.

The OS is redhat 5.6, fully patched.

The iSCSI array is a Dell md3200i.  The iSCSI switches are Dell.

What's driving us batty is that another similar server connected to
a different Dell md3200i array is fine.  A couple of day of groveling
in the Redhat, Dell, and general internet iscsi stuff hasn't turned up
either this problem or a likely solution.

The working and non-working systems are using the same Dell
switches, which have only iSCSI traffic.   Unplugging either of
the iSCSI Ethernet cables makes no difference.  Booting older
kernels makes no difference.  .  iscsiadm is successfully logging
 into the array.   lsscsi is showing and /sys is allocating
and udev is creating block devices for the generic Dell 20 MB drive
target.  But the specifically allocated drive is only half-visible:
lsscsi sees it, sysfs and udev do not.

-- Jim Leinweber
State Laboratory of Hygiene, University of Wisconsin - Madison
<[email protected]> 2810 Walton Commons West; phone +1 608 221 6281
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