QLogic HBA and max_luns

[Paul Howarth]

On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 22:40 +0400, karasiov at infobox.ru wrote:
> Hello, Paul.
> 
> >> options scsi_mod max_luns=8
> 
> PH> This is curious because I thought Fedora kernels (unlike RHEL kernels)
> PH> scanned all LUNs by default.
> 
> >> mkinitrd is done
> 
> PH> Was it done after the "options scsi_mod max_luns=8" line was added to
> PH> modprobe.conf?
> Yes. I did it five times or so... :)
> 
> Strange thing - but when I run sysctl -a | grep max_luns - I cant't find any word about
> max_luns. Where I can get info about configuration of running module?
> 
> >> scsi: host 4 channel 0 id 0 lun1 has a LUN larger than allowed by the host adapter
> >> scsi: host 4 channel 0 id 0 lun2 has a LUN larger than allowed by the host adapter
> 
> PH> Are these last two lines the result of the commands below, or did it
> PH> scan and detect lun1 and lun2 when the qla2300 module was loaded?
> 
> Tis is result of boot process. Below commands really did nothing - I
> look through /var/log/messages - and dmesg output - but silent was my
> answer.

What's the output of:
# more /proc/scsi/qla2xxx/* /proc/scsi/scsi

I don't know what's happening here really; your system appears to be
detecting the luns but refusing the use them for some reason.

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>