Re: [Scst-devel] Scst 0.9.4 formating problem

[Vladislav B. <vs...@vl...>]

Hi

Erik Rydell wrote:
> Hi all!
> 
> 
> We are running kernel 2.6.15.6, scst 0.9.4, qla2x00-target-26-0.9.3.8 and
> iscsitarget-0.4.13.
> 
> These are the importants modules that we load:
> qla2x00tgt             40448  3641466720 [permanent]
> scst_fileio            47488  0
> scst_disk              10112  0
> scsi_tgt              140552  3 qla2x00tgt,scst_fileio,scst_disk
> qla2200                87168  0
> qla2xxx               121968  6 qla2x00tgt,qla2200
> sym53c8xx              76308  3
> 
> When we export a device (/dev/evms/sde1) with IET, there are no problems so
> far.
> 
> But when sharing with scst instead, the same device but not ofcource at the
> same time, we run in to some errors.

How do you share it, using fileio or real device handler?

> When we pick up the device in a Win2000-box, we can make a partition but not
> format. The format ends with an error and says that it could not perform
> successfully. Both tried ntfs and fat32.
> 
> When trying the same in Linux, using fdisk to make a new dev, it does not
> write the result to the disk.
> 
> What are the knowledge here?

You should build SCST with DEBUG enabled (the default), enable scsi
logging via /proc/scsi_tgt/trace_level and send here the kernel logs
produced while you see the error. Without those logs it's hard to say
something.

> /Regards, Erik Rydell
> 
> 
> 
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