http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=495224 User nice@titanic.nyme.hu added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=495224#c24 Tamás Németh <nice@titanic.nyme.hu> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW Info Provider|nice@titanic.nyme.hu | --- Comment #24 from Tamás Németh <nice@titanic.nyme.hu> 2009-05-22 18:31:51 MDT --- Relevant material about the Linux vs. StorageTek 6140 / AVT vs. RDAC topics: http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5296322 https://www.eng.utoledo.edu/ecc/secure-docs/user/sun_docs/6130/infodoc-83529... OpenSUSE 10.3 (which lacked the rdac hardware handler, at least with the xen.org 2.6.18 kernel) works with this storage (at least after modifying some sysV init scripts), but openSUSE 11.1 does not: Finally I set the host type to 'Linux' (non-AVT, RDAC supported), but the xen kernel always(?) fails to load the system. Is stalls at a certain point (see and attached image later). Default kernel also stalls sometimes (seen another attched image), but sometimes succeeds to load the system and then: -There are no storage system warning messages (I think it's because this RDAC thing informs the kernel which path to use). -All fibrechannell path devices are recognized, thus all multipath volumes are constructed correctly. -YaST2/partitioning works. -YaST2/bootloader module works. -mkinitrd finishes its job quickly. but: -/etc/init.d/boot.multipath is still unable to remove multipaths during shutdown (see the reopened https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468826 ) So, in order to be able to use Xen I have to revert to AVT instead of RDAC (I think the rdac subsytem in the kernel recognizes AVT mode, so no configuration change is necessary, since during booting I've seen messages like this: rdac: AVTmode detected) To sum up, although both AVT and RDAC mode seems to be broken with openSUSE 11.1 on this storage, RDAC behaves better if it accidentally happens to finish the boot process. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.