[ale] Stupid Linux Tricks...

[Vaidhyanathan Mayilrangam]

Just an offhand idea.. Try turning off scan all scsi devices in the kernel..


Vaidhy

On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 05:53:04PM -0500, Hunter Eidson wrote:
> We've got an EMC Symmetrix 3430 here at work, connected via fiber to a
> couple of HP-UX boxes.  Our EMC also has several unused SCSI ports, and I
> thought I'd play with those and a couple of Linux boxes.  The Linux box I'm
> using for a test bed, is an Intel P3 with an Adaptec 2944UW SCSI card.  I've
> got the card configured so that it sees all 9 drives during the boot scan (3
> disks, and 6 gatekeepers), but RedHat Wolverine, RedHat 7.0, and SuSE 7.0
> all hang during the install.
> 
> If I do the install with the Symm's controller turned off, I can install w/o
> problems.  Then, when I start the RedHat 7.0 system after turning the Symm
> back on, it hangs during the SCSI driver init.
> 
> Getting EMC to give meaningful tech support is surprisingly difficult,
> considering how much yearly maintenance is...
> 
> Anyone had any luck trying to do something similar?  Any help is
> appreciated!
> 
> 	--Hunter
> 
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