Ubuntu 7.10 Alpha Gust OS does not recognize a lun with non zero target id on Vmware ESX Server

Which specific version of the kernel do you have installed?

For Ubuntu 7.10 Alpha5, the kernel version is 2.6.22-10-generic.

This problem persists in Gutsy beta.

I went through the kernel code path about how the shost->max_id is set. Function mptspi_probe sets it to ioc->devices_per_bus. The ioc->devices_per_bus comes from the pfacts->MaxDevices in GetPortFacts(). And GetPortFacts() uses MPI_FUNCTION_PORT_FACTS as the function to get the pfacts->MaxDevices. The ESX Lsilogic emulation sets MaxDevices to 16 for MPI_FUNCTION_PORT_FACTS. So it should be 16.

I have tried the kernel source 2.6.22.6 downloaded from kernel.org. It does not have this problem.

Dahong Li:
Could I pursuade you to:
a) share your .config for 2.6.22.6?
and
b) try with 2.6.22.9?

I've just tried with 2.6.22.9 with the config from Ubuntu's -generic kernel and I get the same problem.

Thanks in advance!

I've tracked this down.

It seems to be a bug in VMWare's LSILogic emulation. It wrongfully says MaxDevices is 0.

To fix it, apply the patch from http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/23/345 and remove the mpt_channel_mapping stuff from /etc/modprobe.d/options. 112860 should remain resolved as it looks like basically the same issue as this, but with just one disk.

Hi Soren,

The patch and bug that MaxDevice is 0 which you mentioned are for the different issue which is tracked separately in VMware bugzilla. In that case, port reports no device. In this case, a port does not report the devices with non-zero target ID like scsi0:1. It still reports a device with zero target ID like scsi0:0. What is the MaxDevices in your 2.6.22.9 config?

Later,
Dahong

Gutsy commit e22ad0ffa59fdfb5186e205e49d190718c772c93

Tim, could you share what the fix is?

linux-source-2.6.22 (2.6.22-13.40) gutsy; urgency=low

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