Hi Andrew, Could you please try the new ips package from: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/device_drivers/projects/serveraid/SUNWips.tar.gz
Once you verify my simple fixing, I will update the new package to opensolaris and replace the old one. Thanks in advance! Javen Andrew Deason wrote: >On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 09:59:12 +0800 >"javen.wu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>Hi Andrew, >> >>Thanks for your information. >>I think the problem caused by "inquiry page83" response always same >>in ips driver. >>You know IBM serveRAID controller is not a real SCSI controller and >>the logic volumes don't recognize SCSI command actually. >>But we put the ips driver under Solaris SCSA storage driver stack and >>try to prevent the ips driver as a SCSI HBA driver. >>Consequently, I faked some SCSI commands response in the ips driver. >>"devid" is generated according the response of inquiry page83(GUID). >>I guess the problem you met is caused by generating GUID incorrectly >>in the ips driver. I need take a look... >> >> > >I thought this might be it. Is there any potential solution to this? I'm >not sure what you can base the GUID on... Right now do you just return >some constant GUID, or is it based one something? Could you possibly >just take into account the track number in addition to whatever's done >currently? > > > >>ips driver is not open sourced right now because I ported the ips >>driver from FreeBSD and I have no legal agreement. I tried to get >>legal agreement more than two years ago, but I didn't get that. :( >> >> > >Agreement from Sun or from FreeBSD? I would assume it's under a BSD-3 >license, which I couldn't imagine to be a problem, at least from >FreeBSD's end. > > > >>I don't remember the exact reason why I didn't get legal agreement. >>But I'd like try again if you think it's worth to do.(ips is to >>support old IBM serveRAID controllers). >> >> > >Well, it wasn't a big problem for me; I certainly wasn't intending on >compiling it myself. It just would have perhaps let me know what was >going on more quickly, since I would have liked to see how ips was >coming up with the devid or GUID that it returns. And I was just a >little confused by there being a bullet point for 'source code' on the >page for ips, but no link. > >So, it'd certainly be nice if ips were open, but it's not a big issue >and I don't want to create extra unnecessary work for you. > > > _______________________________________________ driver-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/driver-discuss
