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:
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>>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...
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>
>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?
>
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>>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. :(
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>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.
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>>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).
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>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.
>
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