On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 10:42:57PM +0100, MAYER Andreas wrote:

> Since hwdown and hwup is not useable (at least for me) because SCSI host
> adapter is not removed anymore I followed the suggestion to configure
> the tape devices using a script.
> We don't use multipathing for tape devices, is there a way to force the
> old behaviour, scsi_transport_fc parameters dev_loss_tmo and
> remove_on_dev_loss may be related?

It is not possible to switch between the old and new behaviour and the
new behaviour is also the correct one. Before the change, setting an
adapter offline and then online again would change the SCSI host for
the FCP adapter, e.g. from host0 to host1. This change caused problems
with multipathing setups with disk and tape. With the change, the
registered SCSI host stays the same which is correct approach: The FCP
adapter is still the same, so the SCSI host has also to stay the same.

The assumption from the hwup and hwdown scripts is wrong, that there
will be a kernel event for a new SCSI host, when the hardware did not
change.

--
Christof Schmitt

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