On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Smith, Stan <[email protected]> wrote: > Sufficool, Stanley wrote: >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: [email protected] >>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chris Worley >>> Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2010 9:00 AM >>> To: [email protected] >>> Subject: [ofw] ***SPAM*** Proper way to re-find mirror of SRP drives >>> after link broken >>> >>> >>> In testing SRP over windows, with two drives over SRP >>> mirrored, pulling then replacing the IB cable, the drives come >>> back as "foreign" and need to be manually imported. >>> >>> That tells me that Windows is finding something about the >>> return of the drives to be different than before. >>> >>> Is there a way to assure Windows sees these drives as the >>> drives it had before? >> >> SRP on OFED-W is broken. It sends a DREQ on driver start but AFTER >> the volume is mounted. So not even a basic volume will mount >> reliably. > > > Lets be clear hear w.r.t. Windows SRP. > I'm not disputing what your claiming w.r.t. the timing of DREQ xmits, but as > far as basic mounts working, they mount just fine for vdisks.
It does mount reliably after reboot... cable reconnect is the issue. This is a vdisk on the Linux side... I'm not sure of the vdisk you're referring to. Are you saying there is no work-around for pulling/pushing the IB cable (other than manually importing then recreating the mirror)? Thanks, Chris > > stan smith. > > >> >> You will also find that this happens on a warm boot of the initiator. >> >> I'm not sure if this is your specific issue. >> >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Chris >>> _______________________________________________ >>> ofw mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ofw > > _______________________________________________ ofw mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ofw
