On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 09:12:59AM -0600, Rick McNeal wrote:
> I'd like to get a little more information regarding your trouble with
> format on Windows. You state that Windows can see the volume, but not
> format it. Are you able to attempt to format the drive, but the
> format command fails? Or is it a case of format not willing to run on
> the drive? Previously in my testing I never did the long format since
> the underlying drive is already formated and just needs the Windows
> label. It turns out the during the long format Windows uses the
> optional SCSI command VERIFY. I didn't support that previously and
> have now added the code (the latest OpenSolaris nightly builds would
> have it). If it a case of not being able to run format could you give
> me some more information about what version of Windows you're running
> and that platform?
I'm not sure if this is related, but every time I've tried to setup the
iSCSI target and connect to it with the Microsoft iSCSI Software
Initiator, it continually drops the connection. Most recently I tried
this with Solaris Express build 46.
In Windows XP I am able to see the volume, connect to it, and see it show
up in the Disk Management program, however once connected to it, the
Event Viewer shows the following information event in the System log
every 1-2 seconds:
Source: iScsiPrt
Category: None
Type: Information
Event ID: 34
A connection to the target was lost, but Initiator successfully
reconnected to the target. Dump data contains the target name.
Most operations will work on this volume such as formatting and then
reading and writing data, however they are extremely slow due to the
disconnects and will frequently fail.
Both systems are 32 bit x86. On the Solaris side of things here's the volume:
# iscsitadm list target -v
Target: wintgt
iSCSI Name:
iqn.1986-03.com.sun:02:70d96a85-5aba-436b-dd8f-abc36faa14df.wintgt
Connections: 1
Initiator:
iSCSI Name: iqn.1991-05.com.microsoft:vmxp
Alias: unknown
ACL list:
TPGT list:
LUN information:
LUN: 0
GUID: 0100000c294b752400002a0044fe1e3d
VID: SUN
PID: SOLARIS
Type: disk
Size: 256M
Status: online
Is there any way to prevent these disconnects? Is this a known issue?
Thanks,
Ed Plese
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