Re: [Xen-devel] pvscsi broken

[Andrew Lyon <andrew.lyon@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Jun Kamada <kama@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 10:49:57 +0100
> Andrew Lyon <andrew.lyon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Jun Kamada <kama@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > Hi Andrew-san,
>> >
>> > Which assignment mode, LUN mode or Host mode, do you use? If you used
>> > the LUN mode, only mandatory SCSI commands can work and almost all
>> > tape related commands will fail.
>> >
>> > Could you try the Host mode? Please see
>> > "http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2009-02/msg00505.html";
>> > for usage of the Host mode.
>> >
>> > Best regards,
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>> I used a config setting like this: #vscsi=['/dev/st0, 0:0:0:0'] which
>> I guess must be LUN mode, I removed the setting and used a "xm attach
>> <dom>  8:0:5:0 host" which was successful and "xm scsi-list" shows the
>> device is attached, but nothing was detected in windows, perhaps it
>> needs to be there as soon as windows is booted, what is the syntax to
>> specify host mode in the config file?
>
> Syntax is as same as in case of "xm scsi-attach". Please replace
> "0:0:0:0" with keyword "host".
>
> BTW, I suppose the problem you are facing is caused by inconsistency
> between backend driver and xend. (The xend support host mode but the
> driver does not support it, maybe.) I reccomend you to use xen unstable
> to avoid such a problem.
>
> Best regards,


I am running unstable, up to date as of 9am GMT today.

Andy

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