Dear Beowulfers,
We ran into a problem with large disks which I suspect is fairly common,
however the usual solutions are not working. IBM, RedHat have not been able
to provide any useful answers so I am turning to this list for help. (Emulex
is still helping, but I am not sure how far they can go without access to
the hardware)
Details:
* Linux Cluster for Weather modelling
* IBM Bladecenter blades and an IBM x3655 Opteron head node FC attached to
a Hitachi Tagmastore SAN storage, Emulex LightPulse FC HBA, PCI-Express,
Dual port
* RHEL 4update5, x86_64 kernel 2.6.9-55 SMP and RHEL provided Emulex driver
(lpfc) and lpfcdfc also installed
* GPT partition created with parted
There is one 2TB LUN, works fine.
There is a 3TB LUN on the Hitachi SAN which is reported as "only" 2199GB (
2.1TB) ,
We noticed that, when the emulex driver loads, the following error message
is reported:
Emulex LightPulse Fibre Channel SCSI driver 8.0.16.32
Copyright(c) 2003-2007 Emulex. All rights reserved.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:2d:00.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) ->
IRQ 185
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:2d:00.0 to 64
lpfc 0000:2d:00.0: 0:1305 Link Down Event x2 received Data: x2
x4 x1000
lpfc 0000:2d:00.0: 0:1305 Link Down Event x2 received Data: x2
x4 x1000
lpfc 0000:2d:00.0: 0:1303 Link Up Event x3 received Data: x3 x1
x10 x0
scsi5 : IBM 42C2071 4Gb 2-Port PCIe FC HBA for System x on PCI
bus 2d device 00 irq 185 port 0
Vendor: HITACHI Model: OPEN-V*3 Rev: 5007
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision:
03
sdb : very big device. try to use READ CAPACITY(16).
sdb : READ CAPACITY(16) failed.
sdb : status=1, message=00, host=0, driver=08
sdb : use 0xffffffff as device size
SCSI device sdb: 4294967296 512-byte hdwr sectors (2199023 MB)
SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back
sdb : very big device. try to use READ CAPACITY(16).
sdb : READ CAPACITY(16) failed.
sdb : status=1, message=00, host=0, driver=08
sdb : use 0xffffffff as device size
SCSI device sdb: 4294967296 512-byte hdwr sectors (2199023 MB)
SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back
The problem is with the READ CAPACITY(16) failed, but we are unable to find
the source of this error.
We conducted several experiments without success:
- Tried compiling the latest driver from Emulex (8.0.16.32) - same error
- Tried Knoppix (2.6.19) and Gentoo LiveCD (2.6.19) , and CentOS 4.4 -
same error
- Tried to boot Belenix (Solaris 32 bit live), failed to boot completely
(may be unrelated issue)
We have a temporary workaround in place: We created 3x1TB disks and used LVM
to create a striped 3TB volume with ext3 FS. This works fine.
RedHat claims ext3 and RHEL4 supports disks upto 8TB and 16TB respectively
(since RHEL4u2)
I would like to know if anyone on the list has any pointers that can help us
solve the issue.
Regards
Anand Vaidya
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