Re: [Networker] Red Hat kernel version
2005-11-17 02:12:01
> In regard to: [Networker] Red Hat kernel version, Carl Farnsworth said (at...:
>
> > Today's contest: what's the latest kernel version for AS 2.1 that anyone
> > has a NetWorker Server (7.2.1) running on?
>
> This probably isn't much help to you, but we had to roll our own kernel on
> AS 2.1, for two reasons:
>
> - we use QLogic fibre HBAs, and the qla drivers in the 2.4.9.e-* kernels
> are pretty out of date.
Yep.
> - more importantly (for us), the Red Hat 2.4.9.e-* kernels are NOT built
> with CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN=y, so having multiple devices on
> one target id (but different LUNs) was a problem. There's probably a
> way around that issue (other than forcefully probing a particular LUN
> manually), but we found it easiest to just build our own kernel with
> multi-lun support enabled.
You can add the following line in /etc/modules.conf:
options scsi_mod max_scsi_luns=256 scsi_allow_ghost_devices=1
BRGDS
Dag
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