<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Hi list,<br><br>CentOS 4.4 connecting to Promise M500i iSCSI disk array. 2/4 servers
connect fine with iscsi-initiator-utils-4.0.3.0-4. The other 2 servers
have this in dmesg:<br><br>SCSI device sdb: 1 512-byte hdwr sectors (0 MB)<br>sdb: asking for cache data failed<br>sdb: assuming drive cache: write through<br>SCSI device sdb: 1 512-byte hdwr sectors (0 MB)<br>sdb: asking for cache data failed<br>sdb: assuming drive cache: write through<br> sdb:<6>Device sdb not ready.<br>end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 0<br>Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 0<br>Device sdb not ready.<br>end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 0<br>Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 0<br>Device sdb not ready.<br>end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 0<br>Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 0<br>Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0<br><br><br>The drive does not allow connections after this failed attempt at guessing the write cache type.<br><br>Is
there a way to hard-code the write cache setting on the server? Anyone
experience this with other hardware/iscsi/promise devices?<br><br><br>Brian<br></div></div><br>
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