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SubjectRe: SCSI /dev/sg question

This is a chicken/egg type problem. A lot of raid controllers can't be
managed until a lun is created (since there aren't any devices).
Some work around this by having a pass through driver that is installed to
configure the array. Once this is done, the driver is removed.

A lot of lower-end controller boards just use dos utilities, but many
higher end / external controllers just don't work that way.

-russ

>
> You need special tools to set up your SCSI config. I don't think, your
> Hardware RAID will be configurable by SCSI commands sent to it.
>
> If you have a hardware RAID, it should provide you the possibility to have
> config data exchanged in some way. Maybe by providing a device which you can
> IOCTL or talk to (and I would use a char device rather then simulate a SCSI
> device), but preferably by a /proc/scsi/myraid/? interface.
>
> I didn't look how the RAIDs in Linux do it, BTW. Have a look at the DAC960,
> eata, gdth, megaraid, pci2xx drivers.
>
> Regards,
> --
> Kurt Garloff <garloff@suse.de> Wuppertal, FRG
> PGP2 key: See mail header, key servers Linux kernel development
> SuSE GmbH, Nürnberg, FRG SCSI drivers: tmscsim(DC390), DC395
>


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