[Oracleasm-users] Oracle ASMLib and IBM SDD

[Joel Becker]

On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 07:43:42PM -0500, heath seals wrote:
> I'm seeing these calls to ioctl :
> 
> 28040 ioctl(4, 0x4c05, 0xfeff9130)      = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument)
> 28040 ioctl(4, 0x4c03, 0xfeff9130)      = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument)
> 28040 ioctl(4, 0x301, 0xfeff9530)       = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument)

	Tada.  0x4c05 = LOOP_GET_STATUS64, 0x4c03 = LOOP_GET_STATUS, and
0x301 is HDIO_GETGEO.  Since the IBM driver does not support GETGEO,
ASMLib cannot determine whether it is a partition or not.  IBM needs to
fix that.

Joel

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