talkmagic.co.uk

...apparently.

http://tinyurl.com/5jpakf

Did you see what I did there? Did you? Did you see it?

I think I'm going bananas. Two days sat swearing at openSUSE Linux for not understanding iSCSI, and it's not over yet.

You need a holiday mate.

Oak my god Tomo, you're obviously pining for something. take a leaf out of my book, go back to your roots.

I'm logged into Linux as root, as it happens...

I'm at the point of having to admit defeat. This never happened before. I can usually figure out anything in Linux, especially under pressure of a deadline, but this part of this operating system simply doesn't bloody work. I've recompiled the kernel, and it now reports a recoverable error condition that I can't find out about because the message that appears simply says that "an internal error has occurred", and that it's in an unrelated module. Installing from scratch and starting again shows cause and effect. The YaST2 system configuration tool crashes when it tries to save any modifications to an initial iSCSI target configuration. The boot log says the iSCSI daemon is running perfectly but querying its status with the relevant init.d control script says it's unused. It won't restart, choosing instead to refuse to stop. So, any changes that do get written before YaST2 crashes (believe me, it happens about one in ten tries) can only be applied by rebooting the whole operating system. The whole iSCSI subsystem is mostly undocumented, and the online community guides are either about connecting to an iSCSI target, out of date, or actually wrong. Something is very badly broken here and there is no fix for it. And yet, I have a feeling that I'm missing something simple, something other than sleep, something that makes it all go. Something interesting.

More coffee and one last re-installation, methinks.

Well as long as your using Linux your problem will be solved!

The something simple I missed turned out to be dumping openSUSE and going to Ubuntu 8.04. THough it's still woefully under documented, the kernel's precompiled with iSCSI support. Hurrah!

Mmmm Ubuntu 7.10 with compiz fusion. Love 'spinning the cube' when people come to visit. Gets a similar reaction to magic....'Whoooooarrrr do that again!!!!'

Ubuntu 8.04a or 8.04b?

Marvo Marky wrote:Ubuntu 8.04a or 8.04b?

I'm not really into Pokemon.

Standard 8.04 Desktop. iSCSI is already in the kernel. I started it in Grub using iscsi=true and Bob's your gameshow host! The service started and the daemon's obeying instructions. I created a simple fileio resource, set up a target in the conf file (two lines!), reloaded the daemon and it popped up in Microsoft's Initiator. XP sees it as a local hard disk. I formatted and partitioned it and am happily storing files on my new drive J:

Next, using logical volume manager to create iSCSI LUNs

EDIT: Tell you what, though. Whoever put openSUSE 11 together clearly didn't bother testing the iSCSI subsystem. Caveat emptor and all that.

I wish I hadn't even bothered to start reading this thread now...

Lady of Mystery wrote::shock:

I wish I hadn't even bothered to start reading this thread now...

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At first I thought that, although now I might memorise all of Tomo's posts and just casually start reciting it to the IT department in my college. Then leave before they have a chance to reply.

Great scott... Tomo has gone native on us I can't understand a word he says..

Quick Mandrake pass me the elephant gun.

Flash wrote:Great scott... Tomo has gone native on us I can't understand a word he says..

Quick Mandrake pass me the elephant gun.

Quick! Sign this suicide type note first!

Tomo wrote:suicide type note first

I prefer Suicide TypeNote 2. Fewer fatal errors.