Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:58:26 +0000 From: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz_lst@tdx.co.uk> To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Starting out in iSCSI - recovery questions / options from target vanishing... Message-ID: <071FB5A0A2DC2EFA265933DE@HPQuadro64.dmpriest.net.uk>
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Hi, I've been looking at setting up iSCSI on my home network. I have a windows machine, which I've installed iSCSI target software on, and set it up. I'm using FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE - and I've setup iSCSI as an initiator on that. At the end of the day, I get the following logged when I've finished setting it up: " Jan 12 20:25:30 test kernel: da0 at iscsi0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 Jan 12 20:25:30 test kernel: da0: <CCDISK iSCSI Cake > Fixed Direct Access SCSI-4 device Jan 12 20:26:21 test kernel: GEOM_LABEL: Label for provider da0s1 is ufsid/4b4cdaed5db746bf. " I can label, partition, format and mount da0 - and everything works fine, which looks pretty successful. Until I 'break the connection' - either by restarting the windows iSCSI target, or pulling the network cable. Whatever was in progress on da0 expectedly freezes. However, when the connection is available again - nothing seems to re-attach, continue, or error. I'd guess I may be being optimistic if I expected it to re-attach, and continue without error - but is there any way of either avoiding the freeze (or raining in the timeout) - or forcing things to try to reconnect? I don't mind getting errors, or trashing the iSCSI drive (it's only used for shifting backups on to large drives on the windows machine) - but as it is, the only way to recover is to restart the FreeBSD box. If someone can point me in the right direction, or explain what's "meant to happen" that'd be great, Thanks, -Karl
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