Re: Support for >8 SCSI-3 LUNs in 2.4?

From: Matthew Jacob (mjacob@feral.com)
Date: Fri Aug 11 2000 - 17:08:07 EST


You can support up to 65536 luns with the Qlogic SCC f/w.

The midlayer needs to do a REPORT LUNS command to know how many luns to scan
for (hell, NT does it), but that's not likely to happen for 2.4.

On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Craig Ruff wrote:

> Does the SCSI subsystem in the 2.4 series support more than 8 logical units
> cleanly? SCSI-3 defines the LUN to be a 64-bit field, with interpretation
> up to the target device type. I haven't yet run across any device really
> using a full 64-bits of LUN, but some RAID controllers support > 32 LUNs.
> The qlogicfc driver supports up to 128 LUNs.
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