Re: strange error messages on bootup
On Fri, 2 Sep 2005 22:51:35 +0000 (UTC), Faheem Mitha
<faheem@email.unc.edu> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just did a new installation on a server with dual Opterons and 8 250
> G disks using RAID 10, with a total of 1 Tb usable storage space.
>
> I can give more specs detailed if necessary.
>
> I'm seeing lots of lines like the following scroll by at bootup
>
> "scsi: host 4 channel 0 id 0 lun 0x642e6b6f3a202f6c has a LUN larger
> than currently supported."
>
> All these lines are similar, in that only the string after the word
> 'lun' differs, and there must be hundreds of them at least.
>
> This is with both of the stock Debian kernels
> kernel-image-2.6.8-11-amd64-generic and
> kernel-image-2.6.8-11-amd64-k8. The machine seems to be working
> completely normally as far as I can tell. However, I'm wondering if
> anyone has an idea what these mesages mean, what problem it indicates,
> if any, and what would be needed to fix it.
I should not have been in such a hurry to send out this message. It
appears this message appears because I was using a non-SMP kernel on a
SMP system, though I still don't know what it means.
Sorry about the noise.
Faheem.
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