Bug 205925

Summary:	sys-apps/sg3_utils-1.25, sys-apps/rescan-scsi-bus-1.25-r1: please stabilize
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Robin Johnson <robbat2>
Component:	[OLD] Server	Assignee:	AMD64 Project <amd64>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	base-system
Priority:	High	Keywords:	STABLEREQ
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Robin Johnson archtester

2008-01-15 09:22:22 UTC

target keywords: amd64 hppa ia64 ppc ppc64 sparc x86

These two should go stable together. For rescan-scsi-bus, r1 is a tiny detection fix over r0, because it was bailing out if you only had the newer sysfs support and had disabled the old /proc/scsi stuff (the rest of the app already supported both, and always used the 2.6 interface on new kernels).

testing procedures:
rescan-scsi-bus: Depending on your host controllers, this might not be safe for your data, so I wouldn't recommend just testing it directly. It does work on an fibre-channel controller I tested, as well as my external SATA array.

sg3_utils: 
I suggest trying either sg_vpd or sg_inq on a disk drive as safe commands. Some of the other stuff can write to disk, or cause a disk to be non-responsive for a while, so take care if you want to run others instead.

Comment 1 Christian Faulhammer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-01-15 10:19:20 UTC

x86 stable

Comment 2 Brent Baude (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-01-15 16:23:26 UTC

ppc64 done

Comment 3 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-01-16 15:57:58 UTC

Stable for HPPA.

Comment 4 Raúl Porcel (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-01-16 18:24:30 UTC

ia64 is not stable

Comment 5 Ferris McCormick (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-01-16 20:54:09 UTC

Sparc stable (tested with sg3_inq and sg3_vpd).

Comment 6 nixnut (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-01-31 18:11:09 UTC

ppc stable

Comment 7 Santiago M. Mola (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-03-22 22:50:36 UTC

amd64 stable, sorry for the delay.