Comments on: Debian / Ubuntu Linux Connect to an iSCSI Volume

By: omidm

omidm — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 22:50:19 +0000

I am having problem to mount my iscsi targets. I already have two internal disks /dev/sda and /dev/sdb, and the iscsi is being supplied by qnap-ts459. I have following all that is in this article, but I still cannot see any additional disks either via fdisk -l or in /var/adm/emssages. When checking the provider/targets on qnap, I can see there is a connection to that target, but I cannot see it on my ubuntu 9.10. Also when I initially start iscsid (via /etc/init.d/open-iscsi), I get ln: /bin/init/rw/sendsigs.omit.d: no such a directory. I have to create this directory manually to get rid of this message. Any help wold be appreciated.

Omid.

By: Mr. Scary

Mr. Scary — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:23:30 +0000

Dr. Sain, thanks for that change (-o update -n node.conn[0].startup -v automatic)! I was blocked by that in the past. Now trying again and found your comment. This is such a hack. Shouldn’t that be covered by the line ‘node.startup = automatic’ in /etc/iscsi/iscsid.conf?

By: shixer

shixer — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 03:40:03 +0000

Just what I needed, , thanks!

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:46:00 +0000

This worked like a charm for me. Thank you very much.
Ubuntu 9.04, 2.6.28-11-server

By: Ilia umudumov

Ilia umudumov — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:04:58 +0000

I do olready everything end it’s work fine I have some problems with isci enterprise tool but what is my #1 problem after restart I lost my partitions how I can correct this problem?

By: D.Sain

D.Sain — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:35:58 +0000

I should say, however this is the document I always go to for my Deb setups. Kudos to the author for saving us hours of work.

By: D.Sain

D.Sain — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:31:27 +0000

One step I’ve noticed with the Ubuntu machines I’ve setup is that the target isn’t connected automatically on restart of the service. To correct this I’ve edited the target’s defaults file (/etc/iscsi/nodes/iqn*.sometargetname/ipaddress,node,1/default). In here I’ve changed node.conn[0].startup to automatic.

This can also be setup with:
./iscsiadm -m node -T iqn.2005-03.com.max -p 192.168.0.4:3260 \
-o update -n node.conn[0].startup -v automatic
however sometimes I get an error (-5) with this although it in the docs at open-iscsi.org. Sometimes it works. If not, edit the file.

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 29 May 2009 16:11:30 +0000

A nice guide. Thanks. :)

By: EE

EE — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:11:07 +0000

iscsi works perfectly with amd64 on debian. rgr’s message above caused me a couple of hours of wasted time!

By: Chris Kehayias

Chris Kehayias — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:11:56 +0000

I am having issues after every restart where the open-iscsi isn’t starting up correctly. It is fixable by issuing /etc/init.d/open-iscsi restart, but that really isn’t a great solution. Any suggestions?