Starting out in iSCSI - recovery questions / options from target vanishing...

[Daniel Braniss]

> 
> 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

Hi karl,
	what version of iscsi_initiator are you using?
if it's not 2.2.x then get it from:
	ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/users/danny/freebsd/iscsi-2.2.3.tar.gz