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Announcement: SCSITrace patches released for RHEL 6.

March 7th, 2011 Comments off

Just a quick update. New patches have been uploaded to the project site of the SCSI Bus Analyzer Module (SCSITrace) on Sourceforge.net. These patches are for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and cover the following kernels: 2.6.32-71.el6 and 2.6.32-71.18.1.el6 on x86 & AMD64/Intel64 architectures. You can download the files here.

The project is still in Beta status and more information can be found on our Wiki page dedicated to the project at http://wiki.petroskoutoupis.com/index.php5?title=SCSI_Trace.

Announcement: DrvAdm 10.09-3 Stable Release

January 5th, 2011 Comments off

I am just writing to announce the incremental release of my DrvAdm Linux 2.6 kernel (2.6.28 and above) storage administration utility. It is licensed under the GPL v3 and currently in version 10.09-3. This version addresses a corner case segmentation error which has only been seen on unsupported Linux platforms. Also addressed were typos found in the online help and manual page.

More can be read here: http://wiki.petroskoutoupis.com/index.php5?title=DrvAdm

Announcement: SCSI Bus Analyzer Module (scsitrace) 1.0 Beta Stable Release

December 23rd, 2010 Comments off

I am just writing to announce the official release of my SCSI Bus Analyzer Module (scsitrace) 1.0 Beta for the Linux 2.6 kernels. A patch has been released for the Linux 2.6.35.4 kerne

Announcement: DrvAdm 10.09-2 Stable Release

December 8th, 2010 Comments off

I am just writing to announce the incremental release of my DrvAdm Linux 2.6 kernel specific storage administration utility. It is licensed under the GPL v3 and currently in version 10.09-2, the utility provides the capabilities to:

  • add/remove/rescan for devices in the Linux 2.6 SCSI Subsystem
  • reset the SCSI host, target, bus or all
  • retrieve a list of all SCSI devices with detailed information
  • receive a list of all SCSI hosts with detailed information
  • view device partition tables, geometry / size
  • dynamically modify parameters such as queue depth to timeout
  • and even send Fibre Channel Loop Initialization Primitives (LIP) to specified hosts.

More can be read here: http://wiki.petroskoutoupis.com/index.php5?title=DrvAdm

New Tool: DrvAdm 10.09

September 5th, 2010 Comments off

I would like to announce a new disk management utility for Linux platforms. Specifically for the 2.6. 32+ kernels. It is called DrvAdm and is currently supported on Ubuntu Desktop/Server 10.04 and Red Hat ES 6 (to be released by end of 2010). Validation for Red Hat ES 6 was done on the second beta release.

You can read more about it on its wiki page or download it directly from its Sourceforge.net hosted project page. For the most part, DrvAdm supports the following features:

  • Dynamically add / remove / update devices in the SCSI subsystem
  • Reset the SCSI host, target, bus or all.
  • Retrieve a list of all SCSI devices with detailed information
  • Retrieve a list of all SCSI hosts with detailed information
  • View the device’s partition table
  • Retrieve the device’s geometry / size
  • Modify device parametets (i.e. queue_depth, timeout, etc.)
  • Send Loop Initialization Primitives (LIPs) to the Fibre Channel hosts