Allow the SAN retry count to be configured via the ${san-retry}
setting, defaulting to the current value of 10 retries if not
specified.
Note that setting a retry count of zero is inadvisable, since iSCSI
targets in particular will often report spurious errors such as "power
on occurred" for the first few commands.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Add basic support for multipath block devices. The "sanboot" and
"sanhook" commands now accept a list of SAN URIs. We open all URIs
concurrently. The first connection to become available for issuing
block device commands is marked as the active path and used for all
subsequent commands; all other connections are then closed. Whenever
the active path fails, we reopen all URIs and repeat the process.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
The SCSI layer currently implements a retry loop in order to retry
commands that fail due to spurious "error" conditions such as "power
on occurred". Move this retry loop to the generic SAN device layer:
this allow for retries due to other transient error conditions such as
an iSCSI target having dropped the connection due to inactivity.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
The concept of the SAN drive number is meaningful only in a BIOS
environment, where it represents the INT13 drive number (0x80 for the
first hard disk). We retain this concept in a UEFI environment to
allow for a simple way for iPXE commands to refer to SAN drives.
Centralise the concept of the default drive number, since it is shared
between all supported environments.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Michael Brown