[dm-devel] Sun StorageTek 2530 and dm?

Chandra Seetharaman sekharan at us.ibm.com
Mon Aug 24 23:18:15 UTC 2009


On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 01:09 +0200, Jakov Sosic wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 18:58:24 -0400 (EDT)
> Charlie Brady <charlieb-dm-devel at budge.apana.org.au> wrote:
> 
> > Chandra says that the patch won't help you. Perhaps he can clarify.
> > My understanding is that if you configure multipath to use RDAC that
> > the driver does have to be patched so that the RDAC handler will be
> > used. I did find that to be the case with the StorageTek 2510
> > "LCMS100_I").
> > 
> > My understanding also is that RDAC is superior, so RDAC hander
> > support is desirable.
> 
> Is it enough to just add a new line to the list of the devices? For
> example:

yup. But, I mentioned earlier, this _won't_ solve the problem you are
seeing.

> 
> const struct scsi_dh_devlist rdac_dev_list[] = {
>         {"IBM", "1722"},
>         {"IBM", "1724"},
>         {"IBM", "1726"},
>         {"IBM", "1742"},
>         {"IBM", "1814"},
>         {"IBM", "1815"},
>         {"IBM", "1818"},
>         {"IBM", "3526"},
>         {"SGI", "TP9400"},
>         {"SGI", "TP9500"},
>         {"SGI", "IS"},
>         {"STK", "OPENstorage D280"},
>         {"SUN", "CSM200_R"},
>         {"SUN", "LCSM100_F"},
>         {"SUN", "LCSM100_I"},
>         {"SUN", "LCSM100_S"},
>         {NULL, NULL},
> };
> 
> ?
> 
> 
> > > Sorry, I'm easily flammable...
> > 
> > You would be wise to control your urges, if you wish people to help
> > you.
> 
> Well you misunderstood me both - I was just bashing around, and nothing
> was said at neither yours neither his account. It was just because this
> project I'm working on is taking so so so long :( This is like 10th
> problem I've encountered that is out of my order, and the amount of
> user-hours has already 3-4x exceeded the amount of money project
> brings :( So I'm really really... angry :-/
> 
> 




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