Failover support for QLogic HBAs in RHEL 4?

[Troy Knabe]

Try Sun's Traffic Manager for RHEL

http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/hardware/docs/Software/Storage_Software/Sun_StorEdge_Traffic_Manager/index.html

-Troy

Sandor W. Sklar wrote:
> 
> I have several Sun X4100 systems (X86_64) running RHEL 4 update 4, with 
> kernel 2.6.9-42.0.2.ELsmp.  These systems each have two QLogic QLA200-E 
> Fibre Channel HBAs installed.  I am using the driver kernel module that 
> comes with the kernel RPM.
> 
>  From everything that I've been able to read, the default behavior of 
> the the driver is to have "failover" enabled.  Further, I should be able 
> to force this behavior by setting the option "pts=1 ql2xfailover=1".
> 
> Unfortunately, this isn't working.  modinfo on the qla2xxx driver does 
> not show the ql2xfailover as an available parameter.
> 
> This is the version of the module I have:
> 
> filename:       
> /lib/modules/2.6.9-42.0.2.ELsmp/kernel/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla2xxx.ko
> version:        8.01.04-d7 1036BB22AA28C8D7180B7E1
> 
> Am I doing something wrong, or has failover support been disabled in 
> this module for some reason?
> 
> Thanks,
> -- Sandy
> 
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