That is indeed the expected behavior, speaking as someone with many 92xx controllers in Supermicro machines with mpxio enabled. :)
- Rich On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 3:40 PM, Bill Sommerfeld <sommerf...@alum.mit.edu> wrote: > On 11/16/11 12:30, Jason J. W. Williams wrote: >> I just had a new server released to me using a SuperMicro SC216A (direct >> attach backplane) chassis and 3x 9211-8i controllers loaded with 11.0 IT >> firmware. I've confirmed the firmware is correct, what is strange is that >> all of the drives are showing as being on one controller (c2) though the >> LSI BIOS clearly shows the drives scattered across the three controllers: >> >> https://gist.github.com/c9b15104cbaebc640d6d >> >> Any insight on what's going would be very appreciated. > > This looks like multipathing (mpxio); if it's enabled, it attaches all disks > to a virtual controller, with target names derived from the WWN of the > targets. > > under the covers, these get mapped to whichever physical controller(s) have a > path to the disk. I've only used this with fiberchannel but I believe it's > also available with SAS. > > if you don't actually have multiple paths to each disk you can generally turn > it off and have small-integer target numbers in the disk names. > > - Bill > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
