On 2/26/11 7:43 PM, "Bill Sommerfeld" <sommerf...@hamachi.org> wrote:
>On your system, c12 is the mpxio virtual controller; any disk which is
>potentially multipath-able (and that includes the SAS drives) will
>appear as a child of the virtual controller (rather than appear as the
>child of two or more different physical controllers).
Hmm... That makes sense, except that my drives are all SATA because I'm
cheap^H^H^H fiscally conservative. :^)
'stmsboot -L' displayed no mappings, but I went ahead and tried stmsboot
-d to disable multipathing; after reboot instead of seeing nine disks on a
single controller I now see ten different controllers (in a machine that
has four PCI controllers and one motherboard controller):
locadmin@bigdawg2:~# format
Searching for disks...done
AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
0. c10t2d0 <DEFAULT cyl 9965 alt 2 hd 224 sec 56>
/pci@0,0/pci8086,340a@3/pci1000,72@0/iport@4/disk@p2,0
1. c13t5000CCA222DF92A0d0 <DEFAULT cyl 60798 alt 2 hd 255 sec 252>
/pci@0,0/pci8086,340a@3/pci1000,72@0/iport@10/disk@w5000cca222df92a0,0
2. c14t5000CCA222DF8FBEd0 <DEFAULT cyl 60798 alt 2 hd 255 sec 252>
/pci@0,0/pci8086,340e@7/pci1000,3020@0/iport@1/disk@w5000cca222df8fbe,0
3. c15t5000CCA222E006B6d0 <DEFAULT cyl 60798 alt 2 hd 255 sec 252>
/pci@0,0/pci8086,340a@3/pci1000,72@0/iport@8/disk@w5000cca222e006b6,0
4. c16t5000CCA222DDD7BAd0 <DEFAULT cyl 60798 alt 2 hd 255 sec 252>
/pci@0,0/pci8086,340c@5/pci1000,3020@0/iport@2/disk@w5000cca222ddd7ba,0
5. c17t5000CCA222DF3CECd0 <DEFAULT cyl 60798 alt 2 hd 255 sec 252>
/pci@0,0/pci8086,340e@7/pci1000,3020@0/iport@20/disk@w5000cca222df3cec,0
6. c18t5000CCA222DEAFE6d0 <DEFAULT cyl 60798 alt 2 hd 255 sec 252>
/pci@0,0/pci8086,340e@7/pci1000,3020@0/iport@2/disk@w5000cca222deafe6,0
7. c19t5000CCA222E0A3DEd0 <DEFAULT cyl 60798 alt 2 hd 255 sec 252>
/pci@0,0/pci8086,340e@7/pci1000,3020@0/iport@4/disk@w5000cca222e0a3de,0
8. c20t5000CCA222E046B7d0 <DEFAULT cyl 60798 alt 2 hd 255 sec 252>
/pci@0,0/pci8086,340e@7/pci1000,3020@0/iport@8/disk@w5000cca222e046b7,0
9. c21t5000CCA222E0533Fd0 <DEFAULT cyl 60798 alt 2 hd 255 sec 252>
/pci@0,0/pci8086,340a@3/pci1000,72@0/iport@20/disk@w5000cca222e0533f,0
So now I'm more baffled than I started. Any other suggestions will be
gratefully accepted...
--
Dave Pooser, ACSA
Manager of Information Services
Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com
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