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Martin Barrett

2005-04-13, 5:46 pm

Hi,
just installed Suse enterprise 9 and installed the qlogic drivers.

All is sweet, except the failover doesn't actually work - it gives scsi
errors and crashes the mounted file system.

I have two qlogic QLA2340 cards in a proliant server.
Each HBA goes to an HP Switch nad onto the HSG80 controller, which is
running 8.7f software.

Before I scream out loud, can anyone point me at a solution.

Should I be able to use the 2.6 kernal built in multipath stuff to
achieve this - if so - how?

Many thanks
Martin
P. Thompson

2005-04-13, 8:45 pm

On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Martin Barrett wrote:

> Each HBA goes to an HP Switch nad onto the HSG80 controller, which is running
> 8.7f software.
>


What does SHOW THIS FULL on the HSG say?
Transparent or multibus failover?

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Martin Barrett

2005-04-18, 5:46 pm

It shows multibus

P. Thompson wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Martin Barrett wrote:
>
>
> What does SHOW THIS FULL on the HSG say?
> Transparent or multibus failover?
>
> ---
> Lord, protect me from those to whom you speak directly
> PERL -e '#this program inspired by LookWAYup;print("hello world\n");'



Charles Morrall

2005-04-18, 5:46 pm


"Martin Barrett" <martin.barrett@itv.com> skrev i meddelandet
news:3c5136F64ri0gU1@individual.net...
> Hi,
> just installed Suse enterprise 9 and installed the qlogic drivers.
>
> All is sweet, except the failover doesn't actually work - it gives scsi
> errors and crashes the mounted file system.
>
> I have two qlogic QLA2340 cards in a proliant server.
> Each HBA goes to an HP Switch nad onto the HSG80 controller, which is
> running 8.7f software.
>
> Before I scream out loud, can anyone point me at a solution.
>
> Should I be able to use the 2.6 kernal built in multipath stuff to achieve
> this - if so - how?
>
> Many thanks
> Martin


As far as I can tell, multipath failover is not supported in this
configuration. Only storage systems EVA, MSA, XP and VA are supported for
the native multi-path functionality.
Although Suse enterprise 9 is not specifically in the support matrix at
http://h200005.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/...6/c00062106.pdf
for Secure Path for Linux, it might work. I'm not a Linux guy. Please note
that the above mentioned softare, SecurePath, is licensed software and
cannot be freely used.

/charles


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