[OpenIndiana-discuss] 3x LSI 9211-8i controllers + direct attach backplane -- appear as on controller

[James C. McPherson]

On 17/11/11 06:57 AM, Jason J. W. Williams wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 1:42 PM, Rich<rercola at acm.jhu.edu>  wrote:
>
>> That is indeed the expected behavior, speaking as someone with many
>> 92xx controllers in Supermicro machines with mpxio enabled. :)
>
>
> So with mpxio off, the disks now appear on separate controllers. However,
> like the cfgadm -a output, each disk appears to be on it's own controller.
> Does each SAS channel on the SFF connector show up as it's own channel
> (e.g. cX) ? Trying to figure out how to logically map the drives back to
> common controllers if that's the case. Guess I could just go off serial #.

With the iport mappings as reported by prtconf -v you can work
out which PHY each disk is connected to.


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