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

[James C. McPherson]

On 17/11/11 08:17 AM, Jason J. W. Williams wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Bill Sommerfeld<sommerfeld at alum.mit.edu>wrote:
>
>> On 11/16/11 13:27, James C. McPherson wrote:
>>> (and apart from "I don't understand
>>> it therefore it must be bad" I don't know why you really would)
>>
>> I don't like mpxio disk names -- they make me work too hard and create
>> fear of
>> doing the wrong thing.
>>
>
>   The interesting thing is that turning off MPXIO on these SAS controllers
> allows you to see the channel per drive (cX), but the target name is still
> a WWN instead of the short integer I've seen on older SAS LSIs.

... that's because it's a gen2 controller and that's how it
is designed to report info. SAS devices show their SAS addresses,
and SATA devices report a pseudo-SAS address.


James C. McPherson
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