[OpenIndiana-discuss] FC HBA

[Richard Elling]

On Jul 25, 2013, at 3:21 PM, James Relph <james at themacplace.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi Karl,
> 
>> I think we need more information to be able to help.
>> Have you enabled mpxio?  Have a look at the stmsboot command.
> 
> mpxio is enabled.
> 
>> What kind of Qlogic card do you have. Oem or original Qlogic, and model.
>> In "old" Sun days you could buy Sun OEM Qlogic cards that used the QLC driver or from Qlogic that used the QLA driver.
>> So search for qla instead of qlc.
> 
> The cards are Qlogic QLE2562 cards, they actually work absolutely fine in terms of the arrays they're connected to show up absolutely fine in the system, and are 100% usable (all the different paths for the arrays show up for instance under format).  It's just that after adding the things required into scsi_vhci.conf, and running stmsboot -e, it doesn't actually use mpxio after a reboot.

Multipath negotiation is between the host and target, not the transport.
scsi_vhci.conf can be finicky, what changes did you make there?
 -- richard

> 
> The only thing that I wondered is whether the system is picking up a generic FC HBA driver rather than a specific Qlogic driver, and that's what's stopping the system using mpxio.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> James.
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