[OpenIndiana-discuss] Multiple devices appearing as one behind SAS expander

Jason Matthews jason at broken.net
Fri Mar 22 00:37:37 UTC 2013



neat problem. 
generally the wwn is stamped on the drive. are they all marked with the same wwn?

who makes the drives? ocz? sandisk?

Sent from Jasons' hand held

On Mar 21, 2013, at 6:13 AM, "Schweiss, Chip" <chip at innovates.com> wrote:

> I have four 480GB SSDs I'm trying to re-add to my pool as L2ARC.   They
> were all connected internally on the server, but now I have a dedicated SAS
> JBOD for the 2 1/2 SSDs in the system.   The JBOD is a SuperMicro 2U with
> LSI SAS2X36 expander.
> 
> The SSDs are are all showing up as a single device: c11t0000120000000000d0s0
> 
> They are incorrectly identified as the same device by the multipathadm:
> 
> mutipathadm list lu:
> 
>        /dev/rdsk/c11t0000120000000000d0s2
>                Total Path Count: 4
>                Operational Path Count: 4
> 
> Not sure where napp-it gets its information for it's controller view but
> this is how it reports them:
> 
> c14::w5003048001d91b4e,0   connected   configured   unknown   Client
> Device: /dev/dsk/c11t0000120000000000d0s0(sd75) disk-path n /devices/pci at 0
> ,0/pci8086,340e at 7/pci1000,30d0 at 0/iport at f000:scsi::w5003048001d91b4e,0
> c14::w5003048001d91b4f,0   connected   configured   unknown   Client
> Device: /dev/dsk/c11t0000120000000000d0s0(sd75) disk-path n /devices/pci at 0
> ,0/pci8086,340e at 7/pci1000,30d0 at 0/iport at f000:scsi::w5003048001d91b4f,0
> c14::w5003048001d91b5a,0   connected   configured   unknown   Client
> Device: /dev/dsk/c11t0000120000000000d0s0(sd75) disk-path n /devices/pci at 0
> ,0/pci8086,340e at 7/pci1000,30d0 at 0/iport at f000:scsi::w5003048001d91b5a,0
> c14::w5003048001d91b5b,0   connected   configured   unknown   Client
> Device: /dev/dsk/c11t0000120000000000d0s0(sd75) disk-path n /devices/pci at 0
> ,0/pci8086,340e at 7/pci1000,30d0 at 0/iport at f000:scsi::w5003048001d91b5b,0
> 
> How do I break this and get OI to see these as 4 independent devices?
> 
> Thank you,
> -Chip
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