[illumos-Discuss] Finding WWN vs attachment

[McBofh]

On 15/04/11 04:47 AM, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I have asked about this on the OI list, but I guess I should try here
> as well
>
> I had an issue with timeouts with an LSI 6800/1068i controller. This
> seemed to be an issue with either the controller or the driver. With
> the new LSI 9200 controller, a new driver, mpt2, is used. This means
> that my former cxtxdx devices have turned into cxtWWNdx devices. With
> both disk chassises, one 2U and one 4U, both from SuperMicro, I can
> find no mapping whatsoever between physical slot and their WWN. For
> the WD drives, that's somewhat doable, since the drives are labelled
> with their respecive WWN, but for the Seagates and Hitatchis, it's a
> bit worse.
>
> So, back to square one, how the hell can I find a mapping between
> disk and slot? Some say this is supposed to work on Nexenta, with the
> same hardware, but has Nexenta released the code for this? Do they
> have to release the code, as would be the case with GPL? Will they
> release any code if asked?
>
> Btw, luxadm doesn't work on these chassises either...

Luxadm should have been eviscerated a looooong time ago

> Here's more info - output from prtpicl and fmtopo:
> http://pastebin.com/xtJ7R0TY
>
> Thanks in advance for any constructive input on this!


Output from fmtopo -V and prtconf -v would be more useful,
since then we could see the device tree properly.


McB