HSG80 and qlogic cards

Hi,
just installed Suse enterprise 9 and installed the qlogic drivers.

All is sweet, except the failover doesn't actually work - it gives scsi
errors and crashes the mounted file system.

I have two qlogic QLA2340 cards in a proliant server.
Each HBA goes to an HP Switch nad onto the HSG80 controller, which is
running 8.7f software.

Before I scream out loud, can anyone point me at a solution.

Should I be able to use the 2.6 kernal built in multipath stuff to
achieve this - if so - how?

Many thanks
Martin

On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Martin Barrett wrote:

Each HBA goes to an HP Switch nad onto the HSG80 controller, which is running
8.7f software.


What does SHOW THIS FULL on the HSG say?
Transparent or multibus failover?

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Lord, protect me from those to whom you speak directly
perl -e '#this program inspired by LookWAYup;print("hello world\n");'

It shows multibus

P. Thompson wrote:
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Martin Barrett wrote:

Each HBA goes to an HP Switch nad onto the HSG80 controller, which is
running 8.7f software.


What does SHOW THIS FULL on the HSG say?
Transparent or multibus failover?

---
Lord, protect me from those to whom you speak directly
perl -e '#this program inspired by LookWAYup;print("hello world\n");'

"Martin Barrett" skrev i meddelandet
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Hi,
just installed Suse enterprise 9 and installed the qlogic drivers.

All is sweet, except the failover doesn't actually work - it gives scsi
errors and crashes the mounted file system.

I have two qlogic QLA2340 cards in a proliant server.
Each HBA goes to an HP Switch nad onto the HSG80 controller, which is
running 8.7f software.

Before I scream out loud, can anyone point me at a solution.

Should I be able to use the 2.6 kernal built in multipath stuff to achieve
this - if so - how?

Many thanks
Martin

As far as I can tell, multipath failover is not supported in this
configuration. Only storage systems EVA, MSA, XP and VA are supported for
the native multi-path functionality.
Although Suse enterprise 9 is not specifically in the support matrix at
http://h200005.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/s.../c00062106.pdf
for Secure Path for Linux, it might work. I'm not a Linux guy. Please note
that the above mentioned softare, SecurePath, is licensed software and
cannot be freely used.

/charles