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From: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: Sun StorageTek 2530 and dm?
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 13:24:57 -0700
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Have you verified there is no physical issues with the path ?

On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 20:59 +0200, Jakov Sosic wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 11:48:36 -0700
> Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> > This is the expected behavior, when IOs on the active path fails, the
> > hardware handler will activate the passive path and make it active and
> > start sending IOs thru that newly activated path.
> > 
> > Send MODE_SELECT is how the hardware handler makes the passive path
> > active. 
> 
> Yes, I am aware of the multipathing and switching in case of failure -
> but what is bugging me is why is it happening so often? Or can I be
> more precise - why is it happening CONSTANTLY? 
> 
> 
>