From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hannes Reinecke Subject: Re: /dev/sdaa /dev/sdab ... not recognized as valid paths? Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 08:33:38 +0100 Message-ID: <496D9552.8080202@suse.de> References: <200901140738.03109.sebastia@l00-bugdead-prods.de> Reply-To: device-mapper development Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200901140738.03109.sebastia@l00-bugdead-prods.de> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: dm-devel-bounces@redhat.com Errors-To: dm-devel-bounces@redhat.com To: device-mapper development List-Id: dm-devel.ids Hi Sebastian, Sebastian Reitenbach wrote: > Hi, >=20 > I do present 8 luns to the cluster. For each lun there are 4 ways throu= gh the =20 > SAN that can be used. Therefore I have devices like /dev/sdaa /dev/sdab= and=20 > so on. The output of multipath -ll shows some disks with 4 paths, some = with=20 > three, some only with two. In the output of multipath -ll only disks wi= th=20 > three letters are shown e.g. /dev/sda.=20 > when I run e.g. /sbin/scsi_id -g -u -s /block/sdaa, then it outputs one= of the=20 > configured ID's that I already have in /etc/multipath.conf. >=20 > How can I add these disks to the multipath failover? >=20 > I'm on SLES10 sp2. >=20 Have you enabled udev? No, it's not on by default. Don't ask. Cheers, Hannes --=20 Dr. Hannes Reinecke zSeries & Storage hare@suse.de +49 911 74053 688 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 N=FCrnberg GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG N=FCrnberg)