This probably won't make you feel much better, but I messed with exactly the
same thing off and on for about a week, and finally gave up.  I saw
identical symptoms.  I'm hoping SP1 fixes it, too.  If it doesn't, I'll have
to dig deeper.

Scott Ledbetter
StorageTek

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From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Wiggins, Mark
Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 11:40 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: EVMS question for FCP device


I've been trying to get a multipath FCP device attach to my SLES9 instance
on z/VM 5.1. I feel as though I've followed the directions (Redbook 6344 -
Chap. 9, Multipath FCP on SuSE SLES9) but I end up getting either a "broken
pipe" error when trying to mount it from EVMSGUI and I get "wrong fs type,
bad option, bad superblock on /dev/evms/md/md0, or too many mounted file
systems" when I try to mount it on linux. Quickly, let me go through the
steps and see if anyone can see where I've went wrong.

ATT A210 to LINUX1 in VM (both are defined as TYPE=FCP).
ATT A310 to LINUX1 in VM

>From YAST, HARDWARE, ZFCP, ADD
    0.0.a210    WWPN1    LUN 502f
    0.0.a310    WWPN2    LUN 502f
    The WWPN's are different but the LUN's are the same. These are defined
correctly, because I've been able to use each path individual, just not as
multipath.

Then from EVMSGUI
    - add DOS segment manager to a210
    - select freespace object and create segment for a210
    - create region MD Multipath Region Manager and select a210 and a310
    - I skip the RAID0 part because I've only got 1 LUN
    - create compatability volume
    - Make filesystem (ReiserFS)
    - Of course I've "saved" after each step as directed
    - chkconfig evms.boot on

Actually, it will mount if I use EXT3 instead of ReiserFS, but I can only
get it to mount "read-only". With ReiserFS it won't mount at all. In my
searching I did notice suggestions of applying BD-Claim Patch, which sounds
like it might resolve my problem. In addition to that, is this possibly
fixed with SP1? I noticed a section in there stating "* Added patches for
OES to EVMS.", just wondering if that would help.


Mark Wiggins
University of Connecticut
Operating Systems Programmer
860-486-2792






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