> >> With S10U4+patches, PCIe SAS card, I get:
> >
> > SAS ?! Can this be a problem ? AFAIK, fcinfo looks
> > specifically for FC HBA. (In fact it uses
> libHBAAPI,
> > which routes the actual call via /etc/hba.conf)
> > Odds are that your HBA does not provide a library
> > for libHBAAPI.

That is correct.  I'm assuming Cyril has a 2540.  He is seeing SAS/SATA drives 
only because that's what's on the back end.  If, however, you have a 2530 and 
are connecting to it via a SAS HBA (which obviously you would be), fcinfo will 
be of no help to you.

> We are trying to get MPxIO with SAS working with a
> PCIe based SAS  
> card.  I recently was told that if I have a PCIe
> based SAS card with  
> >4gb of memory then I can't use MPxIO.  I'm hoping
>  that we get that  
> ooner than later as it pretty much means I need to
> (why is FC less  
> than SAS for a 2530 anyways?) go with FC based
> controllers.    Just  
> wish that Sun could have been a little more upfront
> about the "special  
> situations" in which MPxIO+SAS wouldn't work.

I believe what you're referring to is this CR:

http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6597711

The problem has to do with potential data corruption on DMA that crosses the 
4GB boundary.  This CR puts a workaround in the mpt driver to ensure that the 
cards affected by this errata do not allocate DMA resources above 4GB.  If you 
are running a driver with this CR, you're fine, although obviously there could 
be performance degradation if you have a lot of physical memory.

I'm sorry I don't have an answer for the original question of how to find the 
LUN numbers.  I rarely have occasion to run with MPxIO enabled, and I'm not too 
familiar with mpathadm.  Hopefully somebody else can answer that.

David
 
 
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