Hi Bob,

Sorry I have not had a lot of spare time lately...

So the LSI-sourced arrays have bits in the inquiry data that tells the host 
whether or not the path that the inquiry is being handled on is a preferred or 
secondary path...

When a path is brought online (or back online after going away), MPxIO is 
supposed to use that information to know whether or not to attempt to failback 
the LUN or not..

If you can collect the support data via CAM, I can take a look at your 
configuration...but basically it will likely come down to:
1) If the preferred owner of a LUN is not what you expected...which I assume 
you checked already...

2) A timing issue that is either causing the controller to not set the correct 
bit during re-discovery

or

3) A timing or load related issue that is causing the host to "drop the ball" 
during re-discovery


BTW, The Wide-port message you see when you reset a controller is likely the 
surviving controller noticing that it lost one of its back-end SAS channels 
until the other controller comes back...

-Joel
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