Instead of devfsadm, try your luck with 'cfgadm -c configure  
<controller>'

Verify with 'cfgadm -al'

/dale


On Nov 26, 2008, at 12:30 PM, Sean Alderman wrote:

> Greetings,
>
>  I'm curious if anyone might have a plausible explanation to some  
> strange behaviors I see between various Solaris 10 systems running  
> on Sun X64 hardware.
>
>  We have a couple of EMC Symmetrix and Clariion SANs, and 20 or so  
> Sun Fire X4200 and X4600 servers.  They all run Solaris 10, most of  
> them are also running Sun Cluster 3.2.  I believe they all have Sun  
> branded emulex HBA's as well, and we are using PowerPath (for  
> reasons I am unaware of).
>
>  In my experience, when adding new LUNs to these machines, the  
> X4200s (probably a mix of M2's and not) seem to be very capable of  
> picking up the new LUNs using devfsadm and powermt config.  The  
> X4600s (definitely not M2's) do not seem to be able to discover new  
> LUNs and require the old reconfig reboot in order to pickup the new  
> LUNs.  Our other Admins have reported that the X4200s also tend to  
> discover nothing new, but I have not personally witnessed this.  I  
> have not seen any messages in /var/adm/messages that would indicate  
> failure or error while trying to discover the new devices.  Devfsadm  
> -v shows no output when it doesn't find anything new.
>
>  Can anyone offer ideas as to why this seems to be the case?  Our  
> current theory has us wondering about HBA firmware levels between  
> the servers.
>
> Thanks.
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