<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Thanks mate. I'll dig into the doc. Rgds, Hantzley Chris Osicki wrote: <blockquote cite="mid20050530095253.24aa8e53@mwdsp001" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Hi Hantzley You should read PowerPath Release Notes (P/N 300-001-969) or at least it's page 15 ;-) "EMC pseudeo devices are not supported with LVM. Instead, native SCSI devices must be used..." I think EMC messed up with device names as seeen in /proc/devices under "Block devices" and LVM doesn't recognize them. They used to be called emcpower in older versions of PP I think, now they are "emcp". Regards, Chris On Fri, 27 May 2005 11:11:40 +0400 Hantzley Tauckoor <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:hantzley@telecomplus.net"><hantzley@telecomplus.net></a> wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Hi, I have a CX300 Clariion and a x445 IBM (4 processors and 4GB RAM) server equipped with 2 Emulex FibreChannel cards which are directly connected to the cx300's controllers. My software config is as follows: Redhat ES 3.0 with Kernel 2.4.21-20.ELsmp PowerPath 4.3.1 LPFC 2.4 driver kit 7.2.4-1 lvm-1.0.3-15 I created 2LUNs on the cx300, and therefore I can see 4 sd devices on linux (2 on one path and 2 on the other). After installing PowerPath, I am able to access the LUNs via /dev/emcpowera1 and /dev/emcpowerb1 respectively. But I cannot use LVM on these devices directly. However LVM works with /dev/sd* devices. I wish to use it with the PowerPath devices instead, so as to have dynamic multipathing. I also tried to install Veritas Volume Manager; no luck, the eval version was compiled for kernel.2.4.xx-Hugemem - which is not my present kernel. I have incompatibility problems because PowerPath 4.3.1 requires at kernel 2.4.21-15 or 2.4.21-20. Is there someone who had the same type of problem? Any tip on how to make LVM run with PowerPath devices? Thank you in advance for your replies. Rgds, Hantzley Tauckoor ---------------------------------------------------- Project Manager Telecom Plus Ltd <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.telecomplus.net">www.telecomplus.net</a> ---------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:linux-lvm@redhat.com">linux-lvm@redhat.com</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm</a> read the LVM HOW-TO at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/">http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/</a> </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:linux-lvm@redhat.com">linux-lvm@redhat.com</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm</a> read the LVM HOW-TO at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/">http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/</a> </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>