[dm-devel] /dev/sdaa /dev/sdab ... not recognized as valid paths?
Hannes Reinecke
hare at suse.de
Wed Jan 14 07:33:38 UTC 2009
Hi Sebastian,
Sebastian Reitenbach wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I do present 8 luns to the cluster. For each lun there are 4 ways through the
> SAN that can be used. Therefore I have devices like /dev/sdaa /dev/sdab and
> so on. The output of multipath -ll shows some disks with 4 paths, some with
> three, some only with two. In the output of multipath -ll only disks with
> three letters are shown e.g. /dev/sda.
> when I run e.g. /sbin/scsi_id -g -u -s /block/sdaa, then it outputs one of the
> configured ID's that I already have in /etc/multipath.conf.
>
> How can I add these disks to the multipath failover?
>
> I'm on SLES10 sp2.
>
Have you enabled udev?
No, it's not on by default. Don't ask.
Cheers,
Hannes
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