Re: qlogic failover multipath

From: Mike Anderson (andmike@us.ibm.com)
Date: Fri Sep 06 2002 - 10:34:37 EST


Oktay Akbal [oktay.akbal@s-tec.de] wrote:
> Hello,
>
> we do have some Problems with some qlogic 2202f fibrechannel card.
> When trying to use failover via plugging out some cable or using
> qlogics sansurfer to set an alternate path, there seem to be no errors,
> but everything works extremly slow and does not recover.
>
> This was used with driver 6.0b23 as from suse kernel 2.4.18.
>
> When trying 6.1b2 or b5 the disks get recognized as multiple scsi-disks,
> is this wanted for use with md multipath personality ?
> Is there a way to enable previos behavior ?

You can edit the qla_settings.h file and set MPIO_SUPPORT to 1 or I
believe if you use the qla2x00src-v6.1b5-fo archive that this should
already be set to 1.

-Mike

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Michael Anderson
andmike@us.ibm.com

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