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I have a centos 5.3 dell machine with emulex card. When I do : lsmod, I can see the lpfc module loaded. So, I assume my emulex card is working. Now I am not able to see the attached storage in dmesg and neither by fdisk -l. How do i trouble shoot to actually load the SAN storage allocated by my administrator.
do i need any extra tools to actually see the san storage zone in my machine?
I also tried to re-load the lpfc module and here is what i see in dmesg
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Emulex LightPulse Fibre Channel SCSI driver 8.2.0.33.3p
Copyright(c) 2004-2008 Emulex. All rights reserved.
PCI: Enabling device 0000:04:0c.0 (0118 -> 011a)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:04:0c.0[A] -> GSI 39 (level, low) -> IRQ 21
scsi4 : on PCI bus 04 device 60 irq 21
lpfc 0000:04:0c.0: 0:1303 Link Up Event x1 received Data: x1 xf7 x8 x0 x0 x0 0
[root@cvtst2 etc]#
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Thanks
Paras.
Last edited by pradhanparas; 06-04-2009 at 05:20 PM.
It may not be zoned correctly, you might need to talk to your San admin and find out how many devices you should be seeing. Dont forget if you have 2 fibre cards you will see each device twice.
Also you might need to re-scan the scsi devices in order to find the disks.
Check with your SAN admin to see if they can see the server login to the switch ?
Also their might be different disk configuration options for solaris and linux on the san which might also be why the server cannot see the disks (lun masking I think its called) Not sure just a few thoughts to try.
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