Just a follow up... All 20 drives (and a spare) have been formatted to 512-byte, and everything is working.
Now to figure out how to use mdadm with multipath support ;)
Thanks again for all your help.
Rhino.
Has anyone successfully used SeaTools to change the sector format ? With my Emulex 8000 on Windows XP, I received an 'HBA not detected' or something of the sort. ScsiTools worked fine though :(
Since this is a 10-day trial, and I expect to have a DPE in the future.... Will the DPE (or Navisphere) convert the disks back to EMC 520-byte sector format ?
Unfortunately I've got copper FC-AL on the DAE, and optical on the HBA :(
Going to try Seatools Enterprise from a Windows XP box to see if that makes any difference.
Have requested the demo. Any reason Seatools isn't working ?
Would you happen to have the non-EMC f/w for the drive, and I can try that route while waiting for the demo key?
Perhaps a silly question, but do/should I need to update the 36GB drive with non-EMC firmware ?
/dev/sg9
Vendor = SEAGATE
Product = ST336704 CLAR36
Thanks in advance.
Okay... definately have an issue here. Still at 0% :(
Will check back in the morning.
Anyone know if there are linux Emulex drives on the Knoppix distributions ?
Rhino
Not what I'd expect from low-level formatting a drive. Disk doesn't appear to be constantly writing, but I can't be sure.
Status reported by Seatools is still 0%.
From the Brocade name server, I'm seeing 10 disks presenting themselves via 2 ports. Both sides of the DAE are connected to their respective copper gbic.
On the host side, it appears I'm seeing both disks. Not sure if there's a linux-world DMP solution to handle this once I get the disks...
Have grabbed Seatools (Enterprise) and am running the following:
./st -B 512 /dev/sg16 (one of the disks). Not much activity on the Brocade and I'm still at 0%.
sh-3.00# ./st -B 512 /dev/sg16
WARNING!!! Changing blocksize will ERASE all data on drive /dev/sg16
Enter Y to change...
Hi folks,
Have a DAE connected to a Brocade via db-9 copper gbics. Dual-paths are visible to my Linux host, however ignores them since the drives have 520-byte sector size. I need to change the sector formatting (possibly even firmware on the drives), but am not sure how to proceed.
Debian...
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Either way, what image would I need to request. Had seen reference to 'T' versions before, if IPSEC was...
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