Le lun 14/06/2004 �0:42, Guilherme Barros a �it : > is the qlogic failover setup in their driver aware of having to start > controllers showing ghost paths if the master one fails? > > let me try that one again. say controller A is showing actual paths > (sda, sdc), and controller B is showing ghost paths (sdb, sdd). say > controller A dies... does the qlogic driver with failover know that it > needs to activate controller B ? I didn't last time I tried, 2 years ago. Anyway this method is not the way to go. You have only two choices here for real multipath handling : 1) You need commercial support, and you don't mind tainting your kernel, then SecurePath is the way to go 2) You are satisfied with community support, then lk2.6 & device-mapper multipath target & multipath-tools are the way to go. Note that you also inherit the risks of being an early adopter. Other solutions just don't fit the availability and care-free criteria. regards, cvaroqui