On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 09:26 -0500, Chris Penney wrote: > Hi, > > I'm not sure if this is the right list so apologies in advance if I'm > in the wrong spot. The search tool for this list doesn't seem to work > either. > > I have an Intel system with dual Qlogic HBAs (2340s) that talk to an > STK D280 disk array (I see the generic multipath.conf lists a D280 as > a device in the config file). I'm using SLES 9 SP1 w/ multipath-tools > 0.3.6-0.3. > > They way the system is setup, hba1 talks to the A controller of the > D280 and hba2 talks to the B controller (they are on seperate sans). > The box has four luns, two are active on port A and two are active on > port B. When I let multipath do it's thing it wants to use port B for > everything and that triggers a fail over of the A luns to port B. > > If I do the dmsetup commands by hand I can get what I want, but is > there a way to do this automatically? The thought of having a self > made hack init script to do this seems highly suspect. > Hello, the priority framework is here to help . You need a priority helper to hand a higher priority to the active paths. I don't know if someone already developped such a prioritizer for your hardware. Hope it helps enough to get you a step forward. Regards, -- christophe varoqui <christophe.varoqui@xxxxxxx>