-----Original Message----- From: dm-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:dm-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Hannes Reinecke Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 2:21 AM To: device-mapper development Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] [libmultipath] Update hardware table forHPHSV200 Reilly, Stephen (MRO) wrote: > The product name does change if the firmware uses 'START_STOP_UNIT' or > ALUA... so why are we adding the revision? > Ah, that's news to me. How does the product name change? >> The firmware will change the name My contacts at HP Boeblingen said that the revision number indicated the behaviour. What are the names of the fw using START_STOP_UNIT? >> HSV100 and HSV110 EVA3000/5000 And what are those for using ALUA? >> HSV101, HSV111, HSV200 and HSV210 EVA 3000/5000 EVA4000/6000/8000 And irrespective of this I think matching by revision is still a valid addition to the hardware table mechanism. >> However I would not use it determine the START_STOP_UNIT or ALUA implementation Cheers, Hannes -- Dr. Hannes Reinecke hare@xxxxxxx SuSE Linux Products GmbH S390 & zSeries Maxfeldstraße 5 +49 911 74053 688 90409 Nürnberg http://www.suse.de -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel