This is the patch that EMC posted in the redhat bugzilla #231545, to deal with their new Clariion firmware that supports ALUA mode. It simply allows multipath to continue running with in the way in currently does. -Ben
diff -urpN a/libcheckers/emc_clariion.c b/libcheckers/emc_clariion.c --- a/libcheckers/emc_clariion.c 2006-11-27 17:16:40.000000000 -0600 +++ b/libcheckers/emc_clariion.c 2007-04-26 15:08:22.000000000 -0500 @@ -129,8 +129,12 @@ int emc_clariion(struct checker * c) if ( /* Effective initiator type */ sense_buffer[27] != 0x03 - /* Failover mode should be set to 1 */ - || (sense_buffer[28] & 0x07) != 0x04 + /* + * Failover mode should be set to 1 (PNR failover mode) + * or 4 (ALUA failover mode). + */ + || (((sense_buffer[28] & 0x07) != 0x04) && + ((sense_buffer[28] & 0x07) != 0x06)) /* Arraycommpath should be set to 1 */ || (sense_buffer[30] & 0x04) != 0x04) { MSG(c, "emc_clariion_checker: Path not correctly configured " diff -urpN a/path_priority/pp_emc/pp_emc.c b/path_priority/pp_emc/pp_emc.c --- a/path_priority/pp_emc/pp_emc.c 2006-02-02 19:54:58.000000000 -0600 +++ b/path_priority/pp_emc/pp_emc.c 2007-04-26 15:08:22.000000000 -0500 @@ -60,8 +60,12 @@ int emc_clariion_prio(const char *dev) if ( /* Effective initiator type */ sense_buffer[27] != 0x03 - /* Failover mode should be set to 1 */ - || (sense_buffer[28] & 0x07) != 0x04 + /* + * Failover mode should be set to 1 (PNR failover mode) + * or 4 (ALUA failover mode). + */ + || (((sense_buffer[28] & 0x07) != 0x04) && + ((sense_buffer[28] & 0x07) != 0x06)) /* Arraycommpath should be set to 1 */ || (sense_buffer[30] & 0x04) != 0x04) { fprintf(stderr, "Path not correctly configured for failover");
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