Hi,

I am trying to setup persistent binding for the tape drives over the SAN, so 
that we don't have to reinvent the order of the drives when we remove/add 
drives to our SL500 library.

Current mcf file looks like:
/dev/samst/c3t500104F0007C4EACu0        50      s9      SunL500 on      
/etc/opt/SUNWsamfs/SunL500_cat
/dev/rmt/1cbn                           51      li      SunL500 on
/dev/rmt/4cbn                           52      li      SunL500 on
/dev/rmt/3cbn                           53      li      SunL500 on
/dev/rmt/2cbn                           54      li      SunL500 on
/dev/rmt/0cbn                           55      li      SunL500 on

Current /dev/rmt/? Points to following PWWN;
We see multiple here because we have redundant paths.   I cannot explain why 
the last drive is only seen three times as opposed to others.

1              st at w500104f0007c4eb6,0
10           st at w500104f0007c4eb6,0
15           st at w500104f0007c4eb6,0
5              st at w500104f0007c4eb6,0

0              st at w500104f0007c4eb9,0
14           st at w500104f0007c4eb9,0
4              st at w500104f0007c4eb9,0
9              st at w500104f0007c4eb9,0

13           st at w500104f0007c4ebc,0
18           st at w500104f0007c4ebc,0
3              st at w500104f0007c4ebc,0
8              st at w500104f0007c4ebc,0

12           st at w500104f0007c4ebf,0
17           st at w500104f0007c4ebf,0
2              st at w500104f0007c4ebf,0
7              st at w500104f0007c4ebf,0

11           st at w500104f0007c4ec5,0
16           st at w500104f0007c4ec5,0
6              st at w500104f0007c4ec5,0

I understand that the above /dev/rmt/# links to PWWN will change upon "rm 
/dev/rmt/*" and then running devfsadm.

My Confusion started when I was in the process of creating /etc/devlink.tab 
file.
Looking at the mcf file, I wanted "1cbn" to be the first drive recognized by 
the system. So added the following  line to devlink.tab file
type=ddi_byte:tape;addr=w500104f0007c4eb6,0;    rmt/0\M0
Then when I looked at the mcf file again, and wanted "4cbn" to be my second 
drive recognized by the system,  I got stuck looking that the above /dev/rmt/# 
<-> PWWN mapping.
Both 4cbn and 0cbn points to the same PWWN, as seen above. Does this mean the 
Drive 52 and drive 55 both are pointing to the same physical drives?

Can anybody please take a peek at this and tell me what could I be missing here?

Thank you for any feedback you can provide.
Amit


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