Hi Kent:
What the lsiutil does for me is clear the persistent mapping for all
of the drives on a card. I don't know of a way to disable the mapping
completely (but that does sound like a nice option). Since SUN is
reselling this card now (that is how I got my cards), I wonder if they
can put in a request to LSI to provide this enhancement?
Paul
Kent Watsen wrote:
>
> Hi Paul,
>
> Already in my LSI Configuration Utility I have an option to clear the
> persistent mapping for drives not present, but then the card resumes
> its normal persistent-mapping logic. What I really want is to disable
> to persistent mapping logic completely - is the `lsiutil` doing that
> for you?
>
> Thanks,
> Kent
>
>
>
> Paul Jochum wrote:
>> Hi Kent:
>>
>> I have run into the same problem before, and have worked with LSI and
>> SUN support to fix it. LSI calls this "persistant drive mapping",
>> and here is how to clear it
>>
>> 1) obtain the latest version of the program "lsiutil" from LSI. They
>> don't seem to have the Solaris versions on their website, but I got
>> it by email when entering a ticket into their support system. I know
>> that they have a version for Solaris x86 (and I believe a Sparc
>> version also). The version I currently have is: "LSI Logic MPT
>> Configuration Utility, Version 1.52, September 7, 2007"
>>
>> 2) Execute the lsiutil program on your target box.
>> a) first it will ask you to select which card to use (I have
>> multiple cards in my machine, don't know if it will ask if you only
>> have 1 card in your box)
>> b) then you need to select option 15 (it is a hidden option, not
>> shown on the menu)
>> c) then you select option 10 (Clear all persistant mappings)
>> d) then option 0 multiple times to get out of the program
>> e) I normally than reboot the box, and the next time it comes up,
>> the drives are back in order.
>> e) or (instead of rebooting) option 99, to reset the chip (causes
>> new mappings to be established), then option 8 (to verify lower
>> target IDs), then "devfsadm". After devfsadm completes, lsiutil
>> option 42 should display valid device names (in /dev/rdsk), and
>> "format" should find the devices so that you can label them.
>>
>> Hope this helps. I happened to need it last night again (I normally
>> have to run it after re-imaging a box, assuming that I don't want to
>> save the data that was on those drives).
>>
>> Paul Jochum
>>
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