On Mon, 28 Apr 2008, Ed Wilts wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 8:28 AM, Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz AT lucidpixels DOT 
> com>
> wrote:
>
>> Anyone here use Emulex cards and RHEL5?  It seems to have persistent
>> binding on by default?
>
>
> The official recommendations are that persistent binding be turned on for
> tape drives.  This comes from both Symantec and SNIA.  The only exception
> that I'm aware of is Solaris 10.  This is certainly true of SSO environment
> and I think I recall that you're using SSO.
>
> http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/256261.htm
>
> In any case, persistent binding should never make things worse - it may not
> be required, but it shouldn't hurt to have it on.
>
> Around here, we've made a decision to not use Emulex HBAs in any
> Linux/Solaris environment and to also purchase only Qlogic HBAs on all
> Windows systems going forward.  It's just easier...
>
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Not using SSO here but agree with the QLogic comment.
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