We too are running RH6 and 5 Linux servers with 1120 and 1130 drives.
We have only have one path to our drives. As far as we can tell the other
paths are for redundancy only. The Lin_tape drivers and path process will
only let you define/use one at a time.
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On May 23, 2014 2:52 PM, "Lee, Gary" <GLEE AT bsu DOT edu> wrote:
> Ok, unloading multipath.
> How do I deal with the issue of multiple paths to each drive?
> I have four fc ports all connected to the san.
>
> Sorry to appear dense, just not familiar with fiberchanel.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf
> Of
> Cameron Hanover
> Sent: Friday, May 23, 2014 2:24 PM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] multipathing ts1120s under RHEL6
>
> To expand on it slightly, add this option for modprobe once lin_tape is
> isntalled:
> options lin_tape alternate_pathing=1
>
>
> http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tsminfo/v6/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.itsm.srv.doc%2Fc_multipath_io_support_unix.html
>
> -
> Cameron Hanover
> chanover AT umich DOT edu
>
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> holy the motive.
> --Robert A. Heinlein
>
> On May 23, 2014, at 1:39 PM, Michael Prix <mp AT RS6000.DARKTECH DOT ORG>
> wrote:
>
> > Gary,
> >
> > dm-multipath is for diskdrives. You want to use lin_tape for the
> > handling of the FC-attachment of the tape drives.
> >
> > --
> > Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Kind regards
> >
> > Michael Prix
> >
> > On 05/22/2014 09:14 PM, Lee, Gary wrote:
> >> I am now attempting to share libraries containing IBM ts1120 drives
> between two tsm servers on HP hardware running RHEL 6.
> >>
> >> It appears that I will need to use the dm-multipath system to manage
> the various fc paths to all the drives.
> >>
> >> Got dm-multipath installed, but now trying to configure so it will see
> the drives.
> >> Has anyone done this before and could you point me to some information?
> >> I have the redhat manual for configuring dm-multipath. I am fairly new
> to FC so some help is appreciated.
> >> The redhat book does not even mention tape, and can't find info on my
> drives in the places it mentions to look.
> >>
> >> Thanks for any and all help.
>
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