What you say makes sense, however, as I mentioned, my experience with
HDS modular arrays tells me he should be seeing all the disk paths
properly from the format command (no "unknown" devices).

Granted, I haven't specifically used the WMS100, but the AMS models and
Thunder 9500 series behave this way.

Paul


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-vx-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu 
> [mailto:veritas-vx-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf 
> Of Darren Dunham
> Sent: September 5, 2007 11:05 AM
> To: Veritas-vx AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-vx] Drive type unknown Solaris 10
> 
> 
> > So....all this to say that if the disks are showing up as "unknown",
> > then this must be a specific "obscurity" laid over the 
> disks by VxVM,
> > since the HDS array will advertise the disk properly via 
> ALL available
> > paths.
> 
> That would be unexpected.  Unlike powerpath which inserts itself
> underneath the disk driver so that the OS view is of the 
> virtual object,
> VxDMP/VxVM stays on top, so that they're not visible to raw 
> disk access
> (like 'format' uses).  
> 
> Unless this is very different from the storage setups that I've used,
> whatever is going on with 'format' is happening independently of the
> VxVM installation/configuration.
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