
CLARiiON “Ghost” LUN reported with the Emulex v7.1.14 and v7.3.2 drivers (PQB filter)
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Special Instructions
Host: scsi2 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 02
Vendor: DGC Model: RAID 5 Rev: 0207
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 04
Host: scsi2 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 03
Vendor: DGC Model: RAID 5 Rev: 0207
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 04
Host: scsi2 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 04
Vendor: DGC Model: RAID 5 Rev: 0207
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 04
Host: scsi2 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00
Vendor: DGC Model: Rev: 0207
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 04
Due to the existence of the “ghost” LUN, PowerPath failover does not
function properly and can result in an all paths down scenario. By
enabling the parameter, the driver is instructed to change the
peripheral qualifier bit from 1 to 3 for an INQUIRY response. As a
result, the SCSI mid-layer will handle the INQUIRY response
correctly and, subsequently, will enumerate the disks for each
initiator-target pair correctly.
This behavior has not occurred in Symmetrix environments and,
therefore, enabling the
lpfc_inq_pqb_filter parameter is not
required in said environments.
Enabling the lpfc_inq_pqb_filter parameter
1. In order to enable this parameter, the options line for the lpfc
driver should be appended to the
/etc/modules.conf file.
The following is an example of
/etc/modules.conf file for a
RHEL 3.0 U4, U5, or U6 system using the integrated Emulex
driver with the
lpfc_inq_pqb_filter parameter enabled:
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
alias scsi_hostadapter sym53c8xx
alias scsi_hostadapter1 lpfc
alias scsi_hostadapter2 lpfc
alias eth0 tlan
options scsi_mod max_scsi_luns=255 scsi_allow_ghost_devices=1
options lpfc lpfc_topology=0x02 lpfc_inq_pqb_filter=1
2. Create a new ramdisk to reflect the changes made.
cd /boot
mkinitrd –v initrd-
$1
.img
$1
where
$1
is the currently running v2.4.x kernel version.
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