Re: booting and fiber disks

no.
it is normal for this hardware to scan all devices when booting up.


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Dave Zarnoch
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Subject: Re: booting and fiber disks

Yes,

When we tried to set the boot device in the SMS menu, it still scanned
all of the fibre disks.

Anyway around this?

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>Even though the bootlist only contains cd0, it will still search every
single fibre attached diskin order to boot

are you sure it tried to boot from every san-disk?

or was the box just scanning its devices, which is/works as designed?


>(We also disconnected the fiber and the boot just hung)
strange... did you try to setup/choose the boot-device directly in the
sms-menus?


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From: IBM AIX Discussion List [mailto:aix-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Dave Zarnoch
Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 3:31 PM
To: aix-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: booting and fiber disks

We had some problems booting from cd0 on a box that has a fiber
connection to an EMC box.

Even though the bootlist only contains cd0, it will still search every
single fibre attached diskin order to boot

Is there a way around this?

(We also disconnected the fiber and the boot just hung)

Thanks!



Dave Zarnoch
Nationwide Provident
zarnocd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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