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Interpreting Disk Hardware Path

Telefonica OSI — Mon, 13 May 2013 05:22:24 GMT

Reading the HP Fibre Channel Mass Storage Adapters Manual, on the subject related to intrepretint the disk hardware path in private loop topology, when it goes down to the target or lun, it talks about " The value of bits x-x of the 14-bit volume number for an array device using the volume set addressing method".
Anybody knows how to translate that 14-bit volume number from the xpinfo or inqSym utilities output?

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Re: Interpreting Disk Hardware Path

Eugeny Brychkov — Thu, 23 Jan 2003 11:27:02 GMT

Javier,
in ioscan output last 3 fields are usually defined as bus, target and LUN. In volume set addressing mode, all these 3 fields used in non-usual way, and indicate Storage Array LUN number.
bus = 7 bits
target = 4 bits
LUN = 3 bits
real disk array's LUN number will be (consisting of 7+4+3=14 bits):
LUN+taget*8+bus*128
Eugeny

Re: Interpreting Disk Hardware Path

Bill McNAMARA_1 — Thu, 23 Jan 2003 15:07:06 GMT

you'll see an explaination in this link:
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x48691012aa92d5118ff10090279cd0f9,00.html

and also:

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x869de7e60861d511abcd0090277a778c,00.html

for examples of Volume Set Addressing /SCSI protocol limitations on device file construct.

Good Luck