3.1.5.7 Persistent Device Naming

Under certain configurations, such as when the Fibre Channel disk is the boot device of a system, it may be preferable to lock a target disk to a unit number. LSI Logic Fcode allows the system administrator to write a nonvolatile map of IDs to the Fibre Channel controller.

The following is an example of how to map devices in the persistent device table.

Select the controller you want to modify, as follows:

ok show-disks

a)/pci@1f,0/pci@1/IntraServer,fc@2/disk

b)/pci@1f,0/pci@1/IntraServer,Ultra2-scsi@1/disk

c)/pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/cdrom

d)/pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/disk

e)/pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ebus@1/fdthree@14,3203f0

q) NO SELECTION

Enter Selection, q to quit: a /pci@1f,0/pci@1/IntraServer,fc@2/disk has been selected.

Type ^Y ( Control-Y ) to insert it in the command line. e.g. ok nvalias mydev ^Y for creating devalias mydev for /pci@1f,0/pci@1/IntraServer,fc@2/disk

ok select /pci@1f,0/pci@1/IntraServer,fc@2

ok show-children

MPT Firmware Version 1.00

Target 0

Unit 0 Disk SEAGATE ST39173FC 6615

WWN 200000203710c4e8 PortID a3

ok set-persistent<- command with no arguments prints help

usage is <current-target-id> <persistent-target-id> set-persistent

ok 0 0 set-persistentok show-persistent

Entry 1 WWN 200000203710c4e8 Target 0

To clear an entry in the persistent device map, use the clear-persistent command:

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