Re: Fidre channel array

["Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty@vianet.ca>]

On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 08:33:27PM +1300, Fred Zinsli wrote:
> Hello everyone
> 
> I am a real newby to linux, not just debian.
> 
> I have an old compaq 6500 with 2 fibre channel arrays insalled.
> 
> I have installed deb 4.0R5 on the server.
> 
> When I do a lspci the 2 adapters appear on the list of devices.
 
> The adapters already have disk arrays attached.
> 
> What I am wanting to know is how do I use/access/setup these devices so
> that I can access/use the disk arrays attached to the devices.

The adapter should present the disk arrays as virtual drives to the OS.
They should just appear in dmesg as if they are scsi drives of whatever
size.  do:

$ dmesg | grep -i sd

and

$ dmesg | grep -i scsi

and

$ ls -l /dev/disk/by-path


Doug.