HP XP P9500 Storage User Manual

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If all the following conditions are satisfied, even a path in the normal

status might become Offline(E) or Online(E):

¢

A storage system that has a SATA drive is being used.

¢

There is a heavy I/O load on the storage system.

¢

Path health checking is set to ON.

If this problem happens, reduce the I/O load, and then return the path

status to Online by performing an online operation.

Although the following messages are output when you load the alert

driver and the filter driver respectively, HDLM operations are not affected.

sddlmadrv: unsupported module, tainting kernel.

sddlmadrv: module license 'Proprietary: Contact Hitachi for any

bugs' taints kernel.

If you start the host when using an HDLM device as a boot disk, the error

message KAPL05023-E might be output to the syslog file. However, HDLM

operations are not affected.

dlmmgr: KAPL05023-E Could not process the IOCTL(0000125F).

(00000000:00000000)

Notes When Using Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS4/ES4, or Oracle

Enterprise Linux 4

Note the following when your OS is Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS4/ES4, or

Oracle Enterprise Linux 4:

Before you update the kernel package, uninstall HDLM. After you have

updated the kernel package, re-install HDLM.
For details on HDLM installation and uninstallation, see

Installing HDLM on

page 3-75

and

Uninstalling HDLM on page 3-216

.

SCSI devices corresponding to an HDLM device can be removed

dynamically even while the HDLM device is in use. Before doing so,

perform the following operations:

a

.

Unmount any devices mounted on the HDLM device.

b

.

Execute the dlmcfgmgr -o command to exclude the HDLM device

from management.

When a device is dynamically configured by using the udev function, the

messages shown below might be output to the console or syslog.

However, HDLM operations are not affected.
Output example:

scsi_id[a01]: Cannot find sysfs device associated with /sys/

block/sddlma01

For a01 in the above examples, any alphanumeric character can be

output.

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HDLM Operation

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