On Wed, 21 Jul 2004, Adrian Bridgett wrote:

a) Date: 21 Jul 2004 15:34:14 -0700
a) From: Adrian Bridgett <adrian@smop.co.uk>
a) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
a) Subject: Re: AIX 5.2 connected to a TP9500
a)
a) "Michael E. Thomadakis" <miket@hellas.tamu.edu> wrote in message news:<Pine.SGI.4.58.0407201554230.126285@hellas.ta mu.edu>...
a) > Hello all,
a) >
a) > we have a p690 IBM system running AIX 5.2 and we would like to attach it to a
a) > storage partition of an SGI TP9500 via 2 2Gigabit FC connections (2 PCI-X FC
a) > 6239, type 5705 IBM adapters). The TP9500 is similar to a FASt 900.
a) >
a) > Does anyone know of the necessary steps to accomplish this task? I've noticed
a) > that the TP9500 requires the host port numbers (WWN) to be specified for the
a) > partition that will be accessible by the IBM host. Does anyone know how to
a) > obtain this information from the AIX side? How are failover paths for
a) > FC storage specified in AIX 5.2?
a)
a) lsdev -Cc adapter (will show you your adapters)
a)
a) lscfg -vpl fcsX (replace X with the various adapters)
a)
a) the fastts normallly display a list of suitable WWNs. There are
a) various redbooks etc on the ibm site that will help you with this.
a) the main other component is the RDAC driver (bos.drivers.fcp.array.* I
a) think)
a)
a) fget_config -A -v (I think that's right) should show you the
a) controllers and fastt it can see)
a)
a) Two things to be aware of:
a) a) ibm only supports certain AIX setups with fastt
a) b) certainly when ordering a fastt there is an "AIX attachement"
a) option - I imagine that this provides a license key to allow "AIX" to
a) appear in the host-type panel.
a)

Adrian, thanks for the info. I was going over the various documentation pieces
at the IBM site and I found (among 100s of irelevant) the following to be
useful documentation:

FAStT
``Installation and Support Guide for AIX, HP-UX, and Solaris'',
Third Edition (2004-06-17), v. 05.42.03.00, ref. MIGR-55697
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/pc/pccbbs...f/kd602mst.pdf


FC Adapter Installation
``Fibre Channel Planning and Integration: User's Guide and Service
Information'', Fourth Edition (May 2002),
23329.pdf

Thanks for your reply!

-MT