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Unable to discover disks

910311Jan 16 2012 — edited Jan 28 2012
Hi all,
I'm new to storage matter, so maybe I'm doing a silly question.
I'm trying to configure multipath on an external storage from OEL 6.

I know that two FC connections have been made between my Server and the external storage.
I expected to see two external drives on my Linux Server, both pointing to a single physical disk.
But if I check with "fdisk -l" I see a single external disk:


[root@host ~]# fdisk -l

Disco /dev/sda: 897.0 GB, 896998047744 byte

255 testine, 63 settori/tracce, 109053 cilindri
Unità = cilindri di 16065 * 512 = 8225280 byte
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Identificativo disco: 0x0005bacb

Dispositivo Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 1020 8192000 83 Linux
La partizione 1 non termina al limite del cilindro.
/dev/sda2 1020 26517 204800000 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 26517 45639 153600000 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 45639 109054 509381632 5 Esteso
/dev/sda5 45639 58388 102400000 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 58388 71136 102400000 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 71136 82609 92160000 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 82610 86434 30720000 83 Linux
/dev/sda9 86434 89494 24576000 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda10 89494 92043 20480000 83 Linux
/dev/sda11 92044 94593 20480000 83 Linux
/dev/sda12 94593 109054 116157440 83 Linux

Disco /dev/sdb: 1073 MB, 1073741824 byte
*34 testine, 61 settori/tracce, 1011 cilindri*
Unità = cilindri di 2074 512 = 1061888 byte*
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Identificativo disco: 0xa91a8868

Dispositivo Boot Start End Blocks Id System
*/dev/sdb1 2 1011 1047370 83 Linux*

SDA is my internal disk, SDB is the external disk. I expected to see even something like SDC, pointing to the same external disk as SDB.
Have I done something wrong?

Thank you,
Gianluca
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