PRIMECLUSTER Global Disk Services Configuration and Administration Guide 4.1 (Solaris(TM) Operating System)

A.2.1 Physical Disk Driver

GDS can only manage physical disks controlled by the following device drivers. In other words, physical disks controlled by other disk drivers cannot be registered with classes.

sd

SCSI disk driver
(Solaris(TM) Operating System standard equipment)

ssd

Device driver for disk arrays and Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL) disks
(Solaris(TM) Operating System standard equipment)

dad

IDE disk driver
(Solaris(TM) Operating System standard equipment)

hddv

Fujitsu's disk array device driver

mphd

Multi-path driver from Fujitsu

mplb

Multi-path driver from Fujitsu

emcpower

Multi-path driver from EMC

emcp

Multi-path driver from EMC

vpathdd

Multi-path driver from Hitachi

dlmfdrv

Multi-path driver from Hitachi

mpd

Multi-path driver from Fujitsu Siemens Computers

Physical disks that can be registered with the root class are only those controlled by the following disk drivers.

sd, ssd, dad

When the above requirements are not met, the sdxdisk -M command and the sdxshadowdisk -M command will end abnormally and output one of the following error messages.

SDX: sdxdisk: ERROR: physical_disk_name: disk driver driver_name not supported
SDX: sdxdisk: ERROR: physical_disk_name: disk driver driver_name not supported for root class
SDX: sdxshadowdisk: ERROR: physical_disk_name: disk driver driver_name not supported