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obtained in step 1 (the driver name of the HDLM driver is dlmfdrv).

Identify the path used to determine the HDLM logical device file name of

the LU from the FilterPath property.

# /usr/sbin/prtconf -vP

The following shows an example of executing the command.
This example shows the information on instance 1 of the HDLM driver

(the driver name of the HDLM driver is dlmfdrv), which is contained in

the output results of the prtconf command.
The shaded portion is the physical device file name of the sd or ssd driver

of the path used to determine the HDLM logical device file name.

Switching the Kernel Mode

If you switch the kernel mode from 32 bits to 64 bits when only the 32-bit

version of HDLM is installed, you must re-install HDLM after the switch is

completed.

For details on how to switch the kernel mode currently being used, see

Switch the Kernel Mode on page 3-48

of

Preparations for a New Installation of

HDLM on page 3-45

.

When the Path Configuration Is Changed in a Boot Disk Environment

When HDLM changes the path used to determine the logic device file name of

an HDLM device, perform the procedures below. If this procedure is not

performed, the disk might fail to boot because the name of the physical

device file corresponding to the logical device file changed. To obtain the path

that HDLM uses to determine the logic device file name of an HDLM device,

execute the procedure described in

When the Path Configuration Is Changed

on page 4-17

.

1

.

Migrate to the local boot disk environment, following the procedure

described in

Migrating from a Boot Disk Environment to the Local Boot

Disk Environment on page 3-110

.

2

.

Change the path configuration.

3

.

Return to the HDLM boot disk environment, following the procedure

described in

Configuring a Boot Disk Environment on page 3-82

.

HDLM Operation

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