When releasing a multipath device under RHEL4, different SCSI devices corresponding to different paths must be cleared properly before removing the SAN LUN effectively. When the LUN was delete before to clean up the paths at the OS level, it is always possible to remove them afterwards. In the following example, it is assume that the freeing LVM manipulations were already done, and that the LUN is managed by EMC PowerPath.
First, get and verify the SCSI devices corresponding to the multipath LUN:
# grep "I/O error on device" /var/log/messages | tail -2
Feb 4 00:20:47 beastie kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sdo, \
logical block 12960479
Feb 4 00:20:47 beastie kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sdp, \
logical block 12960479
# powermt display dev=sdo
Bad dev value sdo, or not under Powerpath control.
# powermt display dev=sdp
Bad dev value sdp, or not under Powerpath control.
Then, get the appropriate scsi#:channel#:id#:lun# informations:
# find /sys/devices -name "*block" -print | \
xargs \ls -l | awk -F\/ '$NF ~ /sdo$/ || $NF ~ /sdp$/ \
{print "HBA: "$7"\tscsi#:channel#:id#:lun#: "$9}'
HBA: host0 scsi#:channel#:id#:lun#: 0:0:0:9
HBA: host0 scsi#:channel#:id#:lun#: 0:0:1:9
When the individual SCSI paths are known, remove them from the system:
# echo 1 > /sys/bus/scsi/devices/0\:0\:0\:9/delete
# echo 1 > /sys/bus/scsi/devices/0\:0\:1\:9/delete
# dmesg | grep "Synchronizing SCSI cache"
Synchronizing SCSI cache for disk sdp:
Synchronizing SCSI cache for disk sdo: