You want to know what DMP technology you are using at your server, and if having it activated, how do you see the disks.... Wrote this script: #!/bin/ksh echo "running check" ( echo "MPXIO ?" echo "---------------------------------------------------" modinfo | grep -i vhci M=`modinfo |grep -i vhci | wc -l` if [ $M -gt 0 ];then echo "enabled" else echo "disabled" fi echo "" echo "POWERPATH ?" echo "---------------------------------------------------" modinfo | grep -i emcp P=`modinfo |grep -i emcp | wc -l` if [ $P -gt 0 ];then echo "enabled" else echo "disabled" fi echo "" echo "VXDMP ?" echo "---------------------------------------------------" modinfo | grep -i vxdmp V=`modinfo |grep -i vxdmp | wc -l` if [ $V -gt 0 ];then echo "enabled" else echo "disabled" fi echo "" if [ $P -gt 0 ];then echo "POWERPATH" echo "---------------------------------------------------" /etc/powermt display dev=all fi if [ $V -gt 0 ];then echo "VXDMP" echo "---------------------------------------------------" 205/433 vxdmpadm listctlr all fi if [ $M -gt 0 ];then echo "LUXADM" echo "---------------------------------------------------" for d in `format < /dev/null| egrep 'HIT|EMC' | awk '{ print $2 }'`;do echo $d luxadm display /dev/rdsk/${d}s2 done fi if [ -f /usr/sbin/vxdisk ];then echo "VXDISK LIST" echo "---------------------------------------------------" for d in `/usr/sbin/vxdisk -o alldgs list| awk '{ print $1 }'`;do echo $d /usr/sbin/vxdisk list $d done fi ) > /tmp/results_`uname -n`.txt echo "finished running check" Run it, relax, and enjoy Thx to Hiram Ruiz and Corey Joiner And YES This site has been back on Slackware 11 since at least 1 month. - rdircio 206/433