Greetings to all members of the group.
I ask for help from an expert to see if I can finally solve my difficulties. I explain the situation.
I have a workstation (HP Z420) with its corresponding HBA (LSI7404XP-LC). The board connects to two AD542C disk enclosures (14 x HD 500Gb FC) that are connected in series, so that the FC cable enters the upper connector of module A (M5413) of enclosure 1, and the lower connector of That M5413 comes out another cable that connects to cabinet 2. The disks have been assigned in windows not with letters but with "drive paths", such as: Cabin xx Disk YY, with XX = 01, 02 and YY = 01, 02, ..., 14.
With this structure, the 28 discs are perfectly accessible and reading and writing on them is done without difficulty.
My idea was that instead of this structure, computer and each cabinet, they would be connected to a FC switch, but no matter how hard I tried, modifying the type of switch port I cannot communicate, it is impossible to access any disk.
I have tested with the following models:
Silkworm 2400, 2800, 200E all of them type Fabric and 352 FC this a loop switch.
This is my question:
How should I configure the ports for any of these switches to act as a hub?
Don't these switch models allow such a configuration?
Thank you very much for the help.