I just added 13 drives to my server. Before I put the drives in I copied the WWN off the label so I could easily match them later if I need to do maintenance on a single drive. When I went to add the drives I noticed that every one of them is off by 0x3. My drives that end in 4c become 4F, 58 becomes 5B, and B0 becomes B3. I don't have any drives with the last character larger than C, so I can't tell if it truly wraps to increment the second digit or not.

This is connected to a lsi 9211-8e to a Supermicro JBOD array. I think i had noticed this before on my Intel Drives that are in the head unit (and in use so I can't take any out to confirm now), but had never investigated and though I had just mislabeled the drives.

Here is a snip of the format:

root@dal-nexenta:/export/home/admin# format
Searching for disks...done

c0t5000C500415D5BFBd0: configured with capacity of 2794.52GB
c0t5000C500415D6A67d0: configured with capacity of 2794.52GB
c0t5000C500415D7BCFd0: configured with capacity of 2794.52GB
c0t5000C500415D7157d0: configured with capacity of 2794.52GB
c0t5000C500415DBE4Fd0: configured with capacity of 2794.52GB
c0t5000C500415DCA5Bd0: configured with capacity of 2794.52GB
c0t5000C500415DF4AFd0: configured with capacity of 2794.52GB
c0t5000C500415E30B3d0: configured with capacity of 2794.52GB
c0t5000C500415E388Fd0: configured with capacity of 2794.52GB
c0t5000C500415F2E0Fd0: configured with capacity of 2794.52GB
c0t5000C500415F6CC7d0: configured with capacity of 2794.52GB
c0t5000C500415F204Bd0: configured with capacity of 2794.52GB
c0t5000C500415F302Fd0: configured with capacity of 2794.52GB


AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
       0. c0t5000C500415D5BFBd0 
          /scsi_vhci/disk@g5000c500415d5bfb
       1. c0t5000C500415D6A67d0 
          /scsi_vhci/disk@g5000c500415d6a67
       2. c0t5000C500415D7BCFd0 
          /scsi_vhci/disk@g5000c500415d7bcf
       3. c0t5000C500415D7157d0 
          /scsi_vhci/disk@g5000c500415d7157
       4. c0t5000C500415DBE4Fd0 
          /scsi_vhci/disk@g5000c500415dbe4f
       5. c0t5000C500415DCA5Bd0 
          /scsi_vhci/disk@g5000c500415dca5b

Is this a driver or some other issue that needs to be investigated?