Sun StorEdge[tm] A5100 Array: Field Change Orders
Some documentation links included on this page may contain "A5000" in the title, but they were included because the contents of these documents are also relevant and applicable to the A5100 array.
Implementation (Impl.):
M = Mandatory (Fully Pro-Active)
C = Controlled Pro-Active (per Sun Geo Plan)
U = Upon Failure |
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FCO
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Impl.
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Components
Affected |
Description |
| A0199-2 |
C
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18GB FCAL disk Seagate ST318203FC (540-4440-01)
18GB FCAL disk Seagate ST318304FC (540-4673-01)
36GB FCAL disk Seagate ST136403FC (540-4367-01)
18GB FCAL disk Seagate ST318203FC (540-4191-01)
9GB FCAL disk Seagate ST39102FC (540-3869-01)
36GB FCAL disk Seagate ST136403FC (540-4192-01) |
Seagate Cheetah 3 FCAL disk drives may experience higher than
expected failure rate. |
| A0172-1 |
C
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72-inch StorEdge Cabinet
(Delorean) |
Delorean 72-inch StorEdge Cabinets shipped
before July 12, 1999 may have unusable Anti-Tilt stabilizer rails. During
installation of a 72-inch StorEdge Cabinet it may become apparent that it
is not possible to fit the Anti-Tilt stabilizer rails to the cabinet screw
studs. Some rails may fit initially, but subsequently they may bind in use
or become completely jammed. This may make the rails unusable. In some cases
rails may even fall off, as persistent binding can loosen the screw-in studs.
This problem may become apparent some time after installation, following
a number of rail extension and retraction operations. |
| A0164-1 |
C
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FC-AL PCI Card FC100/P 375-0040-02 |
A host system using the 375-0040-01 or
-02 FC-AL PCI card to attach to FC-AL storage, may experience loop errors which
affect data access to that storage. In extreme cases, this can result in
the host losing its connection to the storage completely. However, it is
more common for the loop errors to be intermittent initially, perhaps becoming
more frequent over a period of days or a few weeks. The failures are sometimes
sensitive to the data pattern on the FC-AL loop, so they are not always
reproducible with current diagnostic software.
Below are examples of error messages;
unix: ifp0: Loop down
unix: ifp0: Loop is down: finishing off loop reconfig
unix: ifp0: Loop reconfigure done, LIP
unix: WARNING: /pci@1f,2000/SUNW,ifp@1/ssd@w21000020370d323b,0 (ssd58):
unix: requeue of command fails (fffffffe)
- or -
unix: WARNING: /pci@1f,2000/SUNW,ifp@1/ssd@w21000020371430cd,0(ssd2):
unix: Error for Command: write(10) Error Level: Retryable
unix: Requested Block: 4241 Error Block: 4241
unix: Vendor: SEAGATE Serial Number: 9833X17325
unix: Sense Key: Aborted Command
unix: ASC: 0x47 (scsi parity error), ASCQ: 0x0, FRU: 0x3 |
| A0144-3 |
M
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370-2303-02 GBIC |
A small percentage of Vixel GBICs (370-2303-02)
are demonstrating symptoms consistent with marginal signal quality on the
GBaud FC-AL loops. Marginal signal quality can be caused by variations in
component quality for GBICs, backplanes, interface boards, interconnect
assemblies, and FC-AL drives.
Symptoms of the GBICs manufactured by Vixel include the following:
- excessive "CRC Error" or "scsi parity error" messages
- excessive "OFFLINE" messages
- excessive "timeout" messages
- "Offline Timeout" messages
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| A0138-1 |
C
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501-3060-06 (or below) FC-AL SBus Card (FC100/S)
501-5202-02 (or below) FC-AL SBus Card (FC100/S)
501-5266-01 (or below) FC-AL SBus Card (FC100/S)
501-4883-02 (or below) Sunfire I/O Board with SOC+
501-4884-02 (or below) Sunfire I/O Graphics Board with SOC+
501-4266-05 (or below) Sunfire I/O Board with SOC+ |
SBus/FC-AL SOC+ Host Adapters may experience
recoverable data transfer read errors. This can result in individual user
applications, like Oracle, to stop running.
Examples of errors are listed below:
- SUNWvts /var/adm/messages file xfer errors with Release5 patches
installed:
Jul 6 11:06:51 tester unix: WARNING: /sbus@2,0/SUNW,socal@d,10000/sf@1,0
(sf1):
Jul 6 11:06:51 tester unix: Transport error on target=0x4:
Fiber Channel: INCOMPLETE DMA XFER on sbus
The message "INCOMPLETE DMA XFER on sbus", indicates that the
transfer failed. This is a retryable error and the driver will
reissue the I/O.
- SUNWvts log file xfer compare error with or without Release5 patches
installed:
Big compare failed on 'device', block 122491, offset 12876
The message indicates that the data transfer to memory does not
match that written to the disc.
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