Gary Mills <mills@cc.umanitoba.ca> wrote:
> In <Pine.GSO.4.53.0712191010140.1001@krynn.solace.miu n.se> "Mr. Johan Andersson" <johan@solace.miun.se> writes:
>
>>On Wed, 12 Dec 2007, lahuman9 wrote:
>>> On Dec 10, 11:04 pm, ChrisS <chris.sca...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > On Dec 10, 9:06 pm, lahuman9 <lahum...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > > On Dec 10, 8:26 pm, ChrisS <chris.sca...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > > > I have a Sun Fire v480 server that just started spitting out NOTICEs
>>> > > > about Qlogic qlc(0) Loop going OFFLINE then immediately back ONLINE.
>>> > > > It's doing it about every couple hours.
>
> You mean like this?
>
> Dec 18 13:51:30 electra qlc: [ID 686697 kern.info] NOTICE: Qlogic qlc(0): Loop OFFLINE
> Dec 18 13:51:30 electra qlc: [ID 686697 kern.info] NOTICE: Qlogic qlc(0): Loop ONLINE
>
>>> > > > Is qlc(0) really /devices/pci@9,600000/SUNW,qlc@2/fp.... ? That
>>> > > > would mean the internal controller would be going bad in the v480,
>>> > > > right?
>
>>No, it means that qlc(0) is going bad, that is not nessesarily the
>>internal controller...
>
>>To see if qlc(0) is the internal controller or not, check that path
>>against the ones given in the documentation, you can easily spot if
>>its a pci-card, which will have a specific path depending on slot, or
>>the internal one, which has a specific path too.
>
> My V480 did the same thing yesterday, although it's only been once so
> far. It only has the two internal disks and a single fibre-channel
> controller. Is this something that happens to V480s when they get
> to be a few years old?

Sun has released a FIN recently about the V480s. CPU board B may not be
seated correctly, and lead to general flakiness. We've seen problems with
three or four machines that have been fixed by reseating the boards, so
it might be worth trying.

Colin