Re: Coping with FSCSI_ERR4 error

From: Steven Langdale (steven.langdale_at_toyland.demon.co.uk)
Date: 01/21/05 

Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 00:21:41 +0000

On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 10:09:40 +0200, Family man <al@gor.com> wrote:

>Hi all,
>I have my p670 running AIX 5.2, partitioned into 3 LPAR's, connected
>via SAN switch to HP XP256 storage array. Each of my LPAR's is
>connected via separate pair of FC adapters and running multipathing
>software from HDS (the XP is OEM box).
>I am experiencing lot of simmilar errors on all of my LPARs, sample is
>attached to the end of this message.
>It seems improbable that all of adapters or cables or switches are
>faulty.
>I am looking for suggestions to alter attributes of the FC adapter or
>protocal device related to it, in order to solve this problem.
>All suggestions welcomed.
>Alex
>---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>LABEL: FSCSI_ERR4
>IDENTIFIER: 3074FEB7
>
Hello

I had simmilar errors in the past (though they never caused any
problems) they went away when I implemented zoning on the switches
and zoned away all of the NT hosts we have. I think it was caused by
too may resets/logins/logouts by the NT servers on the SAN.

How is your SAN configured?

Steven

Relevant Pages

  • Re: FC adapters?
    ... I must have adapters for H80s and p650s. ... > redundant and the two 9216 switches are not cross-connected. ... they are compatible with 5716 HBA. ... I always saw yellow cables. ...
    (comp.unix.aix)
  • Re: Windows 2008 bizarre cluster issue
    ... have all the settings disabled on our NICs. ... We did not change any flow control settings. ... this before they passed us off and we spent all our time with our SAN vendor. ... Switches and our Core Switch Stack is composed of 3750's. ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.clustering)
  • Re: gb issue
    ... but since you have unmanaged switches (or at ... connection unplugged, or unplug another link. ... > servers, I decided to build a GB backbone before all this happen, I ... > We have some servers now connected to SW16, including the SAN file server ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.networking)
  • Re: GB Switch Connection
    ... switches which support spanning tree protocol. ... A gige link should be more htan enough for 60 clients hitting a file server. ... > We have some servers now connected to SW16, including the SAN file server ... > drawing), the GB connection has to be divided by the switch chains, ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.setup)
  • Re: P520 not seeing Hitachi disks
    ... Polarity of SAN cables ... HBA adapters configured mode in the SAN ... > Running cfgmgr gives following errors. ...
    (comp.unix.aix)