On Wed, 19 Dec 2007, Gary Mills 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?
>
> --
> -Gary Mills- -Unix Support- -U of M Academic Computing and Networking-
>

Its universally true for gbics, has nothing to do with v480 in itself I
belive, the gbic seems to "age" with time, especially in hot environments
in my own experience...

I had more faults on gbics from certain providers then others, but I wont
list them here since I dont have any numbers to back that up with, and
I havent not done this recently anyhow.

/Johan A