11 Nov
1999
11 Nov
'99
6:46 a.m.
bentele@mtu-friedrichshafen.com writes:
Replacing motherboard and FC-Adapter-Card at last solved the problem, after we replaced all cables, all shelves of this loop, and about 3 disks.
One of my main complaints about the current fcal implementation for the filers is that there is no visual indicator of loop status. I know NetApp is working toward addressing this, but it would have been nice to have from the start.
I wish fcal were more like token ring or fddi and that the loop were "self healing". When I had an LRC fail on an fcal shelf, there was no way of finding which LRC (used process of elimination) was the culprit, as the entire loop was offline, not just the failed shelf and those after it.
Alex