Environment
Hardware - N/A
Netware 6.5 sp5
creating pools in imanager
Situation
Was trying to create pools in imanager. The error would appear when
trying to save the new pool. They could create pools fine in nssmu.
Resolution
The problem was the bogus info was coming back from the scsi
inquiry command. This would show up in xml files that imanager uses
to get information about the disk devices. Nssmu worked because it
does not use any xml files. The corruption in the device name can
be seen by doing a LIST DEVICES command at the console prompt.
Garbage characters show up in the devices names:
list devices
0x0001:
[V024-A0-D1:0] Legacy Floppy [FLOPPY]
0x0004:
[V025-A1-D0:0] TEAC CD-532E-B f/w:2.1A [CD]
0x0005:
[V370-A2-D0:0] MegaRAID LD0 RAID1 17365R f/w:D [HDD]
0x0006:
[V370-A2-D1:0] MegaRAID LD1 RAID5 52095R f/w:D [HDD]
Right after the
f/w: there is box. That is the corruption. This info was returned
erroneously by the scsi inquiry command. This is most likely an
issue with firmware on the hba/devices or a driver issue. Engeering
modified a scsihd.cdm to ignore these non ascii characters when
returned by the inquiry. This is only a workaround. This is
not a bug in Netware. They need to check with the vendor of
the hba and devices for latest firmware and or known
issues.
01/04/2007
06:09
PM
34,422 scsihd.cdm