Sun StorEdge[tm] A5000 Array: Repair Procedures
This section provides the most common repair procedures for the A5000.
The repair procedures are provided in the following manual:
 Sun StorEdge A5000 Installation and Service Manual
The table below provides the page numbers that each procedure begins on.
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Component
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Page Number
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Tips
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Disk Drive
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7-3
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- Various applications running on Sun StorEdge A5000 units with 9GB
ST19171FC drives may report SCSI transport, SCSI reset or read errors
(FIN I0503-1).
- Recovering from a root filesystem disk failure or corruption on an
internal FC-AL boot disk in an E3500 Server or a FC-AL boot disk in
a A5000 which is not mirrored with SEVM or SDS (FIN I0421-1).
Note: This FIN was written before there was an official fix for
this; also refer to SRDB
17643 if this problem is experienced.
- Empty backplane/incorrect configuration on Sun StorEdge A5x00 can Cause
Errors. Empty backplanes can generate errors which are intermittent
and difficult to isolate (FIN I0400-2).
- Rare but recoverable "write faults" may occur when adding or upgrading
18.2GB 7200 RPM FC-AL drives into the Sun StorEdge A5000 that were manufactured
before January 1, 1999 (FCO A0147-1).
- Recovering from a failed FC boot disk (SRDB 17463).
- How to Replace an A5x00 Disk Under AP 2.1 and Volume Manager (VxVM or SEVM) (InfoDoc
21101).
- After disk replacement in A5000 (Photon), Volume Manager gets error:
cxtxxdxsx online failed : device path not valid (SRDB 17003).
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Fibre Optic Cable
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7-8
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GBIC
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7-9
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Visual identification of -02 and -03 GBICs without
physically removing from system (FIN I0502-1).
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A small percentage of Vixel GBICs (370-2303-02) are
demonstrating symptoms consistent with marginal signal quality on
the GBaud FC-AL loops. Marginal signal quality can be caused by variations
in component quality for GBICs, backplanes, interface boards, interconnect
assemblies, and FC drives (FCO A0144-3).
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Interface Board (IB)
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7-11
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Door Panel Assembly
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7-12
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Front Panel Module
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7-13
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Fan Tray
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7-14
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Power Supply
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7-15
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AC Power Filter
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7-16
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Backplane
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7-17
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The revision level printed on the labels for the 7-slot
Backplane and the 11-slot Backplane for the A5000, A5100, and A5200
array are different than the revision levels that are dynamically
reported by the arrays (FIN I0501-1).
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Interconnect Assembly
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7-19
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SMCC Engineering has noted several isolated instances
involving the Enterprise Network Array[tm], where the EMI clip sandwiched
between the underside of the Horizontal Interconnect Board and the
top edge of the Vertical Interconnect Board nearest the Interface
Boards, had shifted just far enough to allow the EMI clip to overlap
and make contact with the soldermask over the Fibre Channel signal
traces (FIN I0373-1).
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Rack Mounted A5x00 Disk Array
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7-26
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