This section provides the most common repair procedures for the
A3500 Controller Module. The repair procedures are provided in the following
manual:
The table below provides the page numbers that each procedure begins on.
Component
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Section/Page Number
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Tips
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Controller Module
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When replacing the controller module in an A3x00, there
are software steps that must be performed. For information about these
necessary steps, please refer to the
Sun
StorEdge A3x00 Controller FRU Replacement Guide (805-7854)
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Sun StorEdge D1000 Components |
|
- Replacement Hitachi disk drives with PQ08 firmware in A1000/A3x00
arrays may disappear after "sysReboot" and "dstDevs" commands are issued
(FIN I1076-1).
- Arrays using Raid Manager 6.xx may hang for more than 3 minutes when
they contain a failed Hitachi drive (FIN I1065-1).
- Improved drive firmware will reduce the incidence of HDI failures
on IBM Discovery disk drives (FIN I0955-1).
- Sun StorEdge A1000/A3x00/A3500FC Arrays with RAID Manager 6 (RM6)
may hang for up to 8 minutes when they contain more than one failed
IBM disk drive (FIN I0845-1
).
- Adding new disk drives to StorEdge A1000/A3x00 arrays must be done
properly to avoid loss of LUNs (FIN I0782-1)
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Mounting Rails
|
|
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SCSI Cables
|
|
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Controller
|
|
-
After performing A3500 SCSI to FC upgrade Product
ID displayed via a 'Module Profile' still indicated SCSI controller.
(FIN I0590-1
)
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The firmware download procedure documented in the
A3x00 Controller Replacement Guide pn 805-7854-11 is incomplete and
miss
es some critical instructions. (FIN I0553-1
)
-
Boot process and controller on-line process may take
hours in systems with large StorEdge A3000, A3500 or A1000 configs.
(FIN I0551-1
)
|
Disk Drive
|
|
-
Improved firmware for Seagate 10K.6 disk drives will reduce the incidence of unexpected outages due to a spindle motor issue (FIN I1136-1).
-
Seagate Cheetah 7 FC-AL and SCSI disk drives with serial numbers
below 60000 are experiencing a higher than expected failure rate due to a spindle
motor issue (FCO A0239-1).
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Memory SIMM
|
|
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Controller Card Cage
|
|
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Power Cord |
|
|
Power Supply |
|
|
Battery Unit |
|
-
Any Battery Backup Unit over two years old may not
have enough energy to hold data (FCO A0165-1
)
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DC Power Harness |
|
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Power Supply Housing |
|
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Battery Harness |
|
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Controller Fan
|
|
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Power Supply Fan
|
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