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Compex Systems Advanced SerialRAID Adapters SA33-3285-02 User Manual

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SRN

Problem

Possible Causes

4252C

Description: The Fast-Write Cache Option Card battery needs to be
exchanged for a new one.

Action: Exchange the FRU for a new FRU.

Possible FRUs:

Fast-Write Cache Option
Card battery (100%)
(“Removing the Fast-Write
Cache Option Card of an
Advanced SerialRAID
Adapter” on page 332).

4252D

Description: Fast-write caching is suspended (stopped temporarily) for
one or more devices.

Action:

1. Type

smitty devices

and press Enter.

2. Select SSA Disks.

3. Select SSA Logical Disks.

4. Select Enable/Disable Fast-Write for Multiple Devices.

5. Note the numbers of each hdisk that is listed under “Fast-Write is

Suspended for these devices”.

6. If you do not know which RAID Manager (SSA adapter) is managing

the hdisk, give the following command from the command line:

ssaadap-l hdiskn

Where

hdiskn

is the hdisk number that you noted in step 5.

7. For each hdisk that you noted in step 5, give the following command

from the command line:

ssaraid -H -l RaidManager -n hdiskn -a fw_suspended=false

Where:

RaidManager

is the SSA adapter that is managing the

fast-write device, and

hdiskn

is the hdisk number that you noted in

step 5.

v

An unexpected loss of power
has occurred on the using
system.

v

The user has stopped an
uncouple operation.

42540

Description: Two-way fast-write for a disk drive is configured to operate
only when both caches are available. One cache, however, is now not
available.

Action:

1. If the using system that contains the partner adapter is switched off,

switch it on.

2. If the configuration has been changed, review the configuration rules,

and restore a valid configuration.

3. Run diagnostics on the partner adapter, and correct all problems. (The

partner adapter is the other adapter on the SSA loop that includes the
adapter that reported the problem.)

4. If, while the other adapter is not available, the user wants to use the

fast-write function on disk drives that are attached to this adapter,
change the state of the Bypass Cache In 1-Way Fast-Write Network
flag (see “Bypassing the Cache in a One-Way Fast-Write Network” on
page 217).

v

Failure in another using
system.

v

A user action has set
Bypass Cache when
1–way
.

v

Configuration change.

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