[HPADM] Summary: replacing an unused lancard with a scsi card gives headache

From: COUPRIE Kees (Kees.COUPRIE@swift.com)
Date: Thu Jul 21 2005 - 03:50:41 EDT


The magic answer is: recreate ioconfig.

It's a lengthy procedure, which I have on paper only. If you need it, send me an email and I will fax it to you.

Best regards,
Kees Couprie
 

>-----Original Message-----
>From: COUPRIE Kees
>Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 07:33
>To: 'hpux-admin@DutchWorks.nl'
>Subject: replacing an unused lancard with a scsi card gives headache
>
>Hi everyone. Are you having a pleasant day?
>
>I have a bit of a problem problem. We had to move an MO drive
>(SCSI based device) from one of our older systems to a new RP3440.
>The problem started when there was no place to plug the SCSI
>cable into the new system because there was no SCSI port available.
>After conferring with HP and management, the solution agreed
>upon was to have the SCSI card moved from from the old system
>to the RP3440. The only problem with that was that all four
>PCI slots on this RP3440 were used. The simple solution was
>to remove an unused 4-port lan card and replace it with the
>dual port SCSI card. There is only one problem that remains.
>ioscan returns the
>following:
>
> lan 7 0/6/1/0.6.0 btlan UNCLAIMED UNKNOWN
>HP C1160M
>
>We have tried rmsf using several options but nothing works.
>We have rebuilt the kernel making sure scsi3 was included. We cannot
>fix it. Do you have any ideas or suggestions on how this can be fixed?
>
>Thanks and kindest regards,
>Kees Couprie
>


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