SUMMARY: SOC+ reset on E3500

From: Sherman, Bill (Bill.Sherman@bridge.bellsouth.com)
Date: Fri Jul 16 1999 - 09:10:06 CDT


Thanks to:
Nick - nick@synonym.orca.com
William Hathaway - whathaway@hersheys.com
Mark Sherman (no relation that I know of!) - mark.sherman@stratech.com
Steve Turgeon - steve_turgeon_at_putnam@putnaminv.com
Gert-Jan.van.Kooten@kender-thijssen.nl

Not sure if this is solved by patching, unpatching or ignoring. Will
try researching the various patches further and find what seems to work.
General consensus is that it is not a fatal problem.

Thanks for the wonderful help!

Bill

ORIGINAL POST
 Curious problem.
 System: E3500, Solaris 2.6 w/recommended patch cluster,
 2 FCAL adapters, OBP 3.2.22

 On system reboot I am getting the following message:

 "Forcing SOC+ reset as LIP timed out."

 No apparent ill effects to the system, but it's one of those things I'd
 like to have identified just in case.

 Thanks for the help! Summary to follow....

 Bill

Looks like one of the devices one of your fc loops is not responding to
the "link up" (LIP) that the hba makes when it requests access to an
active loop, resulting in a timeout. Guess the hard reset works if all
the devices are then available to the E3500.

nick

Bill,
  here is a copy of the A5000 troubleshooting guide, which might be
helpful in explaining about FCAL error messages, most of this should
apply to the E3500 internal disks.
 <<a5000_troubleshoot>> *** AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST ***
William Hathaway
whathaway@hersheys.com
717/534-8738

this is shown as bug id 4207770, no resolution shown in bug report on
sunsolve. i've seen this on a machine in use for 1.5 months with no
other problems.
mark-s.

you need to load 106129-07 patch on the system which downloads
new disk firmware. Boot from cdrom, put the new firmware on,
reboot, and you'll be all set. Steve

Hello,

This is due to patch 105375 revision 10. It only happens on E3500
systems and you can simply ignore the message. If you backout this patch
and replace it by 105375-09 this problem is gone (but that is not real
solution). The message "Forced SOC+ reset as LIP timed out" is than
changed in "socal0: port0: Fibre Channel loop is ONLINE"

Gert



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