Thanks for the many fast responses. General concensus is that we need to upgrade
our 8400 and KZPSA firmware.
Compaq also reported that the problem may be due to "a CCL version older than
4.0". However, a show config on our system doesn't mention CCL at all.
Original below,
Bernie Jones
bernie.jones_at_gb.unisys.com
On Feb 17, 14:08, bernie.jones_at_gb.unisys.com wrote:
> Subject: 8400 sometimes loses CDROM drive
>
> A strange, intermittent problem this one. We have two 8400's at firmware
level
> 4.9
>
> Sometimes, following power up (disable -> enable) the CDROM (RRD45) isn't
seen
> during the SCSI probe. No error messages are reported, but it just
>doesn't
> appear in the show dev output. Pressing the eject button doesn't open
>the
> drive, so it looks as if it hasn't been seen at init time. The same
> problem appears on both boxes about 25% of the time. Switching off and
>on
> is the only way I know to fix it.
>
> P.S. We're currently sticking with firmware 4.9 because 5.0 comes with a
caution
> about problems with KZPSAs.
Received on Wed Feb 17 1999 - 16:13:50 NZDT