HBA card Issue

[puro@pronto]

Hi All,

I have 2 HBA's in my system, in that one shows as READY state and the other HBA shows as DEAD state. I have asked the datacenter guys to to connect the HBA to another switch port and I rebooted the server. After reboot the second HBA came to READY state but after some time again it went to DEAD state.


Host adapter:loop state = <DEAD>, flags = 0x45a03

Is this the problem with the server or with the storage end, Any help!!!!!!!!

[Rubberman]

Have you considered the possibility that the DEAD HBA has a hardware fault?

[puro@pronto]

Is there any way to confirm whether the HBA is faulty or not, because except the DEAD state i couldn't find anything in logs.

[HROAdmin26]

You have 2 HBA's in the same system (I assume the same model using the same driver) attached to the same fabric?

And one works and one doesn't?

The HBA is the problem.

Is there any way to confirm whether the HBA is faulty or not

Put it in another machine or (possibly) another PCI/PCI-E slot - I can only think of the slot as the only other *remotely possible* issue.

[Rubberman]

You have 2 HBA's in the same system (I assume the same model using the same driver) attached to the same fabric?

And one works and one doesn't?

The HBA is the problem.



Put it in another machine or (possibly) another PCI/PCI-E slot - I can only think of the slot as the only other *remotely possible* issue.

I agree with HROAdmin's assessment. There may be a timing or other issue with the slot the "bad" HBA is in. Have you tried switching them around to see if the other card exhibits the same problem. Also, you can try it in another system. FWIW, what motherboard does your system have?

[puro@pronto]

Hi Both are differetnt HBA's "qla2400 and qla2322" , the storage team confirmed that there is no problem from their end and the DC guy has checked the HBA cable connected to the switch port and it is good as well, also he said the hba leds has 3 flashing orange lights. Any idea?