Release Notes

file:///T|/htdocs/SOFTWARE/smdrac3/drac4/1.50/en/readme/readme.txt[10/26/2012 10:03:23 AM]
ISSUES FOR NETWARE OPERATING SYSTEM
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* When using local racadm to configure a DRAC 4 in NetWare, if
the DRAC 4 PCI interrupt is shared with other PCI devices the
spurious interrupt count may increase. This known issue is not known
to cause any abnormal system behavior. The following message may be
seen on the console:
WARNING: 200 spurious (unclaimed) interrupt(s) detected on interrupt
24. Spurious interrupt alerts occur when an interrupt is
not claimed by any of the registered handlers for that
interrupt. (130450)
* When a remote "Reset," "Power Off," or "Power Cycle" is issued
through the DRAC 4 on NetWare, some NetWare applications may require
user interaction to close application windows. If this action is
necessary, you should use the DRAC 4 Console Redirection to manually
close the application windows to allow NetWare to shut down.
(74125)
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ISSUES FOR LINUX OPERATING SYSTEM
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* Servers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 4 or SLES 10 should
use the SCSI-IDE driver rather than the native IDE driver to avoid
system errors when the DRAC 4 is reset. To do this, add
"hdf=ide-scsi" on the grub command line in /boot/grub/grub.conf (if
"hdf" is your virtual CD drive). Verify that "hdf" is your virtual
CD drive by checking /proc/ide/hdf/model. Other virtual CD drive
names include "hde". The command line may look like this before it
is modified:
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-5.Elsmp ro root=/dev/md2 rhgb quiet
After modifying the command line, the line should look like this:
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-5.Elsmp ro root=/dev/md2 rhgb quiet hdf=ide-scsi
The SCSI layer will take the virtual CD-ROM device off-line when
the RAC card is reset. To bring it back online, issue the following
two commands:
echo "scsi remove-single-device 4 0 0 0" >/proc/scsi/scsi
echo "scsi add-single-device 4 0 0 0" >/proc/scsi/scsi
"4 0 0 0" represents the host, channel, ID, and lun of the virtual
CD drive. This is available in /proc/scsi/scsi, even after the
device is off-line. The " 0 0 0" should not change, but the "4" may
change depending on how many other SCSI hosts are present in the
system. (141372)
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