Release Notes

file:///T|/htdocs/SOFTWARE/smdrac3/drac4/170/en/readme/readme.txt[10/26/2012 8:38:00 AM]
action is necessary, 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 SYSTEMS
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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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ISSUES FOR RED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX OPERATING SYSTEM
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* Servers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 4 logs an
informational message in /var/log/messages when the virtual CDROM
is enabled and there is no connection to a virtual media client.
No corrective action is needed. The warning message will look
like this example:
Dec 1 10:16:28 r2p2 kernel: Device not ready. Make sure there
is a disc in the drive.
* In modular Red Hat Enterprise Linux kernels, USB flash drives
require the sd_mod (scsi disk module) to be loaded. If a
Red Hat Enterprise Linux-based Virtual Media client system has no
SCSI disks, the sd_mod may not load during startup and will require