NEC 5800/320MA manual Troubleshooting Optical Fibre Channel PCI Adapters

Troubleshooting Optical Fibre Channel PCI Adapters

Troubleshooting Optical Fibre Channel PCI Adapters

To troubleshoot an optical Fibre Channel PCI adapter, you can perform general troubleshooting procedures for the system and procedures specific to the optical Fibre Channel PCI adapter.

For information about general procedures for troubleshooting your system, see the operation and maintenance guide for your system, as listed in Table 1-2, and the Express5800/320Ma: System Administrator’s Guide. General procedures include viewing the status of system components in ftSMC and checking for error messages in the event logs.

To troubleshoot optical Fibre Channel PCI adapters specifically, do the following:

•Make sure that the optical Fibre Channel cable from the PCI adapter to the disk drive is properly connected. For information about the optical Fibre Channel cable, see “Cabling Requirements of Optical Fibre Channel PCI Adapters” on page 3-.5If the problem persists when the cable is properly attached, replace the cable. If replacing the cable does not fix the problem, contact NEC Technical Support or your authorized Service Representative.

•Examine the status LED for each PCI slot and the LEDs on each optical Fibre Channel PCI adapter.

For more information about interpreting the PCI slot LEDs, see the operation and maintenance guide for your system, as listed in Table 1-2.

Each optical Fibre Channel PCI adapter contains two status LEDs (see Figure 3-1). For descriptions of these LEDs, see Table 3-3.

Table 3-3. Status LEDs on the Optical Fibre Channel PCI Adapter

Green	Amber	Meaning
On	On	The adapter is powering up but is not yet operational.
On	Off	The adapter is operational: it has power and the
		firmware is loaded.
Off	On	The adapter has a signal.
Off	Flashing	Loss of synchronization; connection is not operational.
Flashing	Flashing	Firmware error.

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