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the utility is “hung” since no indications of what is actually happening are
present.
To check if the utility is still in startup or shutdown mode, you can put your
cursor in the bar at the top of your window. If the utility is still active, then the
cursor will change to an hour glass. This problem will be corrected in a future
release of the ACU-XE utility.
• With cpqim310 installed, if you try to resize the windows between the disks
(middle pane) and the detailed info (right pane), the data goes away and both
panes turn dark brown/grey. A Netscape reload brings the data back. This
issue will be fixed in a future release of Netscape for the Tru64 UNIX.
• Critical errors on the Smart Array 5300A controllers are accompanied by red
status messages within the Array Configuration Utility. The last statement in
each of these messages, "For more information, run the Array Diagnostics
Utility.", should be disregarded. Please use Compaq Analyze to obtain further
information about the reported errors.
• When a condition occurs, such as a hardware fault, there may be data that
needs to be flushed from cache.To perform the actual cache flush, run the
BIOS from the SRM console on the affected controller.
Firmware Issues and Restrictions
• The maximum possible number of logical drives that can be configured on a
Smart Array 5300A controller is thirty two.
• Logical volume capacity extension is not supported.
• The maximum logical volume size supported by the firmware is 2 Terabytes.
• If a Hot Spare has replaced a failed physical drive within a redundant array,
the ACU-XE may show a logical volume having another volume below with
"???" as the spare capacity. Replacing the failed drive will cause the array to
return to the original configuration.
• In the event of a SCSI bus failure, all logical devices on this bus might become
failed. There is a way these devices can be made available to the user (data
integrity cannot be guaranteed, however). You have to shutdown your Alpha
Server and run BIOS on the controller housing these devices, i.e:
>>run bios pya0
Release Notes – Smart Array 5300A Backplane RAID Controllers 13