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I am connecting a McData Eclipse 1620 to a Cisco MDS 9140, at the moment I connect the McData to a FC port in the MDS switch, The MDS port status changes to "Hardware Failure", once the port is in this state it is not possible to shut it down nor do ...
I have tested the 5420 in iSCSI routing and iSCSI transparent routing mode and I have some question regarding security:a) about WWPns.Is it possible to determine what WWPN will be assigned to a given IP host when it connects to the AS6420?, it seem...
At this point I think the "Hardware failure" problem is beyond an on-the-field solution as it looks more like a hardware issue rather than software, I will ask Cisco to open a TAC case.Cheers!M
Colin,Thanks for the link, I checked it out, but it seems the "Hardware failure" message is a dead end, most of the diags (including the external loopback test) fail.I borrowed a MDS9216 from Cisco for testing, but I cannot recreate the problem, I ne...
Stephen,Yes, the problem only occurs when I plug the McData box, the MDS ports goes into the "initializing" phase and then changes to "Hardware Failure", after this the port is useless until you reboot the MDS.Cheers!
