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AFF A300 FC Ports don't come up after reseat

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Applies to

  • AFF A300
  • ONTAP 9

Issue

  • After reseating the node, Fibre Channel ports are not coming up properly per EMS logs:

[Node-01: isp2400_asyncd_0: fci.adapter.link.online:info]: Fibre Channel adapter 0 link online.
[Node-01: isp2400_intrd: fci.nserr.noDevices:error]: The Fibre Channel fabric attached to adapter 0 reports the presence of no Fibre Channel devices

  • FC adapter not showing proper port, different firmware rev than before the reseat, and switch info not appearing:

Before:

slot 0: Fibre Channel Target Host Adapter 0e
(QLogic 8324 (8362) rev. 2, <ONLINE>)
Firmware rev: 8.9.0
Flash rev: 5.0.2
(...)
Switch Port: FC-Switch1:0

After: 


slot 0: FC Host Adapter 0 (QLogic 8324 rev. 2, N-port, <UP>)
Firmware rev: 8.9.1
Flash rev: 5.0.2
(...)
Switch Port: ??

  • In the console logs while booting, we see the following:

BIOS POST Failure(s) detected: PCIe device missing error detected. Abort AUTOBOOT

 

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