topic Re: Scanning the systems hardware... in Operating System - HP-UX

Scanning the systems hardware...

Frank Schwerdtfeger_1 — Mon, 03 Jun 2002 11:25:33 GMT

When I start sam and select disks / filesystems, the systems scans the hardware-> Msg: "Scanning the system's hardware...", but I got no response. I killed the process after about 1 hour!

Thanks for help
Frank

Re: Scanning the systems hardware...

Rita C Workman — Mon, 03 Jun 2002 11:28:34 GMT

Have you tried simply doing a:
ioscan -fn > ioscan.all ??

See if this takes too long.
Just to narrow down if the the problem is scanning the hardware or simply something in SAM..

Rgrds,
Rita

Re: Scanning the systems hardware...

Paula J Frazer-Campbell — Mon, 03 Jun 2002 11:36:34 GMT

Frank

This can happen if a device is failing to respond, try Rita's suggestion, also have a look at your EMS logs and /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log.

HTH

Paula

Re: Scanning the systems hardware...

Bill McNAMARA_1 — Mon, 03 Jun 2002 11:38:18 GMT

Try stopping and restarting diagnostics :(/sbin/init.d/diagnostic [stop|start])

However, you probably have ioscans blocking further processing processing.

ioscan -fnk > /tmp/fnk

and see if any hardware is in a state of SCAN

If it is there are some ioscan processes that didn't complete. You can try either to wait for the ioscan to finish or kill it.

ioscan -fn will run another real ioscan whereas the -fnk option will be unobtrusive and give a kernel representation.

multiple ioscans -fn will cause problems.. so be careful when you run them, as other apps may also.

Good Luck,
Bill

Re: Scanning the systems hardware...

Frank Schwerdtfeger_1 — Mon, 03 Jun 2002 11:50:21 GMT

Re: Scanning the systems hardware...

Frank Schwerdtfeger_1 — Mon, 03 Jun 2002 11:51:28 GMT

Ok

after i eject cdrom and tape ioscan works with no problems

Cherrs
Frank

Re: Scanning the systems hardware...

Paula J Frazer-Campbell — Mon, 03 Jun 2002 13:01:39 GMT

Frank

I would suspect the CD rom first of causing this slow ioscan.

Was the CD mounted when you did an ioscan?

Paula