I/O device information
You can view a list of devices that are attached to certain storage subsystem controllers.
About this task
When you select the I/O Device Information menu, you’re presented with a menu of installed subsystem controllers that are supported by the utility as shown in the following examples, depending on the firmware level.
I/O Device Information
1. SAN Device Information
2. SAS Device Information
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Navigation keys:
M = return to main menu
ESC key = return to previous screen X = eXit System Management Services
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Type the number of the menu item and press Enter or Select a Navigation key: _ I/O Device Information
1. SAN
2. SAS
3. NVMe
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Navigation keys:
M = return to main menu
ESC key = return to previous screen X = eXit System Management Services
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Type the number of the menu item and press Enter or Select a Navigation key: _ I/O Device Information
1. SAN
2. SAS
3. NVMe
4. Firmware device driver Secure Boot validation failures
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Navigation keys:
M = return to main menu
ESC key = return to previous screen X = eXit System Management Services
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Type the number of the menu item and press Enter or Select a Navigation key: _ When the firmware is at a level FW950_xxx or later, you can select the SAN (storage area network) subsystem to display the following menu:
Select Fabric Type
1. FCP
2. FC NVMe over Fabric
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Navigation keys:
M = return to main menu
ESC key = return to previous screen X = eXit System Management Services
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Type the number of the menu item and press Enter or Select a Navigation key: _ When you select a fabric type or a subsystem, a list of installed subsystem controllers is displayed, similar to the following example.
Select Media Adapter
1. U9179.MHD.10057FP-V2-C3-T1 /vdevice/vfc-client@30000003
2. U9179.MHD.10057FP-V2-C4-T1 /vdevice/vfc-client@30000004
3. U9179.MHD.10057FP-V2-C5-T1 /vdevice/vfc-client@30000005
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Navigation keys:
M = return to main menu
ESC key = return to previous screen X = eXit System Management Services
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Type the number of the menu item and press Enter or Select a Navigation key: _ When you select a controller, the controller is scanned for any attached devices. If there’s an error in attempting to open the adapter, an informational SRC is logged. If the controller is successfully opened and scanned, a list of detected devices is displayed, similar to the following example.
Select Attached Device
Pathname: /vdevice/vfc-client@30000005
WorldWidePortName: c05076055a510004
1. 50050763030400bd,4000406500000000 32 GB Disk drive - bootable
2. 50050763030400bd,4005402900000000 32 GB Disk drive - reserved
3. 50050763030440bd,4000406500000000 32 GB Disk drive - bootable
4. 50050763030440bd,4005402900000000 32 GB Disk drive
5. 50050763031300bd,4000406500000000 32 GB Disk drive - bootable
6. 50050763031300bd,4005402900000000 32 GB Disk drive
7. 500507630313c0bd,4000406500000000 32 GB Disk drive - bootable
8. 500507630313c0bd,4005402900000000 32 GB Disk drive
9. 50050763032300bd,4000406500000000 32 GB Disk drive - bootable
10. 50050763032300bd,4005402900000000 32 GB Disk drive
11. 50050763032800bd,4000406500000000 32 GB Disk drive - bootable
12. 50050763032800bd,4005402900000000 32 GB Disk drive
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Navigation keys:
M = return to main menu
ESC key = return to previous screen X = eXit System Management Services
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Type the number of the menu item and press Enter or Select a Navigation key: _ The information that is shown in this menu identifies the type of devices that are available. For disk drives, an attempt is made to determine whether the drive is bootable or not. A reservation is also identified on a drive. If a reservation is identified on a drive, then the drive is unavailable for booting. This is the only SMS menu that lists a disk drive with a reservation.
If a disk drive is selected from the previous menu, a menu similar to the following example is displayed.
SAN Device Menu
Target Address: 50050763030400bd Lun Address: 4005402900000000
Pathname: /vdevice/vfc-client@30000005/disk@50050763030400bd,4005402900000000
Device: 32 GB Disk drive
1. Display Inquiry Data
2. Log Boot Status Informational SRC
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Navigation keys:
M = return to main menu
ESC key = return to previous screen X = eXit System Management Services
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Type the number of the menu item and press Enter or Select a Navigation key: _ When you select the Display Inquiry Data option, the selected drive gathers the standard inquiry data and displays it in a raw data format.
When you select the Log Boot Status Informational SRC option, the system attempts to determine whether the drive is bootable, and then will log an informational SRC.
For SAS devices, additional information for the selected device might be available and it is displayed by selecting the Display Device Details option. If the device is an array, additional details about the array and its members might be available. This is illustrated by a menu similar to the following example.
SAS Device Menu
Target Address: 34e058dc5900 Lun Address: 0
Pathname: /pci@800000020000155/pci1014,034A@0/sas/disk@34e058dc5900,0
Location Code: U78CD.001.FZH0295-P2-C5-T1-L34e058dc5900-L0
Device: SAS RAID Array
RAID Array ID: 11 Volume Set ID: 0
BUID: IBM-IPR-5 58DC5900-IBM IPR-5 58DC5900000034E0
1. Display Inquiry Data
2. Log Boot Status Informational SRC
3. Array Member Information
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Navigation keys:
M = return to main menu
ESC key = return to previous screen X = eXit System Management Services
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Type the number of the menu item and press Enter or Select a Navigation key: _ If the Array Member Information menu item is selected, a menu similar to the following example is displayed.
SAS Device Details
1. UESLS.001.G63X008-P1-D2 600000 MB Disk drive
2. UESLS.001.G63X008-P1-D4 600000 MB Disk drive
3. UESLS.001.G63X008-P1-D6 1800000 MB Disk drive
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Navigation keys:
M = return to main menu
ESC key = return to previous screen X = eXit System Management Services
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Type the number of the menu item and press Enter or Select a Navigation key: _ When one of the SAS disk drives is selected from the previous menu, a menu similar to the following is displayed.
SAS Device Details
Serial Number S41019AZ
Microcode level 680A (0x36383041)
FRU Number 00E9935
Part Number 00LY238
CCIN Number 59D2
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Navigation keys:
M = return to main menu
ESC key = return to previous screen X = eXit System Management Services
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Type the number of the menu item and press Enter or Select a Navigation key: _ NVMe Devices
For NVMe devices, information about defined namespaces might also be available. This is illustrated by a menu similar to the following example.
Select Media Adapter
1. U78D2.001.RCH0012-P1-C7 NVMe Flash Adapter
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Navigation keys:
M = return to main menu
ESC key = return to previous screen X = eXit System Management Services
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Type the number of the menu item and press Enter or Select a Navigation key: _ When an adapter is selected from the previous menu, a menu similar to the following is displayed.
NVMe Adapter Information
Model Number .................. PCIe3 1.6TB NVMe Flash Adapter II x8
Serial Number ................. S3RVNA0J300151
NVM-e Version ................. 1.2
Firmware Revision ............. MB14MB14
Firmware Device Driver Level .. 110
1. Namespace information
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Navigation keys:
M = return to main menu
ESC key = return to previous screen X = eXit System Management Services
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Type the number of the menu item and press Enter or Select a Navigation key: _ If the Namespace information menu item is selected, a menu similar to the following example is displayed.
Namespace Details
U78D2.001.RCH0012-P1-C7-L1 1490 GB Namespace - bootable
Namespace Globally Unique Identifier .............. 0x1000000413825005101304a30565233
IEEE Extended Unique Identifier ................... 0x0
Block Size ........................................ 4096
Size (blocks) ..................................... 390703446
Capacity (blocks) ................................. 390703446
Utilization (blocks) .............................. 390703446
Critical Warnings ..................................
- Available spare space below threshold
- Temperature is above over temperature or below under temperature
- Degraded NVM subsystem reliability
- Media in read only mode
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Navigation keys:
M = return to Main Menu N = Next page of list
ESC key = return to previous screen X = eXit System Management Services
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Type the number of the menu item and press Enter or Select a Navigation key: _ Advancing to the next page:
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Namespace Details
- Volatile memory backup device failed
- Unrecoginized indicators: 0xe0
Composite temperature (Fahrenheit / Celsius) ...... 109.13 / 42.85
Percentage of remaining spare capacity available .. 100%
Percentage of NVM subsystem life used ............. 0%
Data units read (1000 units of 512 bytes) ......... 0x7a1
Data units written (1000 units of 512 bytes) ...... 0x4cbf
Host read commands completed ...................... 0xa0ea
Host write commands ............................... 0x55f6c
Number of power cycles ............................ 0x31
Power-ON hours .................................... 0x6da
Media and Data Integrity Errors ................... 0x0
Number of error information log entries ........... 0x242
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Navigation keys:
M = return to Main Menu P = Previous page of list
ESC key = return to previous screen X = eXit System Management Services
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Type menu item number and press Enter or select Navigation key: _ Firmware device driver Secure Boot validation failures
When the Secure Boot setting of the logical partition is either Enabled and Log only or Enabled and Enforced, this menu displays a list of PCI devices whose firmware device driver validation has failed. This is illustrated by a menu similar to the following example.
Select PCI function to see a description of the failure
1. U78D2.001.RCH0012-P1-C49 Serial Attached Storage Controller
2. U78D2.001.RCH0012-P1-C4-T1 PCIe2 4-port 1GbE Adapter
3. U78D2.001.RCH0012-P1-C4-T2 PCIe2 4-port 1GbE Adapter
4. U78D2.001.RCH0012-P1-C4-T3 PCIe2 4-port 1GbE Adapter
5. U78D2.001.RCH0012-P1-C4-T4 PCIe2 4-port 1GbE Adapter
6. U78D2.001.RCH0012-P1-C7 PCIe3 1.6TB NVMe Flash Adapter II
7. U78D2.001.RCH0012-P1-C10-T1 PCIe2 4-Port (10GbE SFP+ & 1GbE RJ45) Adapter
8. U78D2.001.RCH0012-P1-C10-T2 PCIe2 4-Port (10GbE SFP+ & 1GbE RJ45) Adapter
9. U78D2.001.RCH0012-P1-C10-T3 PCIe2 4-Port (10GbE SFP+ & 1GbE RJ45) Adapter
10. U78D2.001.RCH0012-P1-C10-T4 PCIe2 4-Port (10GbE SFP+ & 1GbE RJ45) Adapter
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Navigation keys:
M = return to Main Menu
ESC key = return to previous screen X = eXit System Management Services
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Type menu item number and press Enter or select Navigation key: _ A menu is displayed with a description of the problem when a listed device is selected from the previous menu. The problem description is displayed as shown in the following example menu.
Secure Boot validation problem description
The validation of the firmware device driver in the ROM image for the PCI
function failed. Recovery from this problem most often requires a microcode
refresh or an update to the most recent version.
If the Secure Boot setting is Enabled and Enforced, this must be corrected
for the PCI function to be a candidate for booting an operating system.
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Navigation keys:
M = return to Main Menu
ESC key = return to previous screen X = eXit System Management Services
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Type menu item number and press Enter or select Navigation key: _