ic.unsupportCable: Detected unsupported Passive Copper 1m ID:00 cable with part number X66031A

[latent crypt]

Found this ERROR in "event log show" on both A700s nodes in HA, it has happened since at least a year ago.
Please advise, how can I find the root cause?

[obsidian wolf]

@latent crypt any luck finding an answer? I imagine Hardware Universe will tell you if your cable is truly unsupported.

[signal adder]

The PN of the SAS cable is supported on A700... maybe it's the HBA that it is connected to that does not support it? But to be honest I have never had a SAS cable be "unsuported".... plenty of DAG and SFP modules, but not SAS 😉

[fervent stream]

ic.unsupportedCable is about the HA interconnect, not about disk shelf connectivity. I honestly didn't know the A700s used SAS cables for their HA port 😄

In any case, for the HA interconnect, only the 0.5m cable is supported

wow I'd love one of those cards for my collection. proprietary interconnect on the NVRAM card 😍 anyone have a spare they wanna send over? 🙂

[signal adder]

There was some exotics back in the 7mode days... infiniband I seem to remember... a long black thick cable? 😉 And of cause the old FCVI cards which is kinda the same, just over a longer distance... But yeah apparently the 700s has MiniSAS-HD connector for HA-Cluster connections... The card is X3154A and you need this 0.5M SAS cable X66030A ... but apparently a one off card, only used in the A700s 😉