Got it. It must be something new (because RHEL 4.6 is relatively new)
and that's why I haven't seen it yet. My servers are still running
RHEL 4.5.
Good to know though!

;-)

On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 11:02 PM, Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU <zforray AT vcu DOT edu> 
wrote:
> Will check on newer drivers, but since this has been a problem since way
>  back and occurs on all 4-servers, I suspect the API.
>
>  FWIW, here are instructions we found from qlogic:
>
>  4.4 Installing on RHEL 4.x
>  In addition to installing the SNIA API library, RHEL4.x users must load an
>  additional kernel module, then set the system to load the module
>  automatically at boot time. For details, see the following sections:
>  4.4.1 Load Additional Kernel Module Manually
>  4.4.2 Load Module Automatically at Boot Time
>  4.4.1 Load Additional Kernel Module Manually
>  You must load an additional kernel module before using the API library on
>  RHEL 4 Update 6 and above distributions. To load this module, enter the
>  following commands:
>  # modprobe qioctlmod
>  # lsmod | grep qioctlmod (should show the loaded module)
>  4.4.2 Load Module Automatically at Boot Time
>  To set your system to load the qioctlmod kernel module automatically
>  during system boot, run the following commands:
>  # echo modprobe qioctlmod >> /etc/rc.modules
>  # chmod +x /etc/rc.modules
>
>



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Michael Green