StorEdge PCI FC-100 Host Adapter Restriction

Do not reformat disk drives for a disk array that is connected to a PCI FC-100 Host Adapter.

The current ifp driver does not handle operations that take longer than 93 minutes to complete, which is less time than it takes to format 9 Gbyte and higher capacity disk drives.Under these circumstances, the format command will timeout before completion and label the disk drive unformatted. The disk drive will become unusable. It is usually unnecessary to reformat StorEdge A5000 disk drives. Sun disk drives arrive formatted and labelled.A fix for the timeout problem is in progress. This document will be updated once a fix becomes available.