OMSA RAID issue after RHEL3u8 kernel update

[Ben]

Hi All,

I have a number of PowerEdge 2650/1750/1850/2850 servers running RHEL3u8 and 
OMSA as installed from OMI-SrvAdmin-Dell-Web-LX-450-32-335_A00.tar.gz with 
the new kernel 2.4.21-47.ELsmp.  Following the running of up2date -uf and 
reboot on two of the 2850s I saw this in /var/log/messages:

Jul 25 16:49:57 simak kernel: dcdbas: Dell Systems Management Base Driver (version 5.6.0-1)
Jul 25 16:49:57 simak instsvcdrv: dcdbas device driver loaded
Jul 25 16:50:01 simak modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-252
Jul 25 16:50:01 simak modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-252
Jul 25 16:50:02 simak dataeng: dcstor32d startup succeeded
Jul 25 16:50:03 simak Server Administrator: Instrumentation Service EventID: 1000  Server Administrator starting
Jul 25 16:50:03 simak Server Administrator: Instrumentation Service EventID: 1005  SMBIOS data is absent
Jul 25 16:50:03 simak Server Administrator: Instrumentation Service EventID: 1001  Server Administrator startup complete
Jul 25 16:50:03 simak dataeng: dcevt32d startup succeeded
Jul 25 16:50:03 simak dataeng: dcsnmp32d startup succeeded

and the following:

[root at simak root]# omreport storage vdisk controller=0
Virtual Disk 0 on Controller PERC 4e/Di (Not Available)

Controller PERC 4e/Di (Not Available)	<- Should read "(Embedded)"
ID           : 0
Status       : Ok
Name         : Virtual Disk 0
State        : Ready
Progress     : Not Applicable
Layout       : RAID-1
Size         : 68.24 GB (73274490880 bytes)
Device Name  : /dev/sda
Read Policy  : Adaptive Read Ahead
Write Policy : Write Back
Cache Policy : Direct I/O
Stripe Size  : 64 KB

[root at simak srvadmin]# omreport storage controller
  Controller  PERC 4e/Di (Not Available)

Controllers
ID                                : 0
Status                            : Ok
Name                              : PERC 4e/Di
Slot ID                           : Slot Not Available
State                             : Ready
Firmware Version                  : 521S
Driver Version                    : Not Applicable
Minimum Required Firmware Version : Not Applicable
Minimum Required Driver Version   : Not Applicable
Number of Channels                : 2
Rebuild Rate                      : 50%
Alarm State                       : Not Applicable
Cluster Mode                      : Not Applicable
SCSI Initiator ID                 : 7

According to other identical machines not upgraded "(Not Available)" should 
read "(Embedded)" and there's a lot of information now "Not Applicable".  So 
for some reason OMSA doesn't seem to recognise/isn't able to access the 
embedded controller fully any more.

Given this all worked pre-kernel update I'm assuming something's gone screwy 
somewhere.  Does anyone have any ideas what else I should be looking for/how 
I might go about fixing things?  I'm not really keen on upgrading to OMSA 
5.0 at the moment with so many other things in flux but a reinstall of 4.5 
is fine.

Any help would be much appreciated.  Thank you.

Ben
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