Running HP vendor supplied command 'hpacucli', frequently shows "blocks=XX, block_size=XX, heads=XX, sectors=XX, cylinders=XX" messages in logs.
Issue
- Whenever the command hpacucli is run, messages similar to the following are seen in
/var/log/messages
:
kernel: kernel: blocks= 286677120 block_size= 512 kernel: heads= 255, sectors= 32, cylinders= 35132
- These messages confuse some third party log monitoring tools, which falsely report hardware problems as result.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.4 or 5.5
- HP hardware (cciss storage controller)
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