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Article Number: 000138210


H700 - I2C cannot find idle bus

Article Content


Symptoms

 

 

Issue:

 

Battery shown in state failed by monitoring software.  OpenManage Server Administrator CLI shows battery state = failed / battery status = critical. RAID controller log of PERC H700 shows several of the following lines:

 

 

Solution:

 

I2C messages in the controller log refer to internal communication (to iDRAC for example) on the SMbus.  These messages can be ignored. 

 

 

Additional Information:

 

I2C 1 reset

I2C 1 cannot find idle bus!

I2C b PID 1 TIMEOUT!

I2C 1 reset

 

SLN164039_en_US__11351094504300.1

 

 

I2C messages in the controller log refer to internal communication (to iDRAC for example) on the SMbus.  These messages can be ignored. 

 

 

Article Properties


Affected Product

Servers, PowerEdge

Last Published Date

21 Feb 2021

Version

3

Article Type

Solution