System

Cisco Nexus 7000 Series

Software Versions 

Release 6.2.8

Issue

3rd Party SFP/SFP+ reported as "Unsupported Transceiver"

Description

This bug is appears if bytes 7, 8 and 9 are programmed with any non-zero number.

To verify to see if you are having the same issue open the CLI and type: 

sh hard int transceiver ins 0 sprom raw

This will be displayed:

-------

| Get sprom/dom data for XCVR_USD Driver

SPROM in raw format:
-------------------

Comment                                Addr   Value
-------                                ----   -----
Identifier                                0     03
Ext. Identifier                           1     04
Connector Type                            2     07
10G Ethernet Compliance Code              3     00
ESCON/SONET Compliance Code               4     00 00
Ethernet Compliance Code                  6     00
Transceiver (Fibre Channel)               7     40 >>>>> Having 7,8 and 9th bytes programmed with any non-zero number will result in this bug.
Transceiver (Fibre Channel)               8     40
Transceiver (Fibre Channel)               9     0c
Transceiver (Fibre Channel)              10     80

Solution

This bug is not seen in any other releases. We recommend upgrading to release 6.2.10 where it has been fixed

 

Sources

https://quickview.cloudapps.cisco.com/quickview/bug/CSCuo51846