Thanks to:
Dave Golden <golden_at_invincible.com>
For some weird reason I didn't receive his message (dated 2 weeks ago)
until the weekend - my server wasn't forwarding mail to me correctly..
>> Now I have information to point to a possible hardware fault, and that
>> where I believe
>> the problem lies at this stage (it came pre-built from Digital). Without
>> opening anything
>> up, I'm hazarding a guess at a KZPSA with either the internal termination
>> on (although
>> the console reports it isn't) or a defect of some sort. An engineer will
>> be out to verify
>> the hardware today.
>
>It doesn't sound like hardware to me. I would re-install ASE and
>recreate your services. Note -- ASE doesn't like it if you change
>IP addresses, hostnames, etc. after you set it up. You also have to
>make sure that all your service info is in both host files.
It turned out to be simpler than that:
The machine came with UTP<->UTP cards for the private network, with a
crossover cable which works great when the power is on to a machine..turn
the power off or reboot or halt -> bye bye network.
Seeing as the machine came prebuilt from Digital, I didn't question it. I
rang the VAR we use, and mentioned it, and straight away their top guy said
that was the problem, they replaced the cards and it went fine. It looks
like somewhere along the way someone forgot it was for an ASE environment.
Switched to thin-wire and everything's fine.
On the issue of SCSI errors, that is still being looked into.
regards,
gunther
Received on Tue Jun 03 1997 - 15:50:52 NZST