This morning we shutted down one of our alphas to do some maintenance. It
was quietly resting at the console prompt since 4-5 hours when the screen
suddenly turned black and then it kinda rebooted asa if someone has pressed
the reset switch... All we were doing at this time was playing with the
HSZ40 connected to this server
Here is what happens:
Loop ad nauseum
screen turns black
screen turns blue, lots of messages concerning ECC memory corrections
testing memory...
memory OK
testing disks...
end loop
Any idea ?
Looks like our HSZ40 was causing the problem. The other machine connected to
the HSZ40 jammed totally, in the middle of a fileset copy with
vdump/vrestore. We had no other choice other than reboot that machine. At
the moment the freez happenned, the HSZ40 was normalizing a freshly created
mirrorset and the other server was copying a fileset to the new mirror AT
THE SAME TIME. Maybe that was too much for the HSZ40 to handle.
While the 2 machines were hung, I resetted both HSZ40 controllers, could
this have destoyed data somewhere on the disks ? How can I make sure that
everything is OK ?
Guy Dallaire
dallaire_at_total.net
"God only knows if god exists"
Received on Sat Feb 08 1997 - 22:06:51 NZDT