Summary,
Thanks to V.S. Glukhov whose suggestion of checking every connection on the SCSI
bus I will carry out on Monday.
Thanks also to Knut Hellebų, John Becker, Tom Blinn and whoever is behind
noghri_at_nauticom.net.
Suggestions were to use various diagnostic tools:
/usr/sbin/uerf -R ( which I didn't know about )
/usr/sbin/dia -R ( which I can't find as part of 4.0f seems to be only v5.0)
Had already checked syslog's, /var/adm/crashes and messages files.
Nothing shows up.
Gareth.
Original Question:
> Hello managers,
>
> I have a problem with a dec alpha 255 which I recently upgraded to 4.0f,
> installed the Patch Kit. Firmware version 5.5 revision 6.6.
>
> The machine was working OK a while ago with an HP DAT drive and a Quantum
> DLT drive and L200 Powerstore 8 tape autoloader attached to it.
> I would very occasionally get a system crash during a back up to the DLT.
>
> I recently re-installed the operating system to implement recommendations
> from the sys_check utility.
>
> Now I find that the system crashes every time I try to do a back-up using
> either of the tape drives. This morning it seems to have crashed for
> no reason at all. I can't find any information anywhere about the crash.
>
> Does anyone have any idea where I might start looking for the problem.
>
> Gareth.
>
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Received on Fri Dec 03 1999 - 18:32:25 NZDT