All...
Thanks to all who helped me Thursday evening with our 8400 crash problems.
I did post this just before I went home (early hours of Friday morning) -
however it didnt go thru & I have just seen the rejection.
If anybody has an opionion on the firmware level I'd appreciate hearing from
you.
I will summarise both postings together when I get the problem resolved.
Thanks - Tony
Ok... Its 04:10am 18/2/00. A bit of an update is called for I think.
By a process of elimination, we established that all 4 memory boards (2 x
2gb & 2 x 4gb) are good (we suspected that due to the crashes we were seeing
that memory may be a problem).
We then suspected possibly a processor problem.
However, what we actually did next was to disable (via the switches on the
EMC array) ALL of the EMC output busses. Bingo - genvmunix boots multi user
straight off. LSM starts and all the devices come up, everything is mounted
etc.
We then did a standard 'doconfig' and generated a new kernel config file.
Copied the new kernel to /vmunix and did a full reboot. Again - system has
come straight up - no problems at all. We now have robot support so the HSM
part of our application is a happy bunny.
We have decided to do no further work for a few days to get stability back.
We will then do some fault finding specific to the EMC and the KZPBA-CB's
which they connect to.
This system is running console firmware v5.1. This is pretty old I know.
Is anybody aware of any issues with this version supporting KZPBA-CB's (we
were formerly running only KZPSA's).
Many thanks for your help.
regards - Tony
Received on Mon Feb 21 2000 - 08:58:25 NZDT