Although this was a hardware related problem, I had posted this question
to this group. Sorry for the trouble.
I thank Compaq Bangalore, and Saulo Murguia for their suggestion.
After running the build -s command, the problem was fixed.
>From: Jagadeesh V <jv_at_blr.cmc.net.in>
>To: TRU64 UNIX MANAGERS <tru64-unix-managers_at_ornl.gov>
>Subject: AS 8400 problem...
>Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 16:38:38 +0000 (CUT)
>
>
>We have an AlphaServer8400 with dual-processors. It comes to the console
>prompt and doesnot boot. At console prompt, the error displayed is
>
>"WHO_R_YOU mailbox failed on configured hose port 0
>.
>.
>.
>*** Errors during power up, check event log ***"
>
>In the self-test ST3, the KFTIA module in slot-8 is reported to be
>failing. The show config justs displays
>
>-----------------------------------------------------------
>P00>>> show config
> Name Type Rev Mnemonic
>TLSB
>0++ KN7CC-AB 8014 0000 kn7cc-ab0
>7+ MS7CC 5000 0000 ms7cc0
>8- KFTHA 2000 0000 kftha0
>
>C1 PCI connected to kftha0 pci0
>------------------------------------------------------------
>
>Actually, we have a KFTIA module in the slot-8. But the system is
>identifying it as a KFTHA module.
>
>The show dev command just comes back to the srm prompt.
>P00>>> show dev
>P00>>>
>
>
>The error log displays three main errors:
>*** Hard Error - Error #1 Mailbox transaction error ***
>..
>..
>
>*** Hard Error - Error #2 Data compare error ***
>..
>..
>
>*** Hard Error - Error #3 Data compare error ***
>..
>..
>
>with a long list of numbers & alphabets for each error. All errors say
>that tiop_diag fails on device kftha0.
>
>But, my fundamental doubt is that there is no KFTHA card in the system.
>
>Now, is the KFTIA card really bad ? or the CPU is bad to recognise it as
>KFTHA ? or should we do some settings/changes in environment-parameters or
>in srm console ?
>
>Any info about this problem will be of great help for us.
>
>Thanks in advance.
Received on Fri Feb 25 2000 - 10:58:30 NZDT