My initial problem was that my LX164 machine was randomly hanging for some
reason. I thought it was an SCSI related problem as those were the only
components I haven't yet replaced.
Thanks go to:
Russell G Auld <rauld_at_grove.ufl.edu>
who pointed out that the problem could actually be a bad SCSI cabling resp.
termination and added that I should check whether the terminator is ACTIVE
or not as ACTIVE ones tend to be more reliable.
I replaced the storage hardware, SCSI cabling and terminators to go for sure
that this can't be the source of problem.
The I installed tru64 in order to check whether it could be related to the
software we're using and tru64 enlighted me with the fact that the reason
for the hangs was a defect memory module as it stopped at boot-time with a
memory-access-error after adding the remaining 2 DIMMs after installation:
...
trap: invalid memory read access from kernel mode
faulting virtual address: 0x0000000000000018
pc of faulting instruction: 0xfffffc00005cf43c
ra contents at time of fault: 0xfffffc00005a2b5c
sp contents at time of fault: 0xfffffe04141679c0
panic (cpu 0): kernel memory fault
...
Although SCSI doesn't seem to be related now I want to thank Russell again
for providing me with this valuable info!
cheers,
Horst Reiterer
Received on Fri Feb 25 2000 - 14:00:15 NZDT