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Conference 7.286::fddi

Title:FDDI - The Next Generation
Moderator:NETCAD::STEFANI
Created:Thu Apr 27 1989
Last Modified:Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:2259
Total number of notes:8590

1885.0. "demfa FATAL HARDWARE INTERNAL ERROR on AXP VMS V6.2" by IAMOSI::LEUNG (Dennis Leung, Sydney CSC) Wed Nov 29 1995 23:31

Cluster of 2 AXP 8400, SYD1 and SYD2
AXP VMS V6.2

Intermittently, all lat users get logged out and at the same time thers is a
decnet line synchronization. Problem happens only on SYD2. SYD2 does NOT crash
and users can log back in immediately afterwards.
SYD1 is fine. customer says that there is more load on SYD2 than SYD1. 

DEMFA has been replaced on Tuesday night on SYD2 and we are waiting to see if
problem happens again.
Problem may be similar to note 1541 and 1789.

Thanks
Dennis

 ******************************* ENTRY     851. *******************************
 ERROR SEQUENCE 1043.                            LOGGED ON:  CPU_TYPE 00000005
 DATE/TIME 17-NOV-1995 15:12:01.74                            SYS_TYPE 0000000C
 SYSTEM UPTIME: 5 DAYS 22:30:56
 SCS NODE: SYD2                                             OpenVMS AXP V6.2

 HW_MODEL: 0000044B Hardware Model = 1099.

 DEVICE ATTENTION AlphaServer 8400 Model 5/300

 DEMFA SUB-SYSTEM, SYD2$FXA0:
 ERROR TYPE CODE #8.,   ERROR SUBTYPE CODE #35.

       XDEV REG        05200823
                                       DEVICE TYPE = 0823(X)
                                       FIRMWARE REV = 20(X)
                                       HARDWARE REV = 05(X)
       PORT STATUS REG 000F200D
                                       HALTED STATE
                                       LED STATE = 04(X)
                                       FATAL HARDWARE INTERNAL ERROR
                                       FDDI RING AVAILABLE
       XPUD REG        80000018
       RESET COUNT         0000
       FIRMWARE REV          20
       ERROR REASON          03
       TIME STAMP  01B60000C900
                                       14. HRS, 17. MINS, 36. SECS
       WRITE COUNT         0007
       MSGID           00000203
       USRDEF0         01200000
       USRDEF1         00000008
       USRDEF2         00000001
       PARICR          00000000
       PMCCSR0         22002003
                                       REM ENABLE
                                       REM FREEZE
                                       RMC DISCARD XMT-WRITE TRANSAC.
                                       MEMORY MANAGEMENT ENABLE
       PMCCSR1         02587F00
       PMCCSR2         01200000
                                       MASK AM DEST PKT DISC INTRRPT
                                       MASK HOST DEST PKT DISC INTRPT
       PMCCSR3         00000000
       ESP ERROR REG   00000008
                                       RECEIVE FORMAT ERROR
       XBE             0000004A
       XFADR           0AE42520
       XFAER           7801FFFF
       XPUD REG        80000018
                                       SELF-TEST COMPLETE
                                       NORMAL MODE
                                       NO FRU FAILURE
       GPCSR           00000400
                                       CLEAR OWNERSHIP ENABLED
       INTCSR1         00000000
       INTCSR2         00000400
       AMIR            00000001
                                       ESP ERR REG BITS ARE SET
       VBR             00200000
       CAAR            0000000C
       CACR            00000001
       DFC             00000007
       SFC             00000007

       UCB$L_ERTCNT    00010005
                                       5. RETRIES REMAINING
       UCB$L_ERTMAX    00000007
                                       7. RETRIES ALLOWABLE
       UCB$L_CHAR      0C442000
                                       NETWORK
                                       AVAILABLE
                                       ERROR LOGGING
                                       CAPABLE OF INPUT
                                       CAPABLE OF OUTPUT
       UCB$L_STS       00002010
                                       ONLINE
       UCB$L_ERRCNT    00000003
                                       3. ERRORS THIS UNIT


Error log on another occurence of problem :

 ******************************* ENTRY    1307. *******************************
 ERROR SEQUENCE 1378.                            LOGGED ON:  CPU_TYPE 00000005
 DATE/TIME 28-NOV-1995 12:52:15.66                            SYS_TYPE 0000000C
 SYSTEM UPTIME: 7 DAYS 16:06:33
 SCS NODE: SYD2                                             OpenVMS AXP V6.2

 HW_MODEL: 0000044B Hardware Model = 1099.

 DEVICE ATTENTION AlphaServer 8400 Model 5/300

 DEMFA SUB-SYSTEM, SYD2$FXA0:
 ERROR TYPE CODE #8.,   ERROR SUBTYPE CODE #35.

       XDEV REG        05200823
                                       DEVICE TYPE = 0823(X)
                                       FIRMWARE REV = 20(X)
                                       HARDWARE REV = 05(X)
       PORT STATUS REG 000F2005
                                       HALTED STATE
                                       LED STATE = 04(X)
                                       FATAL HARDWARE INTERNAL ERROR
       XPUD REG        80000018
       RESET COUNT         0000
       FIRMWARE REV          20
       ERROR REASON          05
       TIME STAMP  00F000004700
                                       5. HRS, 2. MINS, 56. SECS
       WRITE COUNT         000A
       MSGID           0000F015
       USRDEF0   AX    00000000
                                       0. RETRIES ALLOWABLE
       UCB$L_CHAR      0C442000
                                       NETWORK
                                       AVAILABLE
                                       ERROR LOGGING
                                       CAPABLE OF INPUT
                                       CAPABLE OF OUTPUT
       UCB                              ONLINE
       UCB$L_ERRCNT    00000006
                                       6. ERRORS THIS UNIT
T.RTitleUserPersonal
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1885.1IAMOSI::LEUNGDennis Leung, Sydney CSCWed Nov 29 1995 23:3610
forgot to add image ident. of fxdriver :

                image name: "SYS$FXDRIVER"
                image file identification: "X-3"
                image file build identification: "X61Q-SSB-0000"
                link date/time:  4-MAY-1995 23:00:03.89
                linker identification: "A11-12"


Dennis
1885.2STAR::STOCKDALEFri Dec 01 1995 13:073
Downgrading the DEMFA firmware to 1.4 should cure the problem.

- Dick
1885.3DEMFA firmware downgraded to V1.4IAMOSI::LEUNGDennis Leung, Sydney CSCTue Dec 05 1995 18:0310
Re : .2

We have downgraded the firmware of the DEMFA on SYD2 to V1.4 last Friday and
will monitor.

Found out that system SYD1 DEMFA's firmware has been V1.4 all along and that's
probably why the problem has not happened on it.

Thanks
Dennis