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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

2071.0. "DEF6X-MA / DEFPA-UA" by 12368::"[email protected]" (Graeme Wilkinson) Sat Jun 22 1996 18:31

I have a customer with two Prioris HX servers, 5133 & 5166 running
Netware 4.1 with 250+ users.
Recently they have installed a DEFPA-UA (PCI TPFDDI adapter).
Since then they have had several problems:-
1. "ABEND" processor exception error page fault under load
2. user session suspend and total server crash under load.

Servers can run at 100% CPU utilisation frequently
Legatto backup over the network also causes crash.
None of these problems occur when we de-grade the network adapter
back to 10BaseT.

Anyone know of problems with the Network kit (adapter/900MX) with
Netware?

regards

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2071.1Coorection12368::"[email protected]"graeme wilkinsonSat Jun 22 1996 23:388
Sorry to those of you reading this conference, I am a new user!
I incorrectly entered my own Email address in this note.
Not knowing to reply (as I have here) to my own note with a 
correction, I have posted this problem twice.

please forgive!

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2071.2NETCAD::STEFANIMon Jun 24 1996 08:5024
    >>Legatto backup over the network also causes crash.
    
    If the user is seeing an ABEND when performing backup, we might have
    already addressed the problem in our latest driver.  Please ask your
    customer to install:
    
    	MSM.NLM v2.50
    	FDDITSM.NLM v2.50
    	DEFPA.LAN v2.80
    
    All three files are found in the latest DEFPA release kit (v2.70).  The
    kit is available in all of our electronic distribution sites.  The kit
    can be located on the Easynet at:
    
    	NETCAD::PCDRIVERS:[FDDI.DEFPA.RELEASE]FPKIT270.ZIP
    
>>Anyone know of problems with the Network kit (adapter/900MX) with
>>Netware?
    
    Since this seems to be isolated to the end node, let's ignore the 900MX
    for now.  It's extremely unlikely that the concentrator is involved in
    this failure.
    
    - Larry
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12368::"[email protected]" "Graeme W" 22 lines  22-JUN-1996 21:34
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I have a customer with two Prioris HX servers, 5133 & 5166 running
Netware 4.1 with 250+ users.
Recently they have installed a DEFPA-UA (PCI TPFDDI adapter).
Since then they have had several problems:-
1. "ABEND" processor exception error page fault under load
2. user session suspend and total server crash under load.

Servers can run at 100% CPU utilisation frequently
Legatto backup over the network also causes crash.
None of these problems occur when we de-grade the network adapter
back to 10BaseT.

The "ABEND" problem seems to have been corrected (or masked??) with
an initialisation string...I will find out from the engineer exactly
what it was.

Anyone know of problems with the Network kit (adapter/900MX) with
Netware?

regards

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