| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 556.1 | | POBOXB::BAK | | Wed Apr 02 1997 11:04 | 1 |
| Did you check to make sure the current share cable is installed?
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| 556.2 | SHARE CABLE | MAASUP::SIERAKOWSKI | | Wed Apr 02 1997 11:10 | 1 |
| YES THE CURRENT SHARE CABLE IS INSTALLED
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| 556.3 | tried but not reproduced here | AFW4::SAVAGE | | Wed Apr 02 1997 19:16 | 14 |
| Hi,
I checked out one of our systems here (PKO) to see if I could reproduce
the failure you have seen. No problems were seen using console version
V4.8-6 and testing with both Digital UNIX V3.2G and V4.0B. Pulling
the plug from either power supply would record a CPU exception error in
the error log. Checking the show power command under console yielded the
expected results as well: power supply failures when power removed and
then normal with power restored. The configuration differed from your
customer's system (kzpsc-xa, 466MHz CPUs, less memory) but was told
this would not matter w.r.t. the power.
Perhaps the error log info. can give you more clues on the failure.
Posting the error log may help others to give you some more input on this
problem.
-Phyllis
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| 556.4 | | MAY30::CUMMINS | | Mon Apr 07 1997 13:27 | 6 |
| For other readers out there..
The base noter neglected to mention that VMS doesn't crash when
removing N+1 power and that UNIX only does after 10 or more attempts.
The intermittent crashing when N+1 is removed under UNIX is being
investigated.
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| 556.5 | problem isolated to PALcode | MAY21::SAVAGE | | Tue Apr 22 1997 20:09 | 6 |
|
The problem has been isolated to a failure in the PALcode to properly
restore register R1 after an environemental failure (i.e. power supply,
fan or temp. failure). A fixed version of console will be built and
posted to the WWW when available.
-Phyllis
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| 556.6 | PALcode fix V4.8-7 console | MAY21::SAVAGE | | Fri May 16 1997 11:05 | 54 |
|
The AlphaServer 4100 console image files, that include corrected PALcode
to properly restore register R1 after an environmental failure (power
supply, fan, or temperature failure) are available from the Alpha firmware
interim World Wide Website.
The files may be accessed via the following URL:
http://ftp.digital.com/pub/Digital/Alpha/firmware/interim/as4x00
Attached below is the 00readme.txt file found at that location. Please
note the modified instructions for creating an update floppy diskette.
-Phyllis
This /as4x00 interim directory contains the SRM console V4.8-7 files. These
V4.8-7 files supercede the previous interim release (V4.8-6) and the V4.8-5
files found on the Alpha Systems Firmware Update V3.9 CD and also located in
the /v3.9/as4x00 Web directory.
The V4.8-7 is an interim release, prior to the next Alpha Systems Firmware
Update CD/ROM, to correct a PALcode problem exhibited under environmental
failures: power supply, fan and temperature failures. The V4.8-7 code does
include the previous interim release console (V4.8-6) changes.
Caution:
The Release notes instructions in Chapter 2, Updating Using a FAT-Formatted
Floppy Diskette, lists copying as4x00 .txt files (as4x00cp, as4x00fw,
as4x00io) to floppy diskettes. Creating floppy diskettes using .txt files
that were saved/copied via a Web Browser will NOT work. To avoid this
problem, when copying files from the Web site, use the .sys files. The
console release notes instructions (example below) will be changed to
reflect this update information.
Updating Using a FAT-Formatted Floppy Diskette
o Insert a 1.44MB FAT-formatted diskette in your floppy drive.
o Copy the following files to diskette #1:
as4x00cp.sys
as4x00fw.sys
rhreadme.sys
rhsrmrom.sys
rharcrom.sys
o Copy the following files to diskette #2 if you'll be updating I/O
option firmware:
as4x00io.sys
rhreadme.sys
cipca315.sys
dfxaa310.sys
kzpsaa10.sys
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| 556.7 | Dunix PALcode fix V4.8-7 console | CSC32::HUTMACHER | | Mon May 19 1997 12:06 | 19 |
| Thanks Phyllis
we pulled the new SRM console code V4.8-7 from
http://ftp.digital.com/pub/Digital/Alpha/firmware/interim/as4x00
and installed it on the csc lab machine which would do a kernal memory
fault panic on repetitive power failures (3-20 times) in a dual/tri
reduntant power mode.
with the new srm console installed dunix no longer paniced with more
the 100 repetitive power failures.
i do not Recommend this kind of testing on your 4100/4000 machine but
we had site that reguired this survival testing to work.
very obscure problem, thanks engring for finding and correcting the
problem
now Dunix does run as advertised in dual/tri reduntant power modes.
jim hutmacher mvhs colorado csc 800-354-9000 ext 25561
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