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Conference netcad::hub_mgnt

Title:	DEChub/HUBwatch/PROBEwatch CONFERENCE
Notice:	Firmware -2, Doc -3, Power -4, HW kits -5, firm load -6&7
Moderator:	NETCAD::COLELLADT

Created:	Wed Nov 13 1991
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	4455
Total number of notes:	16761

1860.0. "DB90 port 1 disabled after power resset/bridge reset with floodmode enabled" by GIDDAY::DANIEL () Tue Jan 10 1995 07:02

When flood mode is enabled (base F/W 2.2), any reset of decbridge 90 (flash ver
3.1/3.4) by power reset or "set bridge reset" command causes the backbone port 1
to be disabled after boot. You need to manually "set port 1 ena" to get the
bridge to do bridging.

Is this a feature or a bug?


2nd question:

	How many times can the flash ROM be erased? We have a DB90 with 65,298
erases. Is there a limit?

Thanks in advance.

Daniel.
CSC Sydney.

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
1860.1	Counter shouldn't be incrementing.	CGOS01::DMARLOWE	Have you been HUBbed lately?	`Tue Jan 10 1995 21:56`	4
	As to the Flash erasure counter, see note 541. You may have other problems on the network. dave
1860.2	A bug and fix is V3.9	WARFUT::NAEEM		`Fri Jan 13 1995 08:52`	2
	Upgrade to v3.9.It fixed the problem.
1860.3	flash erase counter	NPSS::RAUHALA		`Fri Jan 20 1995 18:01`	7
	I suspect your flash erase counter has not really incremented 65,298 times! The area where this counter is kept is 2 bytes. I'm guessing it was somehow initialized incorrectly. If the first byte was set to FF (hex) then the full counter value would be FF00 (hex) or 65,280. Since your current value is 65298 it looks like you really have had 18 flash erases. 65298-65280=18