[geeks] A U30 puzzle

[Lionel Peterson]

Have you considered going back to Solaris 9 and perform similar testing?

I don't think you've determined if hardware or software is to blame...  
You've already had one hardware failure with this system, a second  
failure isn't out of the question.

Installing Solaris 9 will confirm hardware, cable and swich port are  
all fine.


HTH,

Lionel

PS: Happy 4th of July to all in the US of A. Everyone else, have a  
nice Saturday ;^)

On Jul 3, 2009, at 9:48 PM, Phil Stracchino <alaric at metrocast.net>  
wrote:

> Nadine Miller wrote:
>> Are you patched up to current levels?  I'd check to see if there are
>> any regressions from Solaris 10 release in your OS.  What about your
>> cables?  Cat-5 or 6?  Length?  Known to be good?
>
> Cables are cat5, but for the hme that shouldn't matter.  No cable
> involved is longer than three meters.  Good call on patching,  
> though, I
> have not patched the box yet and should check.
>
>> There's a bug in netatalk, if you have that installed that can cause
>> your network connection to drop (had that problem on mine) recompiled
>> with the latest, which fixed it.
>
> netatalk isn't running on the machine with the problem.
>
>> I've seen some weird stuff with Solaris and network adaptors.  I have
>> one motherboard that is known good with an rge (Realtek 8111C) NIC
>> that falls off the network for about 5 minutes at a time.  It works
>> fine in both Mac OS X and Windows XP.  The problem is a known bug
>> regression in Nevada, but I am running Solaris 10 release on the
>> system.  I have the same chipset NIC in my NAS, no problems
>> whatsoever.  I can only surmise it is a hardware chip revision level
>> issue.
>
> Yet the same hme worked fine since 2000/2001 running Solaris 9, until
> just the last few weeks.  During that same month or so of downtime,  
> the
> SunSwiftPCI went sour.  I still can't help but wonder if the hme has
> developed a fault.  Unfortumately it's the one on the board.
>
> I suppose I could always put another 100Mbit adapter in as primary,
> unplumb the hme, and see if that makes any difference (keeping the
> gigabit in as a dedicated sync link between the two machines).
>
>
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