[rescue] SF280R hardware problems

[Kyle R Maxwell]

Hmm... I hope that does it, but for our problems it's been only fixed
by replacing the CPU. YMMV, of course.

--- Bill Bradford <mrbill at mrbill.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 07:22:47PM -0800, Kyle R Maxwell wrote:
> > Yeah, that's happened to us a few times -- same equipment. EDP
> errors,
> > right? The Sun tech said something about a batch of bad CPU's,
> they've
> > been seeing this a lot.
> 
> Actually it was just AFSR halts, bad traps, etc.
> 
> Had this:
> 
> Two identical machines.  Both loaded up (dual 750s, 8G RAM, dual 36G
> drives (mirrored)).  First machine, CPU0 goes bad.  I yank the
> drives,
> throw them in machine 2, reboot.  all is well.  Tonight, the second
> machine started flaking.  I went in, took cpu0 out of box 1, put cpu1
> in its place, put drives back in, rebooted, its fine..
> 
> Also updated the OpenBoot from 4.0.40 to 4.5.4 (the one running was
> over a year old..).  Maybe that will fix some of the problems.
> 
> Bill
> 
> -- 
> Bill Bradford
> mrbill at mrbill.net
> Austin, TX
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