[Sunhelp] GBIC Failures...

[Tubbs, Derric L]

I had an individual GBIC fail on my A5000 just last week but it's the first
in this ~2 year old system.  None have failed in the E3500 itself.  We'll
see if this starts a trend.  I'll post here if another fails within the next
six months or so.

> ----------
> From: 	Gregory Leblanc[SMTP:GLeblanc at cu-portland.edu]
> Reply To: 	sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> Sent: 	Tuesday, July 27, 1999 6:31 PM
> To: 	'sunhelp at sunhelp.org'
> Subject: 	RE: [Sunhelp] GBIC Failures...
> 
> What are the GBIC cards?  I don't get to work on enterprise systems at
> work, but a friend of mine gets to play with a lot of nice bight shiny new
> sun hardware, so I can ask...
>     Greg
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steel, Nick - TPNWS [mailto:NSteel at sempra.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 1999 4:21 PM
> To: 'sunhelp at ohno.mrbill.net'
> Subject: [Sunhelp] GBIC Failures...
> 
> 
> 
> We've recently had a high number (4) failures of the GBIC cards in some
> E450 and E3500 systems. We're begining to get a bit concerned that we're
> not just seeing random failures, but some kind of problem with the GBIC
> cards that are causing them to go out quickly (the replacement unit one
> system lasted about 2 months). 
> 
> Is anyone else running into a high failure rate with the GBIC cards, or
> have they been pretty stable for everyone? 
> 
> TIA 
> 
> -- Nick Steel 
> Infrastructure Analyst 
> Distributed Server Infrastructure 
> Sempra Energy 
> V. 323-780-5042 
> E. nsteel at sempra.com 
> 
> 
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