[Sunhelp] GBIC Failures...

[Jon Davis (EUS)]

We also had a GBIC fail in the last week on an E3500.  I believe a GBIC also failed on another E3500 in another department.  I hope this is not a trend.

Jon Davis
Systems Engineer
jon.davis at ericsson.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Tubbs, Derric L [SMTP:Derric.Tubbs at West.Boeing.com]
> Sent:	Wednesday, July 28, 1999 6:49 AM
> To:	'sunhelp at sunhelp.org'
> Subject:	RE: [Sunhelp] GBIC Failures...
> 
> 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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