interesting error. Bad sbus card causes I/O board to appear bad....

From: Jon Hudson (jon.hudson@finisar.com)
Date: Thu Jan 08 2004 - 22:44:05 EST


While this make look like some to be an I/O board error, I assure you it
is not. This is purely as the result of a malfunctioning Emulex FC sbus
card (LP9002S-E).

Here are the errors taken out of a POST on a E4000 with diag-level and
diag-switch set to max and on.

At first we replaced the I/O board due to the "TODC battery is low bit
set". However, the I/O board was not at fault. After removing the sbus
card in slot 1, the error has gone away.

I just post this because this is the first time I've seen a faulty sbus
card error masquerade as a NVRAM issue on an I/O board. Just thought
others might find it interesting.

Cheers,
Jon

<snip>
0,0>Board 1 NVRAM Devices Test
0,0> M48T59 (TOD) Init
0,0>WARNING TOD Stopped or testmode, resetting TOD registers to 0
0,0>ERROR: TEST=NVRAM Devices,SUBTEST=M48T59 (TOD) Init ID=8.1
0,0>Component under test: Board 1 Firehose Bus
0,0>TODC battery is low bit set
<snip>
0,0>ERROR: TEST=SysIO Functional,SUBTEST=SysIO Sbus Probe ID=13.9
0,0>Component under test: Board 1 SYSIO 0 ASIC U2700
0,0> Plug In PROM Checksum Error
checksum from PROM header = 744c
computed segment checksum = 754b
<snip>
0,0>POST Failed
0,0>
0,0> System Board Status
0,0>-----------------------------------------------------------------
0,0> Slot Board Status Board Type Failures
0,0>-----------------------------------------------------------------
0,0> 0 | Normal |+CPU/Memory |
0,0> 1 | Online/failure | IO Type 1 | TODC SB_SLOT2
0,0> 2 | Normal |+CPU/Memory |
0,0> 3 | Normal | Disk Board |
0,0> 4 | Normal |+CPU/Memory |
0,0> 5 | Normal | IO Type 1 |
0,0> 6 | Normal |+CPU/Memory |
0,0> 7 | Normal | Disk Board |
0,0> 16 | Normal | Clock Board |
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