FDDI card problem

From: Gabor.Zelenak@hungarocontrol.hu
Date: Thu Mar 27 2003 - 09:10:30 EST


Hi admins,

I think the problem what I will show up, is well
known by many of yours. The problem occures with
our FDDI cards:
[------------------------ HW & SW Description ----------------]
[Digital UNIX V4.0F (Rev. 1229); Wed Aug 22 12:21:25 GMT 2001]
[physical memory = 256.00 megabytes. ]
[available memory = 240.35 megabytes. ]
[using 972 buffers containing 7.59 megabytes of memory ]
[Firmware revision: 6.1-2 ]
[Digital UNIX version 1.88-70 ]
[COMPAQ AlphaServer DS10 617 MHz ]
[-------------------------------------------------------------]
Mar 4 13:29:01 maofcdp01 vmunix: fta0: Receive Overrun
Mar 4 14:12:33 maofcdp01 vmunix: fta0: Receive Overrun
Mar 4 14:51:30 maofcdp01 vmunix: fta0: Link Unavailable.
Mar 4 14:51:58 maofcdp01 vmunix: ITPSA2: HTH intr. on bus 2, SBCL = 0xa7
Mar 4 14:52:00 maofcdp01 vmunix: ITPSA2: SCSI Bus was reset
Mar 4 14:52:01 maofcdp01 vmunix: fta0: Link Unavailable.
Mar 4 14:58:30 maofcdp01 vmunix: fta0: Link Available.
Mar 4 14:58:30 maofcdp01 vmunix: fta0: Link transmit failure
Mar 4 15:00:49 maofcdp01 vmunix: fta0: Receive Overrun
Mar 4 15:00:50 maofcdp01 vmunix: fta0: Receive Overrun

and another type of defect /the HW&SW parts are the same/:

Mar 25 12:20:15 maoftmc04 vmunix: fta0: Packet memory parity error.
Mar 25 12:20:15 maoftmc04 vmunix: fta0: Link Unavailable.
Mar 25 12:20:15 maoftmc04 vmunix: fta0: Link Available.
Mar 25 12:20:30 maoftmc04 vmunix: fta0: Packet memory parity error.
Mar 25 12:20:30 maoftmc04 vmunix: fta0: Link Unavailable.
Mar 25 12:20:31 maoftmc04 vmunix: fta0: Link Available.
Mar 25 12:20:41 maoftmc04 vmunix: fta0: Packet memory parity error.
Mar 25 12:20:41 maoftmc04 vmunix: fta0: Halts threshold exceeded.
Mar 25 12:20:41 maoftmc04 vmunix: fta0: Driver disabled. Check the network adapter.

I've heard from somewhere, that the problem should be with the
firmware - instead of the kernel. If so, only one question is
pending: how could I solve this fault?

Regards,
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