weiner@novavax.UUCP (Bob Weiner) (06/15/89)
We use a Workstations Solutions Exatape drive to back up our Apollo net. It is attached to a DN4000 running SR10.1 BSD. We use it with the basic software, rbak/wbak, not with Workstation Solutions special backup system. Most of the time it works find. But sometimes when it is being written to with wbak, it seems to cause a spontaneous reset of the node! Yesterday it reset the node which then got through its boot up sequence through init, but then returned PM$_Init (OK) and stopped with the ')' prompt. Typing go does not help. Someone suggested the DM may have been corrupted. Anyone seen anything like this. I really need to get the node up to run backups. Thanks. -- Bob Weiner, Motorola, Inc., USENET: ...!gatech!uflorida!novavax!weiner (407) 738-2087
krowitz@RICHTER.MIT.EDU (David Krowitz) (06/16/89)
We had a problem with the node crashing under SR9.7.0 on a DN3000. It turned out to be a problem in AEGIS, not in the Workstation Solutions driver software. They (Workstation Solutions) sent us an update version of AEGIS which solved the problem. SR10.1 may have a similar problem. When your node goes down, it should display a status code number. If you use the /com/stcode command after the node comes back up (or use it on another node) you can find out what the error message is. -- David Krowitz krowitz@richter.mit.edu (18.83.0.109) krowitz%richter@eddie.mit.edu krowitz%richter@athena.mit.edu krowitz%richter.mit.edu@mitvma.bitnet (in order of decreasing preference)