mrb1@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (maurice.r.baker) (11/21/89)
Hello ---- I was wondering if anyone else out there is running a Bell Tech ACE I/O board under UNIX System V/386 release 3.2.1 on a 6386(E) ? Everything was working fine, or so it seemed, until the system started spitting out the following message on the console: ACE: Card 0: req before init, cmd ?? where ?? was a variety of hex numbers (10,11, 86, etc. come to mind) The application program using the card seemed to failing at a blocked open (waiting for DCD) on the port....with a return code of -1 and an errno of 128. The ace/adload process appeared to be running just fine, as least as far as I could tell from a "ps -ef". Rebooting the system, and restarting the app. cleared the problem. I have seen this on two of our systems running identical software. Can anyone shed some light on what this error message means, and/or what to do about it? I'm gonna give Bell Tech support a call, but after several previous encounters I'm not too hopeful. Thanks M. Baker email to hoqub!mrb 201-949-7935 will also watch for reply postings :-)
cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) (11/21/89)
In article <5953@cbnewsh.ATT.COM>, mrb1@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (maurice.r.baker) writes: > ACE: Card 0: req before init, cmd ?? > > The ace/adload process appeared to be running just fine, as least as far as > I could tell from a "ps -ef". Rebooting the system, and restarting the > app. cleared the problem. I have seen this on two of our systems running > identical software. I don't have an ACE card, but I do have an ICC card. Every once in a while something similar happens (sometimes the ports just lock up). I use the idebug command (in the same directory as the downloader) to reset the card and it works fine. Maybe there is an ace/adebug that has the same capabilities. There was no documentation for the program, but a ? (or maybe "help") got a list of the commands available. Good luck. -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Conor P. Cahill uunet!virtech!cpcahil 703-430-9247 ! | Virtual Technologies Inc., P. O. Box 876, Sterling, VA 22170 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+