[comp.sys.novell] NE2000 DMA Failure abend

tom@convex1.tcs.tulane.edu (Tom Gerace) (02/09/91)

A Novell ELS installation here has a strange problem that
only occurs when attempting to print.  Immediately following
a print, the messages:
ABEND - NE2000 DMA FAILURE
REBOOT SYSTEM
RUNNING PROCESS ROUTER

are displayed on the server, and the server is hung.
This is a non-dedicated server, which has an NE2000 card in it,
and all workstations have NE2000 cards.  This error occurs
whenever ANY workstation attempts to print.

Other than the print problem, the network services work fine.

Does anyone have an idea of what's going on here?  Any help will
be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Tom Gerace  tom@rs1.tcs.tulane.edu
Tulane Computing Services
Tulane University
New Orleans, LA  USA

mjn@hogg.cc.uoregon.edu (Mike Neuburger) (02/09/91)

I had a problem with this on one of my fileservers as well.  The solution is one of two things according to Novell.  The first is there is a jumper on the ne2000 card that deals with systems that have chips and technologies chip sets.  This jumper needs to be removed if you have this.  The jumper is w16.  If this does not work replace the card.  This is what we ended up doing.

Hope this is helpful.
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