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Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 10:30:45 -0700
From: Andrew Sharp <andy.sharp@onstor.com>
To: "Abdallah Harb" <abdallah.harb@onstor.com>
Cc: "Brian Stark" <brian.stark@onstor.com>
Subject: Re: Defect  TED00025471 Cougar -- Intermittent Kernel panic when
 load from an unconfigured compact flash
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Can I get access to one of those units?  This is something that hasn't
been seen previously in the lab or anywhere else.


On Fri, 3 Oct 2008 10:28:32 -0700 "Abdallah Harb"
<abdallah.harb@onstor.com> wrote:

> Andy,
>  
> I've seen this failure on about 6 units so far, so it's not just an
> isolated unit. Those same units loaded ok (multiple times) when a
> configured compact flash was used. 
> Thanks,
> Abdallah
> 
> ________________________________
> 
> From: andy.sharp@onstor.com [mailto:andy.sharp@onstor.com]
> Sent: Thu 10/2/2008 5:37 PM
> To: Andy Sharp
> Cc: Abdallah Harb
> Subject: Defect TED00025471 Cougar -- Intermittent Kernel panic when
> load from an unconfigured compact flash
> 
> 
> 
> Headline: Cougar -- Intermittent Kernel panic when load from an
> unconfigured compact flash id: TED00025471
> Note_Entry:
> Well I said I must be missing something!
> 
> Could this be a hardware problem?  This is the first time we've seen
> something like this.  Am I right that this is confined only to a small
> set of machines, possibly only one?  There really isn't anything
> different about the CF from the kernel's point of view if it's got
> our configuration changes on it or not, so I'm guessing that this can
> happen regardless of configuration state.  Have you tried booting a
> configured CF multiple times to see if you can reproduce this then?
> My guess is there's a flaky connector or other manufacturing defect.
> 
> 
> > Andy,
> > 
> > The compact flash card already contains ver 4.0.0.0, but has no
> > configuration such as the node name, IP address, etc..
> > Abdallah
> 
> 
> State: Opened
> history: 33776901       Oct  2 2008  1:42PM     abdallahh
> Submit  no_value        Opened 33776915        Oct  2 2008
> 3:26PM     andrews Modify  Opened  Opened 33776916        Oct  2
> 2008  3:42PM     abdallahh       Modify  Opened  Opened
> 33776967        10/02/2008 17:37:04 PM  andrews Modify  Opened  Opened
> 
> 
> 
