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Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 14:52:34 -0700
From: Andrew Sharp <andy.sharp@onstor.com>
To: "Abdallah Harb" <abdallah.harb@onstor.com>
Subject: Re: Defect  TED00025471 Cougar -- Intermittent Kernel panic when
 load from an unconfigured compact flash
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Thanks Abdallah,

I'll stop by on Monday because I think I need physical access (popping
the CF cards in and out), and also I probably need to work with you on
how to reproduce it.  I'm up in pleasanton today.

Cheers,

a

On Fri, 3 Oct 2008 10:45:54 -0700 "Abdallah Harb"
<abdallah.harb@onstor.com> wrote:

> Of course .. here's the connection to two units:
>  
> 10.0.20.11 2001
> 10.0.20.11 2002
>  
> Thanks,
> Abdallah
> 
> ________________________________
> 
> From: Andy Sharp
> Sent: Fri 10/3/2008 10:30 AM
> To: Abdallah Harb
> Cc: Brian Stark
> Subject: Re: Defect TED00025471 Cougar -- Intermittent Kernel panic
> when load from an unconfigured compact flash
> 
> 
> 
> 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
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 
