[c-nsp] SUP1A-2GE's in other status

[Keegan Holley]

On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 5:22 AM, Chris Scott <chrisjscott at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 30 November 2010 17:39, Keegan Holley <keegan.holley at sungard.com>
> wrote:
> > We have a few hybrid mode SUP1A cards left.  A few of the redundant cards
> > are in other status.  I was curious if anyone had run into this in the
> past.
> >  TAC wasn't much help.  I don't see any log messages of value.  The only
> > thing that jumps out to me is that a few of the HW revisions and FW (not
> > IOS/CatOS) revisions do not match on the two sups.  I can't find anything
> in
> > the way of a compatibility matrix so I'm not sure if that indicates a
> > problem either.
>
> This happened to me with one box.  One Sup1A would regularly crash to
> ROMMON IIRC, needing manual boot execution for whatever reason.
> Seemed to be a HW problem as swapping the sup cured it.  Didn't spend
> any time investigating relative HW/FW version deltas as the quick swap
> was a win.  Subsequent replacement of all Sup1As with Sup2s has shown
> far better reliability.
>
>
I was thinking ROMMON, some of them actually were in ROMON.  There are a one
or two that don't just respond at the console though.  I'm pretty much
replacing all of them.  I guess this is just to satisfy my own curiosity.
Thanks for responding.