[c-nsp] Sup720-3BXL and diag issues

[Jimmy Changa]

Seems that all cards and in all slots seem to fail. Again, the same cards
work fine else were.

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 6:47 PM, Phil Mayers <p.mayers at imperial.ac.uk>wrote:

>  On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 07:40:30PM +0000, Jimmy Changa wrote:
>
>> I have a 6500 with a sup720-3BXL. Every time I put a WS-X6408A-GBIC card
>> in
>> the chassis, diag fails the card.
>>
>> I haven't rebooted the box yet, as this carrys a significant amount of
>> traffic, has anyone else seen this type of problem.
>>
>> Diag on the most recent card shows:
>>
>> 7) TestUnusedPortLoopback:
>>
>>     Port  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8
>>     ----------------------------
>>           U  U  U  F  U  U  U  F
>>
>
> Some of the diags are heavily dependent on IOS config, usually only the
> disruptive ones though. I don't have any 6408s but what does:
>
> sh diagnostic content module X
>
> ....say when the card is inserted? It should list some details about test
> #7 i.e. whether it's a bootup/health test, which I'd expect to pass in all
> circumstances.
>
> A few weeks ago, I'd have said you may have a bad slot, but recently we had
> a slot "go funny" and no amount of fiddling would clear it *except* a reload
> of the box, so it's definitely worth trying.
>
>
>> The cards work in other chassis.
>>
>
> Have you tried other cards in that slot?
>