At 09:13 PM 5/9/02 -0500, you wrote:
Generally having the NMC Hub led red means you have a communication problem on the bus, but it is not bad. Some old versions of the NMC had this issue where they report the hub status red but in reality it was a problem in the old version of the NMC code. What bothers me is that you stated that the HiPer arc if plugged into the chassis does not boot, that is a problem.
Generally if you see the boot prompt stop at the Kernel loading area - it could be one of the these
a. The terminal program you are using has an issue Fix - Put the dip switch 5 on the arc on the ON position
Yes this is a strange problem. Considering the ARC's boot fine in the chassis without the NMC and I'm able to communicate with the ARC via console no problem, but then have this hang & reboot problem in a chassis with the NMC with the same console setup is very strange. I'll try the Dip switch 5 thing, but I would think if this was the problem it would always be a problem, not just when the arc is in a chassis with an NMC card in it.
b. The HiPer arc is in a reboot mode Fix - Rare - most likely a hardware issue.
I doubt this is what is going on, considering the ARC does boot fine when inserted into a chassis w/o NMC. I'm stumped, I'm going to try and swap the NIC's between the two NAC's I have and see if there is any thing going on there. The crazy part is one of these ARC's was just upgraded from 3COM to be V.92 ready, and that ARC (Before sending it to 3COM) was working fine in one of the older chassis, the reason it was sent back was to get the DRAM chip upgraded to 16MB and a new 128MB memory stick installed. - Mike ------------------------------------------------ Rock Island Communications, Inc. (360)-378-5884 http://www.rockisland.com/ San Juan Islands, WA ------------------------------------------------