[Info-vax] errors on PEA0:

[Hans Vlems]

On 7 jan, 11:39, hel... at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---
undress to reply) wrote:
> For almost 2 years now, I have had three relatively modern (for me)
> ALPHAs in the cluster.  (Before that I had 2 VAXen and an old (even for
> me) ALPHA.  The XP1000 always had 100 Mb/s FD and the two PWS have had
> it for a couple of days now after I set it in LANCP because the
> autonegotiation doesn't work; before that was 10 Mb/s HD.  Before the
> change, I had a slowly rising (couple per day) error count on PEA0: on
> the XP1000, and also some errors on the SCSI disks on that machine.
> After the change, I see NO errors on the XP1000 and no errors on SCSI
> disks anywhere, but PEA0: on the 2 PWS now has the slowly rising error
> count like used to be the case on the XP1000.  Also, occasionally (when
> logged in via LAT), I/O on the terminal (emulator) sometimes stops for
> about a second then resumes.  I've never had this before.  Any ideas?

Phillip,
the value for the SRM variable EWA0_mode is sometimes set to
auto_sensing.
That value produces undesirable results, its value is (IMHO) better
set to auto_negotiate or
fast_fd (for 100 Mb/s controllers).
Hans