[Info-vax] RX-2620 server failure

[Grant Taylor]

On 9/3/19 2:21 PM, Rich Jordan wrote:
> Heh...  actually what the hell?  99.9% won't work but its a parts 
> disk now anyway.  I can see if I can make a very clean desktop and 
> shroud, I don't need to move the heads or remove the disks which is 
> supposedly the truly fiddly bit.

That all makes sense to me.

> However the 2620 is still misbehaving in new ways.  The iLO just 
> went offline, though the server stayed up.  The MAC and assigned IP 
> disappeared from the network.  Disconnect/Reconnecting the iLO cable 
> made no difference.  I ended up having to power cycle the server to 
> get the iLO back.

Odd.

> The box is definitely being skittish.  I'm wondering now if we had a 
> power event bad enough to get through the UPS; we lost our DS10, one 
> Proliant started acting up a few days later, then the 2620 lost its 
> system disk (and possibly DVD, still working on that) and had the CMOS 
> apparently corrupted which hung startups until we got a new battery.

That does sound suspicious to me.  I would probably sanity check some 
things e.g. voltages (ɸ-to-ɸ, ɸ-to-neutral, ɸ-to-ground, leg-to-leg, 
leg-to-neutral, leg-to-ground, neutral-to-ground), polarity.  If I found 
anything that I didn't understand, I'd likely bring in an electrician to 
check things further.



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Grant. . . .
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