| Title: | TurboLaser Notesfile - AlphaServer 8200 and 8400 systems |
| Notice: | Welcome to WONDER::TURBOLASER in it's new home shortly |
| Moderator: | LANDO::DROBNER |
| Created: | Tue Dec 20 1994 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1218 |
| Total number of notes: | 4645 |
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 1000.1 | Need more | AFW5::OBRIEN | Tue Nov 19 1996 09:22 | 7 | |
| 1000.2 | some of the highlights... | USPS::FPRUSS | Frank Pruss, 202-232-7347 | Wed Nov 20 1996 21:48 | 43 |
| 1000.3 | More info please.. | JGODCL::CRONIN | Wed Nov 27 1996 05:13 | 18 | |
| 1000.4 | USPS::FPRUSS | Frank Pruss, 202-232-7347 | Wed Dec 04 1996 22:44 | 6 | |
| 1000.5 | Any engineering comments? | USPS::FPRUSS | Frank Pruss, 202-232-7347 | Fri Jan 31 1997 01:02 | 18 |
Our site ran for a month and then lost a 440 board in the second system
in this VMScluster.
Since early January, it has been a nightmare of one "DOA" board after
another out of Logistics. MCS even swapped backplanes thinking "this
many boards could not possibly be bad".
The local MCS office indicates this is not the only site in the their
office with the same or similar problem.
We are wondering if we should ask MCS to fall back to 350's?
CHAMP/FLD CAPE # 7CJB11140 U S POSTAL SERVICE CC: 7CJ
I'm even getting to the point of thinking there is one apparently
"good" board that "has an attitude" and won't work with other "in spec"
boards"!
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| 1000.6 | Dont see those problems over here... | IJSAPL::RIETKERK | Bart Rietkerk-Hoogeveen-Holland | Tue Feb 04 1997 04:31 | 29 |
Well,
We're running 2 12-cpu'd 440Mhz 8400's now for a couple of months.
One of these was upgraded from 350Mhs, and one was upgraded-from-350
-upgraded-from-300 (this project needs the fastest H/W around).
As soon as the 440's were out, we got them. At a point in time the
delivery was delayed because the installation instructions leaflet
wasn't ready yet, so we told them to send the cpu's anyway.....
(nothing about failures)
We've had our problems allright... some memory CRD's, PCI boxes (the
usual on Turbolaser-if I can find the fellow who designed the
nuts-n-bolds of the PCI-box for Tlaser I'll explain him gently that
Tlaser is NOT a PC or laserprinter, flame off), but back to the topic
here: NO CPU FAILURES. These 440's (all 12 dual cpu modules) are
running without problems so far. So I suspect something els is biting
the "base-noter" here.
Just wanted to add some real life data on a significant number of 440
cpu's in here. From my point of view there is no MFG issue. Btw: the
stuff over here is running DUNIX, not VMS. We have 8400's running VMS,
but they are 300's (upgraded 7000's) and 350's (new out of the box).
The upgraded 7000 are XMI-machines (hence no PCI box problems, REALLY
problem free machines), the 350's aren't here long enough to give you
any meaningfull failure data.
Cheers, Bart Rietkerk-MCS Hoogeveen-Holland.
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