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From: ercm20@castle.ed.ac.uk (Sam Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Problem with Webster Multigate
Keywords: webster multigate lights exception fault
Message-ID: <9135@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 13 Mar 91 18:53:37 GMT
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Reply-To: Sam_Wilson@edinburgh.ac.uk
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I've just been configuring my second Multigate.  The first one came up
with no problems.  The second is temperamental.  I'm just writing to see
if anyone can tell me if I'm configuring it wrongly before I send it off
to have the hardware fixed.

Symptom (0): the box appears to come up OK but while you're using it all
   the zones and networks disappear. 

Symptom (1): whilst doing the hardware check as recommended in the
   manual we are supposed to see a cyclic flashing pattern on the front
   panel lights.  We actually see a rather sporadic and irregular
   pattern.  All the lights are working.  However, when you connect
   MGTalk to it it claims to pass all its selftests and comes up into
   the monitor (2.7) OK. 

Symptom (2): After booting from the attached Mac the box seems to work
   for a while and then stops (as (0)).  The one occasion I happen to
   have had MGTalk running when this happens I saw a repeated error
   message saying:

   "Exception 2 at PC = 0x6F14 to ipl=7 from ipl=7
    Supervisor data word read access of addr 0x178C3A. ssw=1105"


As I say, I am keen to find out if this is a configuration problem or
whether we have to send the box away to be fiddled with.

Thanks, as they say, in advance.


Sam Wilson
Network Services, Edinburgh University Computing Service, Scotland, UK