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From: barrett@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Dan Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix,comp.sys.dec
Subject: Ethernet controller errors -- need help
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Date: 2 Jan 90 16:24:16 GMT
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	I posted this before but got NO responses.  Can anyone help?

	We have a VAX 8530 running Ultrix 2.0.  Its ethernet board has
been spitting out 10 error messages per minute.  They look like this:

----- EVENT INFORMATION SEGMENT -----

EVENT CLASS                             ERROR EVENT 
OS EVENT TYPE                  104.     CONTROLLER ERROR 
SEQUENCE NUMBER              28290.
OPERATING SYSTEM                        ULTRIX 32 
OCCURRED/LOGGED ON                      Tue Jan  2 11:07:17 1990 EST
SYSTEM ID                 x06FF05AD
OCCURRED ON SYSTEM                      crabcake 

----- UNIT INFORMATION -----

UNIT CLASS                              ADAPTER/CONTROLLER 
UNIT TYPE                               AIE CONTROLLER 
UNIT NO.                         0.
ERROR SYNDROME                          BVP ERROR 

----- BVP ERROR REGS -----

PORT STATUS REG           xBA0400C0
                                        ERROR SUMMARY 
                                        RESPONSE QUEUED 
                                        PORT STATE:           ENABLED 
                                        FREE QUEUE EXHAUSTED 
                                        EXTENDED SELF TEST PASSED 
                                        ADAPTER CAN COMMUNICATE 
                                        SELF TEST DONE 
                                        REGISTER WRITTEN BY ADAPTER 
PORT ERROR REG            x0000000F     FREE QUEUE EXHAUSTD 
                                        PORT #                0.
PORT DATA                 x00000002

	We had our ethernet board swapped, but the messages didn't go
away.  Has anybody else experienced this?  I had to shut off /etc/elcsd
because the error messages were overflowing our disk!!!

                                                        Dan

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