From your description it sounds like you have defective hardware. Flash ROM chips are known to fail. I would recommend that you return the card for servicing.
-M |-----Original Message----- |From: owner-usr-tc@lists.xmission.com |[mailto:owner-usr-tc@lists.xmission.com]On Behalf Of Michael DeMan |Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 1999 11:32 AM |To: usr-tc@lists.xmission.com |Subject: Re: (usr-tc) RE: ARC flash going bad | | |Yes, | | The flash was corrupted to the point where the card wouldn't boot - we |have had to do a tftp download to restore the flash twice now. Basically it |boots up through the ROM, but when it gets to 'autoloading flash' it fails. |After the first failure it ran for about 24 hours, and then started |rebooting by itself again - the reboots again resulting in problems with the |flash - CRC checks on it. I was able to recover the system quickly the |second time (1/2 hour) but obviously this isn't the solution. We've never |had this happen before, and have been running the 4.1.59 code for over a |month so I don't think it's a problem with that. | | We had also thought that maybe it was the new 'telnet' hack being |exploited, but I have telnet shut off completely as of yesterday and am |coming into the unit via the serial port. | | I seem to recall some postings somewhere a long time ago (6 mos?) about |a similar problem with the flash getting corrupted but can't find them in |any archives. | |---------- |>From: "Mike Wronski" <mike@coredump.ae.usr.com> |>To: <usr-tc@lists.xmission.com> |>Subject: (usr-tc) RE: ARC flash going bad |>Date: Wed, Aug 18, 1999, 8:36 AM |> | |> |> |>|-----Original Message----- |>|From: owner-usr-tc@lists.xmission.com |>|[mailto:owner-usr-tc@lists.xmission.com]On Behalf Of Michael DeMan |>|Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 1999 10:28 AM |>|To: usr-tc@lists.xmission.com |>|Subject: (usr-tc) ARC flash going bad |>| |>| |>|We've had a problem in the past two days with our flash going bad in our |>|HiperArc unit. Is this indiciative of a failing card or is there perhaps |>|another issue we can look into. This happened two evenings ago, and just |>|about an hour ago this morning (Wednesday). |>| |>|We are running ARC 4.1.59, with hardware revision 19.0.0. |>| |> |>How are you determining that the flash is "bad"? Are you losing configs? Seeing |>strange behavior? |>The are cases where flash can get corrurpted. This rarly happens, but you can |>correct it by flashing code to the card via the console port and using |the token |>"AT{ZF}" instead of "AT{Z}" to start the Z-Modem SDL2 download.. |>You will have to reconfigure the card after this procedure. |> |>-M |> |> |>- |> To unsubscribe to usr-tc, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" |> with "unsubscribe usr-tc" in the body of the message. |> For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send |> "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. |> | |- | To unsubscribe to usr-tc, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" | with "unsubscribe usr-tc" in the body of the message. | For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send | "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. | - To unsubscribe to usr-tc, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe usr-tc" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message.