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Re: (ASCEND) Firmware for MAX 1800




 I'm curious, Did you open a TR ticket with Ascend on it, I got the "We
have never seen that problem before " quote when I reported it. I have
a hard time believing it was just me. 

Jason Nealis


On Fri, 7 Nov 1997, Andre Beck wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, Nov 05, 1997 at 03:04:57AM -0500, Jason Nealis wrote:
> > 
> >  I'm curious if any of you have seen the following , On my 1800's
> > I upgraded to AP33, I've had a number of failures, The boxes go into
> > a reboot cycle and never come out of it, Have you seen this?
> > 
> > FATAL ERROR:  Index: 19  Load: bi.m18 Revision: 5.0Ap33
> >         Date: 11/04/1997.       Time: 20:01:16
> >         Location: b012678c b01270d4 b0127d48 b01c26b0 b01c2814 b0089878
> > 
> > WARNING:  Index: 106  Load: bi.m18 Revision: 5.0Ap33
> >         Date: 11/04/1997.       Time: 20:01:16
> >         Location: b017c924 b01a23a8 b01a45e8 b008b180 b008b0a8 b012678c
> > 
> > FATAL ERROR:  Index: 19  Load: bi.m18 Revision: 5.0Ap33
> >         Date: 11/04/1997.       Time: 20:02:18
> >         Location: b012678c b01270d4 b0127d48 b01c26b0 b01c2814 b0089878
> > 
> >  > fat
> > FATAL ERROR:  Index: 19  Load: bi.m18 Revision: 5.0Ap33
> >         Date: 11/04/1997.       Time: 20:01:16
> >         Location: b012678c b01270d4 b0127d48 b01c26b0 b01c2814 b0089878
> > 
> > WARNING:  Index: 106  Load: bi.m18 Revision: 5.0Ap33
> >         Date: 11/04/1997.       Time: 20:01:16
> >         Location: b017c924 b01a23a8 b01a45e8 b008b180 b008b0a8 b012678c
> > 
> > FATAL ERROR:  Index: 19  Load: bi.m18 Revision: 5.0Ap33
> >         Date: 11/04/1997.       Time: 20:02:18
> >         Location: b012678c b01270d4 b0127d48 b01c26b0 b01c2814 b0089878
> 
> *BINGO*
> 
> We should call this the Max1800 instobooting problem. We have seen this
> with several Max1800 units during the last months, first (and most in-
> tensely when upgrading to p13). These units, working perfectly up to the
> day the p13 was installed, crashed right during boot and got into a reboot
> loop (this is the death of unattended remote upgrades). We had units where
> a powerdown of some minutes caused the 1800 to come back alive and further
> cleansweeping of the config (fclear,trestore,fsave,nvram) seemed to cure
> it somewhat. We had a unit where only removal of the NVRAM backup battery
> got the unit back alive, but the unit crashed again after installing the
> previous config onto it (RMA'ed this one). When we had a chance to look on
> these faulty units we saw Net/BRI as "Not avail" - may be an indication
> of failing POST as seen with modem slots.
> 
> This problem seemed to went away with anything after p13, but this may also
> have been a strange coincidence. May also be that it happens only now and
> then, and only to some range of S/Ns. Bad enough, it happened as well with
> p33 on one of our remote 1800s giving us a bad time (it's good to have
> relatives in towns where you install remote Ascends...).
> 
> >  Also another issue with AP33 is I'm getting Fatal Error #2's, 
> >  Have you seen these?
> > 
> >         Date: 11/04/1997.       Time: 21:12:30
> >         NVRAM was rebuilt
> > 
> > SYSTEM IS UP:  Index: 100  Load: bi.m18 Revision: 5.0Ap33
> >         Date: 11/04/1997.       Time: 21:12:53
> > 
> > FATAL ERROR:  Index: 2  Load: bi.m18 Revision: 5.0Ap33
> >         Date: 11/04/1997.       Time: 22:17:14
> >         Location: b017ca7c b0089438 b0089e34 b00a803c b00a80a0 b0088848
> > 
> > SYSTEM IS UP:  Index: 100  Load: bi.m18 Revision: 5.0Ap33
> >         Date: 11/04/1997.       Time: 22:18:21
> 
> Haven't seen this yet, but your base is mucho greater than mine - for
> you the "law of the big number" holds better ;)
> 
> *Sigh*
> 
> Andre.
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