Re: [Wg-test-framework] Notes from Xen Project/AllNet call Mar 4th

["Paul L. George" <pgeorge@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Ian C, 

Both, Were having the same problem.  Since both pairs of servers are identical 
I don't understand why one would work the other doesn't.  We are still 
investigating..

I am not sure I will be available tomorrow morning.  My wife goes in for knee 
replacement surgery tomorrow, I am not yet sure of the time.  I am taking my 
laptop and mobile hotspot with me so if she goes in early I will be just 
sitting around until they are done.  I will join you all if I can.

-----Original Message-----
From: Ian Campbell [mailto:ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2015 9:44 AM
To: pgeorge@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: 'Don Koch'; 'Lars Kurth'; wg-test-framework@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; 'Donald 
Slutz'; 'Ian Jackson'
Subject: Re: [Wg-test-framework] Notes from Xen Project/AllNet call Mar 4th

On Mon, 2015-03-16 at 13:53 -0400, Paul L. George(Office) wrote:
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Campbell [mailto:ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, March 16, 2015 11:45 AM
> To: Don Koch
> Cc: Paul George; Lars Kurth; wg-test-framework@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; 
> Donald Slutz; Ian Jackson
> Subject: Re: [Wg-test-framework] Notes from Xen Project/AllNet call 
> Mar 4th
> 
> On Mon, 2015-03-16 at 11:35 -0400, Don Koch wrote:
> > On Mon, 16 Mar 2015 15:02:04 +0000
> > Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi Paul,
> > > 
> > > On Tue, 2015-03-10 at 17:58 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > > > (Adding CC to Ian Campbell who is going to pursue things in my 
> > > > absence next week...)
> > > 
> > > According to what Ian told me last week we are waiting on the following:
> > > 
> > > Serial breakage on elbling{0,1} and pigato{0,1}. AIUI this is a 
> > > cabling/connector/dongle issue. Where are we at with resolving those?
> 
> Paul Writes:
> Don and I worked on this last week.  We took a known good cable and 
> adaptor and swapped it with the suspected one.  We got the same 
> results.  It was read only.  We swapped Comtrol ports on the off 
> chance that it was a concentrator problem.  We still got the same 
> results.  It looks like the Serial port might be in compatible or not 
> working properly.  Don was going to work on it further.

Are you talking about elbling1 or pinot1 here? Or perhaps both?

Are they similar systems?

Given that elbling0 and pinot0 work OK I think compatibility issues are 
unlikely, more likely either a cabling issue or a damaged port I think.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ian C, 

Both were having the same problem.  Since both pairs of servers are identical I 
don't understand why one would work the other doesn't.  We are still 
investigating..  I agree with you it might actually be the port is having a 
problem.  It seems hard to believe, because the serial port is a pretty simple 
device and I have very rarely seen the actual port fail.  I suppose we could 
have a bad UART, but 2???

Nice job on the ARM Crate, very nicely put together.  It survived the trip in 
excellent condition, not even a loose cable.  

I am not sure I will be available tomorrow morning.  My wife goes in for knee 
replacement surgery tomorrow, I am not yet sure of the time.  I am taking my 
laptop and mobile hotspot with me so if she goes in early I will be just 
sitting around until they are done.  I will join you all if I can.

Paul

> > > Also there is an issue with rimava{0,1} (sp?) BIOS serial 
> > > redirection issue which AIUI is awaiting a replacement motherboard 
> > > from Paul and CPU from AMD. Where are we at with that one?
> Paul Writes:
> I have the new server boards on order we are waiting for them.  I sent 
> the white box AMD servers back to my supplier, and I will send the new 
> AMD chips to them as soon as I get them.  He will rebuild the servers 
> with the new Supermicro motherboards selected and send them back to me 
> for bench testing.  He is only 1 day away so the transferring back and 
> forth is not time consuming.

Have the new motherboards already been acquired? Who has them?

What is the status on the new AMD chips?

Ian.


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