Re: Power 8 dead

[DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I agree with Roberto's assessment in general.

My question is what was done about that issue on October 16 because at 
least from this list that is the first hint of an issue. The rest of 
this issues clearly were today, an hour from now if you beleive the time 
stamps. Close enough I can get to the data center to see if fail! :-)

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On 1/7/2020 7:51 AM, Roberto José Etcheverry Romero wrote:
> Not much to be done. Backplane issues tend to be that dramatic. It would
> seem that it first started having PCI-e switch troubles (maybe from
> whatever power issue the backplane had) and then it failed the entire
> board. Without being able to look at the product activity log or the ASMI
> log I cannot be certain if there were previous errors that might have clued
> you up to that problem.
> I did have some Power5 boards die slowly (first a couple of PCIx slots,
> then finally the entire board).
>
> On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 9:17 AM Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Got a call from IBM this morning.  Apparently my remaining Power 8 died.
> > Something about a backplane issue.  They mumbled something about it having
> > been going on awhile but it finally called home.  This concerns me.  Like,
> > is there some way I could have caught this before it died?
> >
> > On the positive side it is mainly a sandbox machine.  2 lpars of VIOS and
> > 5 LPARs of IBM i.  Mostly for testing and triple redundancy.  One lpar does
> > have some old archived Domino databases.  Probably the only one a "user"
> > may notice.  Well those who may have been working on any Domino server on
> > any of it's other lpars as they got automatically failed over to a live
> > server.  But, really, I do it's quarterly downtimes midday, midweek.
> >
> > On the HMC:
> > Problem #, PMH #, Reference code, Status, Last reported time, Failing MTMS
> > 24185,082,000, 11002610, Open, Jan 7, 2020 9:18:25 AM, 8286-41A/redacted
> > 24184,082,000, A6010266, Open, Jan 7, 2020 9:18:10 AM, 8286-41A/redacted
> > 24183,082,000, B7006A22, Open, Jan 7, 2020 9:18:10 AM, 78C9-001/redacted
> > #2E44704, Open, Dec 27, 2019 5:17:08 PM, 9009-42A/redacted
> > 57CE8157, Open, Oct 16, 2019 12:03:08 AM, 8286-41A/redacted