Re: [casper] ROACH initiating user shutdown

2015-03-15 Thread Jason Manley
It could be a grounding problem. I've seen the a shutdown triggered on an un-grounded ROACH-1 when the chassis is touched due to ESD discharge. Unfortunately, "user shutdown" is probably about the best logging you're going to get. This implies that the Actel Fusion received a shutdown request. I

Re: [casper] ROACH initiating user shutdown

2015-03-15 Thread Andrew Jameson
Hi Dan, We run our 1Gb ports on the 1GbE switch at 100 Mb (Full Duplex) for just this very reason. I'd like to try and work out what could be sending the shutdown message to the server. What might be the best way to catch that in some sort of log message or via the Xport? Cheers, Andrew On 16/

Re: [casper] ROACH initiating user shutdown

2015-03-15 Thread Dan Werthimer
hi andrew, roach1 ethernet ports do not work reliably at 1Gbit/sec. do you have an old 100 Mbit switch you can use? i have no idea why this would cause a board to shut down though. best wishes, dan On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 4:42 PM, Andrew Jameson wrote: > Hi all, > > We have a group of 13 RO

[casper] ROACH initiating user shutdown

2015-03-15 Thread Andrew Jameson
Hi all, We have a group of 13 ROACH1 boards that have been running stably for 3 years. Recently the 1GbE and 10GbE switches that connect them to some servers was changed over (replaced with identical models and configs). One of the ROACH boards now exhibits some rather intermittent (every few ho