Re: Strange occurrence on our E4A (V6)

[Jack Woehr <jwoehr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If I've got it right, End of Support was  2018-01-31.
Hope you've got a migration plan.

On Fri, Jan 19, 2024 at 7:04 PM Jack Woehr <jwoehr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Sounds like glitchy hardware.
>
>    1.
>    https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/power8/0000-REF?topic=POWER8_REF/p8eai/B1817200.html
>    2. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/power8?topic=procedures-fspsp02
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 19, 2024 at 6:58 PM James H. H. Lampert via MIDRANGE-L <
> midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > This afternoon, our E4A didn't power up for its normal weekly exercise
> > cycle. And it was showing a yellow light.
> >
> > I pulled out the control panel, and for a while, it was showing nonsense.
> >
> > I pushed the start button. It didn't immediately react. Then, a minute
> > or so later, it finally began to power up.
> >
> > Once I was able to get a terminal sesson on it, I looked around.
> >
> > I found a CPPEA58 in the system operator message queue. Opening that
> > message gave me:
> >
> > Cause . . . . . :   A platform Licensed Internal Code error occurred.
> > Recovery  . . . :   Contact your hardware service provider and provide the
> >    following list of possible failing items:
> >        FSPSP28
> >        FSP0200
> >        FSPSP02
> >
> >
> > Looking at the Service Action Log in SST, I got two SRCs: B6004422
> > (count of 5) and B1817200 (count of 1). Looking at the B1817200, I got
> > the same three items that I got from the QSYSOPR message.
> >
> > But the only thing I found under "failed and non-reporting logical
> > hardware resources" was DSP001, which is to be expected. And F10 from
> > Hardware Service Manager gave me "No hardware resources currently
> > require attention."
> >
> > And a WRKACTJOB shows the correct time and date for the system TOD clock.
> >
> > Any insights?
> >
> > --
> > JHHL
> > --