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loren@hops.wharton.upenn.edu (Loren Miller) wrote:

>ARRGGGHHH!!!!!!!!!

I know how that feel.

>As with many other of you I thought it would be a good idea to add
>OS/2 namespace to my NW 3.11 server in order to serve people with
>WIN95.  So I did.  Problem is that in the two weeks since I added OS/2
>namespace support to my volumes I've crashed the departmental server
>at least four times, and mirroring has stopped working entirely (!!!).
>It had been a stable server, with no crashes in the previous six
>months of heavy use, so I believe I'm justified in pointing to OS/2
>namespace as the culprit.  I have a few questions first, and then
>after the questions I'll put a complete description of all the abend
>messages I got and so on in case anyone out there wants to be the good
>samaritan and help me out.
>Q1: Anybody else had a problem adding OS/2 namespace to mirrored
>drives?  I'm using Seagate ST43400N drives (3GB each) for two volumes
>(dharma and karma), each of which has its own mirror, so it might have
>something to do with the size of the drives too.

Don't have that problem.

>Q2: The drives had previously had Mac, DOS, FTAM (?), and NFS
>namespaces.  Has anybody had problems adding OS/2 namespace to such a
>mix?

Mine just have dos, mac, and os/2.  No NFS and never heard of FTAM.

>Q3: Are there any important patches for the OS/2 namespace or for
>WIN95 clients?

Not that I know of.  How about doing a search on www.novell.com.

>Q4: Are there any important patches to install to make mirroring work?

Are you up to date with patches for netware 3.11 server.  There is a
dupfix.nlm in the 3.11 patch.

>Q5: Bonus question.  Any way of finding out which processes are
>hogging the utilization figures on a novell server?  My server has
>been at 100% utilization all day, and the VREPAIR process I'm
>currently running to remove OS2 namespace from a 3GB drive will
>probably take a week at the current rate.  Any way of killing those
>processes once you find them out?  Or am I getting too used to UNIX?

load monitor -p.  Select processor utilization and hit F3.

>Here's the server-specific stuff, for those who are still with me.
>HP NetServer 5-60/LM, 64MB RAM, 2GB SCSI System Disk, two 3GB ST43400N
>user volumes mirrored to another two ST43400N mirror volumes.  Eagle
>NE32000 NIC, 10base2 wiring, in a room with cooling problems,
>connected to a BEST UPS.  Running NW 3.11 with quite a few patches
>installed (I can't get the list right now, unfortunately).  Latest
>version of VREPAIR.NLM.

I have exactly the same hardware.  Except Seagate Baracuda 2GB and
Micropolis 9 GB, 128 MB RAM, Digital DE425 Ethernet card, APC ups.
Latest vrepair.nlm?  I hope you're talking about vrp31x.exe on
netwire.

>Any hints on programs to get updated versions of?

Just make sure you have the latest 3.11 patches.

You have total 5 GB with name spaces.  Check to see if you have enough
memory (see the Netware installation manual for memory calculation).

You have 5 hard drives.  Enough power/juice to run all of them from
one power supply? Possible power supply problem while all those drives
are spinning and trying to synchronize?.

What system rom bios version is on the HP Netserver LM.  Make sure
it's not pre 1.01.17 (I can't remember the exact version since I'm at
home now).  You can ftp.tft.ucla.edu /pub/NetServerLM for latest flash
bios image.

>MIRRORING
>Mirroring has stopped working for the last two weeks. Here's the error
>message when we boot the server and try to get mirroring working for
>device DHARMA.
>1.1.98 Aborted remirror of partition #5
>1.1.10 Device #2 (52220) SEAGATE ST43400N
>       0118 deactivated due to drive failure
>1.1.85 Volume DHARMA still active despite drive deactivation
>ABENDS
>Here are the abends.
>1. Happened the day after the OS/2 namespace installation
>Abend: Freeable Procedure found in invalid deleted file block
>Running process: AES Sleep process
>2. Happened immediately after booting the server from abend 1.
>Abend: The sleeping process was prematurely awakened during Delay
>Running process: REMIRROR
>3. Happened this morning, around 7:30
>don't have complete error message, sorry
>Running process: Console Command Procedure
>4. Happened this morning, around 10:30
>System halted Fri Oct 13, 1995  10:37:38am
>Abend: MoveDeletedFiles found an invalid DeletedFileList
>OS Version: Novell NetWare 3.11 (100 user) 2/20/91
>Running Process: Server 02 Process
>Please help!

Let me know if you need anything since we have similar hardware.
Daniel Tran - dtran@ucla.edu