Re: Weird errors caused by faulty network card

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From: John F Hall
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 1994 11:07

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In article <1994Dec12.150347.2395@acme.demon.co.uk>
           jono@acme.demon.co.uk "Jono Nicholson" writes:

> ...
> 
> In short the entire system was seriously broken... After I had 
> reformatted & re-installed 3 times to no avail I decided that it must be 
> some form of hardware failure - I thought the hard disc had gone down (it 
> is 3 years old and has been on almost constantly in that time) but it 
> turned out that the network card was not seated correctly - this is 
> strange because the kernel was acknowledging the presence of a network 
> card & it was apparantly working perfectly.
> 
> Removal of the offending card fixed all the problems!!
> 
> The moral of this story is *CHECK THE HARDWARE* if you get any random 
> errors, don't assume it is a software problem...

It's fairly common for faulty cards to bring down other parts of a system.
It's symptomatic of an addressing fault.  If the faulty card is addressed
it's the only one that responds and everything works.  If another is
addressed both it and the faulty one responds so that there is a failure.

-- 
John F Hall     jfhall@avondale.demon.co.uk    CompuServe: 100016,1210

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