Newsgroups: bit.listserv.novell
Date:         Mon, 9 Nov 1992 23:04:22 PST
Reply-To:     Novell LAN Interest Group <NOVELL@SUVM.BITNET>
From:         David Townsend <USERDTOW@UBCMTSG.BITNET>
Subject:      Server Crashing

Dear Colleagues:

A client is having a serious problem with a Netware server that is
frequently crashing.  I need some advice in order to narrow the
domain of possible causes of the problem.

Typical Problems
================

Following a crash, when the system is brought back up and a volume is mounted
after running VREPAIR, messages similar to the following will appear in
the log file:

  Volume VOL3 mounted on ...
  Volume mount had the following error(s) that were fixed:
  Problem with file ICONINDX.AFP length extended old lngth=0, new lngth=65536
  Problem with file ICONDATA.AFP length extended old lngth=0, new lngth=65536
  Problem with file APPLDATA.AFP length extended old lngth=0, new lngth=65536

The system will work for a while and then crash again.

Sometimes different files are corrupted, but most often it is the
*.AFP files.

Occasionally, the following message will also appear in the error log:

  Volume VOL1 mounted on...
  Volume mount had the following error(s) that were fixed:
  Number of unclaimed FAT blocks that were freed 2

I am aware that there is a patch (FATFIX) that one can apply to
correct a bug that would cause the FAT and TURBOFAT tables to become
corrupted.  I'm hoping that this will help the problem.  But I have
a feeling that the problem may also be related to the controller cards
in use in the server (hardware configuration information is provided
below).  Has anyone else dealt with this kind of problem before?
Thanks in advance for any assistance provided on this matter.

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Server Configuration
====================

The NOS is Netware 386 3.11 (10-user version).

The server is an Everex Megacube 486/33 EISA with 32MB RAM.

The server has two Adaptec 1740 32-bit SCSI host adapters
(configured to operate in enhanced mode), one Adaptec 1540/1542
ISA SCSI host adapter, one ISA DL2000 Localtalk NIC and one
Gateway G/Ethernet 32EB 32-bit EISA bus mastering ethernet adapter.

The server is configured with Netware for MAC version 3.011

AUTOEXEC.NCF
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file server name NRS
set maximum packet receive buffers=1000
set maximum alloc short term memory=4096000
ipx internal net 3347
load APPLETLK net=3000 zone={"NRS_MAC"}
load a:DL2000 port=240 int=5 name=MAC_1
Load a:GEEBSV3 slot=6 frame=ETHERNET_802.3 name=NOVELL_1
Load a:GEEBSV3 slot=6 frame=ETHERNET_II    name=MAC_2
Load a:GEEBSV3 slot=6 frame=ETHERNET_SNAP  name=MAC_3
bind IPX     to NOVELL_1 net=1
bin APPLETLK to MAC_1    net=2   zone={"NRS_MAC"}
bin APPLETLK to MAC_2    net=3   zone={"NRS_MAC"}
bin APPLETLK to MAC_3    net=4-4 zone={"NRS_MAC"}
load powermon
load afp
load atps -v
load remote NRS
load rspx
load install
load monitor
mount vol1
mount vol5
mount vol3

STARTUP.NCF
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set display disk device alerts=onload aha1540 port=330
load aha1540 above16=y port=330
load aha1740 slot=1
load aha1740 slot=2
load MAC

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| David Townsend                                               |
| Computing Services Administrator                             |
| UBC Faculty of Law                                           |
|                                                              |
| Tel:  604-822-2862     Internet:  David_Townsend@mtsg.ubc.ca |
| Fax:  604-822-8108     BITNET:    USERDTOW@UBCMTSG           |
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