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Conference netcad::hub_mgnt

Title:	DEChub/HUBwatch/PROBEwatch CONFERENCE
Notice:	Firmware -2, Doc -3, Power -4, HW kits -5, firm load -6&7
Moderator:	NETCAD::COLELLADT

Created:	Wed Nov 13 1991
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	4455
Total number of notes:	16761

1942.0. "PacketPROBE firmware update failure - now what?" by SEFI04::VOLKMAN () Fri Jan 27 1995 16:14

	I searched around for a note but didn't find one that seemed to
	address what I consider to be a very obvious problem.  What do
	do if the flash update fails and power goes away...

	I was trying to update a PacketPROBE 90 module using the,
	shall we say for politeness sake, "less than robust" PC version
	of decndup and after failing for the 12th time to get the
	update loaded we lost power.  When it came back the probe announces
	on its console: "Branching to Flash code at Address 3006ab0" and
	just sits there.  Not surprising since it had zeroed it.

	So what do I have now, a doorstop?
-Bill V.

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
1942.1	Fixed in next release???	SEFI04::VOLKMAN		`Mon Jan 30 1995 05:20`	6
	I found note 1204 which seems to imply that I now have a very expensive paperweight. I hope that this gets fixed in V+1 because I know some customers who would send the whole thing (hub et al) back to us because of poor design. Sigh, Bill V.
1942.2	See note 1845.	TROFS::WEBSTER	NIS, London, Canada	`Thu Feb 02 1995 17:08`	10
	See note 1845 for full diescription of problem. I recently had the same problem and had MCS replace the unit. Unfortunately, it was replaced with another V1 PacketProbe. I saw HUBload yesterday, so I am going to contact John NETCAD::Furino about becoming a test site....it may be only way to upgrade the probe on from a DOS system. -Larry
1942.3	One for me	KETJE::VANDENBERG_R		`Wed Feb 15 1995 11:44`	7
	Hi, Is somebody is taking traks of the amount of tftp failure with brain dead probe you can count one for me. B.r. Robert