kenthephoneman
Vendor
I'll apologize for the fact that some details will be missing in the following. Hopefully there will be enough so that you can point me in the right direction and I'll try to get more details when I get back onsite next week.
I have taken over maintenance on a very old Mitel 200d 336 port system connected to an analog cabinet with 1005enh software on 3.5" discs.
In the last several months the owners have had to reboot the system anywhere from every other week to 2 times a week. The system comes back up w/o any glitches. It hasn't happened in a while so no one could really tell me the symptoms they see when they figure that the system needs rebooting.
I was there last week for the first time in 8 years. I tried to access the database from the console and got a statement on the console that the database was corrupted and could not get into maintenance or CDE. I connected to the maintenance port and could not get into programming either.
When we rebooted the system by turning off the shelf power and waiting 3 or 4 minutes the system reloaded just fine with the correct codes showing on the control card. I was able to get into any programming and connected my laptop to the printer port and got a printout and the data appeared to agree with an old copy that had been there some time.
Next problem. With they system seemingly behaving itself I though it would be good to do a disc backup since from what I could tell the last one was done in 2006 (printed on the disc). I went into maint. prog. and issued the copy command and could hear the discs being read but the system stopped and showed a disc error (don't remember exact wording) and would not go any further. I tried it 3 times with same result and this was within 20 minutes of a reboot.
Question, Since the system will reload and run until the next need to reboot could this be a disc problem, a drive problem or maybe a bad chip on the memory card or worse?
I appreciate any help
Ken
I have taken over maintenance on a very old Mitel 200d 336 port system connected to an analog cabinet with 1005enh software on 3.5" discs.
In the last several months the owners have had to reboot the system anywhere from every other week to 2 times a week. The system comes back up w/o any glitches. It hasn't happened in a while so no one could really tell me the symptoms they see when they figure that the system needs rebooting.
I was there last week for the first time in 8 years. I tried to access the database from the console and got a statement on the console that the database was corrupted and could not get into maintenance or CDE. I connected to the maintenance port and could not get into programming either.
When we rebooted the system by turning off the shelf power and waiting 3 or 4 minutes the system reloaded just fine with the correct codes showing on the control card. I was able to get into any programming and connected my laptop to the printer port and got a printout and the data appeared to agree with an old copy that had been there some time.
Next problem. With they system seemingly behaving itself I though it would be good to do a disc backup since from what I could tell the last one was done in 2006 (printed on the disc). I went into maint. prog. and issued the copy command and could hear the discs being read but the system stopped and showed a disc error (don't remember exact wording) and would not go any further. I tried it 3 times with same result and this was within 20 minutes of a reboot.
Question, Since the system will reload and run until the next need to reboot could this be a disc problem, a drive problem or maybe a bad chip on the memory card or worse?
I appreciate any help
Ken