Connecting Procurve 2848 to Nortel 8000 switch via fibre 1

[arcticangel]

I have an older Nortel passport 8000 switch with a 450-1SX MDA installed (1000SX SC connectors). I have connected it to an HP Procurve 2848 switch with a J458B Gigabit-SX LC Mini-GBIC module installed. The fibre cable I used was a 10m SC-LC multimode 62.5/125 cable. In the stats page for the HP Procurve, I am getting a large number of Rx errors (3445) and FCS Rx errors (754) out of a total 115,329,281 Bytes Rx. I tried replacing the cable with another similar one, but same problem. Both switches are showing their ports to be configured as 1000FDx. As I have no experience with interconnecting dissimilar equipment via fibre, I'm hoping someone will have a suggestion.

 

[HungryHouse]

Try turning off autonegotiation on both sides of the link.
Nortel SX GBICs are infamous for this.

 

[arcticangel]

Even though the applicable ports on both switches were displaying configurations that seem to match, I tried your suggestion and the errors have dropped to zero. I have had to this before on the Nortel ethernet ports but the switch config actually showed a mismatch in those cases. Thank-you for your assistance.

 

[HungryHouse]

You're welcome- have a great Easter weekend.
-HH