MGXPEC Daughterboard

[motox2]

Hello, i was wondering if there was a procedure for reloading the daughterboard for an MGXPEC card? I have already run through the following procedure.... Load Gold image, disk format "all", mgcIPClear, reboot, enter IP detail, reboot, etc. i mean i know how to factory load an MGXPEC, but i have never had to deal with daughterboards. Since they are built on the MGXPEC, theres not much to deal with anyway unlike the MGC card where they are actual daughterboards. In any case after i go through the entire reload procedure and join the SECDOMAIN, i log into the MGXPEC and run the command "dsphwcheck" and the card reports both Daughterboards 1+2 are not installed. I thought that when the card downloads all the load ware it takes care of the daughter board cards, but thats not the case. I suspect this is a bad card, since i have plenty of cards in the system with the latest deplist and load ware for the system. Any help on loading the MGXPEC daughterboards would be great. Below is capture of what the MAC address looks like for each DB after it downloaded all the loadware and after its final boot up sequence.

Engcode: NTDW20AAE6 REL 03
ELAN mac address is: 3c:b1:5b:49:1f:d4
TLAN mac address is: 3c:b1:5b:49:1f:d3
RESET reason: Hard Reset.
Daughter board 1: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff.
Daughter board 2: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff.
FPGA VERSION: AA21

Power up self test passed

 

[Firebird Scrambler]

Many years ago I was involved with the MGXPEC setup when they were first introduced at 6.0. We had many issues and I recall having to reflash the compact flash card with the factory default copy I made via the Acronis software as we couldn't find a way at that time of getting them to link up to the CPPM processor.

I've attached a guide that we had been given. I don't know if it will help?.


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[motox2]

Thanks Firebird, i appreciate you taking care of me. I tried to download the link, but its broken. Can you check it and maybe repost it? thank you

 

[Firebird Scrambler]

Sorry about that. I hope it's there this time.


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[motox2]

Hey thanks Firebird. You mentioned you made a copy of the MGXPEC CF card with acronis software, and burned it over to another card???? Not sure if I'm tracking you there. Does the NTP you attached have a procedure for dealing with the MGXPEC CF card? thanks again

 

[Firebird Scrambler]

Because the card and procedure was untried at that time. I was told that we were the only customer who were installing it as it was that new on the market and therefore the support wasn't as good as we would have liked.

The reason being was that we were migrating 4 option 61/81 systems onto one CPPM card which meant loads of serious programming which couldn't be started until the MGXPEC cards were syncronized correctly. We had at that time all the kit in Europe and therefore we could only work on it out of hours and we either had to get it done one shelf at a time or revert back to the original setup.

We suspected that we had corruption on the CF cards and since there weren't any spares, we decided to clone one of them without it even being powered up so that we always had a day one copy to play with.

I found that Acronis 2009 worked fine in ding an image and then a restore back. I recall that it was very messy splitting the cards to get at the CF inside them. I consider them to have been a hasty solution to making the good old cubes IP enabled.

Sorry for the long burst of history, but I haven't touched one since then. The attached guide was what we used.


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Nortel Meridian 1 / Succession and BCM / Norstar Programmer in the UK
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[motox2]

thanks again, i appreciate the help. So when you made the copy of the CF with Acronis, did you just take a CF from one of the known working cards and duplicate over onto another CF card? Its sounds easy enough, but i can't believe avaya support wouldn't have this image for the MGXPEC CF card out on their site. I even did a search for it there, but no luck. Would that be on ESPL you think?

 

[Firebird Scrambler]

As I may have stated, my customer was in effect one of the first sites to deploy the MGXPEC cards and we used a "day 1" copy off the Compact Flash card as an image.


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[Firebird Scrambler]

I've found a document that is 27 megs all about the MGXPEC card that is two big for me to upload. Contact me via the link below and I'll give you access to it.

Look inside it for details

http://www.ghtrout.com/conversionutility

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[motox2]

FireBird,
Thanks for all your help, but through hours of research on this thing, i got it figured out. I rebuilt both of my nad MGXPEC's that were classified as bad. SO anyhoo... i am going to write a FAQ on how to rebuild an MGXPEC and get that uploaded soon. Its really not that involved, as the procedure will show. Thanks again

PS is there an NTP# or document# of the document you mentioned in your last response?

 

[Firebird Scrambler]

The file that I have is pretty well detailed and explains it very well. It's dated 2009.


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[Firebird Scrambler]

I've managed to find the original Acronis images that I did in 2010 if you need them. let me know and I'll give you a link to upload them.

It's good that you managed to get them working again,


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Nortel Meridian 1 / Succession and BCM / Norstar Programmer in the UK
Advance knowledge on BCM support

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[motox2]

Hi Firebird,
I was just curious about the image you have. I am familiar with acronis software, but I'm not sure if its neccessary since the CF card on the MGXPEC takes loadware on the call server. The daughterboards don't have software as far as i can see, but they are programmable with information such as: NNTM#, Rxx, Serial#, and NTDW#. What i did was to simply install a blank 128MB CF, boot up to the gold image, execute diskformat "a", then a mgcIPClear. Reboot and enter IP info, reboot again and the MGXPEC pulls down the loadware from the call server and all is good. Now if the image your referring to, is the gold image, then yes i would be interested in that along with a procedure on how to load it up. Let me know. thank you much!!!