Re: ECA_BADTYPE

[Steven Hartman <hartman@fel.duke.edu>]

On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Geoff Savage wrote:

> We moved a computer in our control room yesterday and the CA clients are
> returning a status of ECA_BADTYPE for some of the reads.  The record
> being read is one unique to our hardware.  The field is of type
> DBR_LONG.  The switch reports errors on the port to which the host is
> connected.  These errors are Align-Err and FCS-Err.

FCS-err is a frame check sequence error, i.e. failed checksum for that
ethernet packet. Such packets are discarded by the device receiving them.
An FCS error suggests a bad ethernet cable / connection or too long of
cable. However the alignment error suggests a speed mismatch.

Since your errors appeared after a computer move, I would check that port
and cable for problems. There is also the possibility that the machine is
now attached to a different type of switch then previously which could
explain a speed mismatch. If so, configure the port on that switch with
the appropriate speed and duplex settings rather than letting it
autonegotiate and see if your problems go away.

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Steve Hartman
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