Chapter 6 Troubleshooting the System Hardware

Error Symptoms

BIOS level

WAAS system software type and version level

To eliminate confusion, identical systems are considered identical only if they meet all these conditions:

Are the exact machine type and models

Have the same BIOS level

Have the same devices or attachments in the same locations

Have the same cabling

Have the same WAAS software versions and levels

Have the same configuration options set in the system

Have the same setup for the operating system control files

Comparing the configuration and software setup in working and nonworking systems might help to resolve the problem.

Error Symptoms

You can use the error symptom tables to find solutions to problems that have definite symptoms.

In the following tables (Table 6-2to Table 6-8), the first entry in the “Cause and Action” column is the most likely cause of the symptom.

Table 6-2

Hard Disk Drive Problems

 

 

 

Symptom

 

Cause and Action

 

 

Hard disk drive stops

1. Remove the hard disk drive that stopped responding and try

responding during system

starting the appliance again.

startup.

 

2. If the system starts successfully, the drive that you removed needs

 

 

 

 

to be replaced.

 

 

A hard disk drive was not

Reseat all hard disk drives and cables.

detected while the operating

 

system was being started.

 

 

 

 

Table 6-3

General Problems

 

 

 

Symptom

 

Cause and Action

 

 

Problems such as broken cover

Broken component. Call your customer service representative.

latch or indicator LEDs not

 

working.

 

 

 

 

 

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Cisco Systems WAVE594K9, 694 manual Error Symptoms, Symptom Cause and Action

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