An I/O transaction completed with a non-zero residue count. This
is to be expected under normal I/O conditions.
CAUSE
DMA transferred fewer bytes than specified.
ACTION
No action required.
44
MESSAGE
An asynchronous interrupt from a device adapter card was
detected, but no associated DMA was found. The interrupt is treated as
being spurious in nature.
CAUSE
Noisy signal from the CIO bus connector cable.
ACTION
Check the CIO bus connector cable and replace if necessary.
46
MESSAGE
A spurious timer event message was received without an
associated request info block. The timer event was discarded,
assuming it to be spurious in nature.
CAUSE
Software race condition with the timer subsystem.
ACTION
No action required.
51
MESSAGE
A request to enable parity checking for a device adapter card
must be denied, because this version of the channel does not support
parity.
CAUSE
CIO channel adapter hardware version does not support parity
checking.
ACTION
No action required.
129
MESSAGE
The CIO-specific third-level interrupt handler failed to send an
interrupt event notification message to the associated CHANNEL ADAPTER
MANAGER.
CAUSE
Interrupt Completion List has been corrupted.
ACTION
Take a system dump for analysis.
150
MESSAGE
The CHANNEL ADAPTER MANAGER has been set to a "BROKEN" state by
the diagnostic subsystem. In this state, the channel adapter hardware
is assumed to be broken, such that no I/O transaction can be
successfully completed.
CAUSE
The CIO channel adapter hardware is broken.
ACTION
Refer to the diagnostic subsystem or replace the
CIO channel adapter hardware.
151
MESSAGE
The CHANNEL ADAPTER MANAGER has received an event message for
which an action procedure is not known. This generally occurs during
anomalous manager state transitions, such as powerfail
recovery.
CAUSE
Software error reported.
ACTION
No action required.
152
MESSAGE
The CHANNEL ADAPTER MANAGER has received a message that contains
a descriptor of unknown value in the header. The message is thrown
away and no further action is taken.
CAUSE
Software error reported.
ACTION
No action required.
153
MESSAGE
The CHANNEL ADAPTER MANAGER is in an ILLEGAL STATE condition.
A possible cause for this condition is the corruption of the port
data area.
CAUSE
Software error reported.
ACTION
No action required.
154
MESSAGE
The CHANNEL ADAPTER MANAGER has received a request message that
can not be legally accepted and processed in its current state. An
error reply message is returned to the originator of the
request.
CAUSE
Software reported.
ACTION
No action required.
155
MESSAGE
The CHANNEL ADAPTER MANAGER has been invoked with no associated
message. This is a catastrophic error and no action is taken by the
manager, except to notify the diagnostic subsystem of the
error.
CAUSE
A problem exists with IPC in SEND_MSG interface.
ACTION
Take a system dump for analysis.
156
MESSAGE
The CHANNEL ADAPTER MANAGER encountered a system or I/O
SERVICES error during the processing of an I/O transaction. The general
nature of system service errors will tend to be in the IPC or
timer services.
CAUSE
A system service error occurred.
ACTION
Take a system dump for analysis.
157
MESSAGE
The channel hardware reported an undefined subchannel state
error condition. In response, the associated device adapter card is
reset by the CHANNEL ADAPTER MANAGER to clear the error
condition.
CAUSE
Bad CIO connector cable or defective device adapter card.
ACTION
Run diagnostics on the device adapter card.
159
MESSAGE
The channel hardware reported a subchannel RTS buffer OVERRUN
error condition. The maximum RTS message allowed is 16 bytes. The
associated device adapter card is reset by the CHANNEL ADAPTER MANAGER
to clear the error condition.
CAUSE
Bad I/O connector cable or defective device adapter card.
ACTION
Run diagnostics on the device adapter card.
160
MESSAGE
The channel hardware reported a SRQ assertion on an inactive
subchannel. This is generally a noise problem on the CIO
backplane.
CAUSE
Bad I/O connector cable or defective device adapter card.
ACTION
Run diagnostics on the device adapter card.
161
MESSAGE
The channel hardware reported an unknown subchannel DMA command.
In response to this error condition, the device adapter card is reset
by the CHANNEL ADAPTER MANAGER.
CAUSE
Bad CIO connector or defective device adapter card.
ACTION
Run diagnostics on the device adapter card.
162
MESSAGE
The channel hardware reported an unknown subchannel error. The
CHANNEL ADAPTER MANAGER, in response, will reset the associated device
adapter card.
CAUSE
Bad I/O connector cable or defective device adapter card.
ACTION
Run diagnostics on the device adapter card.
164
MESSAGE
The channel hardware did not detect the expected assertion of
the MYAD line during a subchannel primitive addressing operation. The
device adapter card is reset to clear the subchannel error
condition.
CAUSE
Bad CIO connector cable or defective device adapter card.
ACTION
Run diagnostics on the device adapter card.
165
MESSAGE
The channel hardware reported a subchannel data parity error
condition. In response, the device adapter card is reset by the CHANNEL
ADAPTER MANAGER to clear the error condition.
CAUSE
Bad CIO connector cable or defective device adapter card.
ACTION
Run diagnostics on the device adapter card.
167
MESSAGE
The channel hardware reported a catastrophic module error with
an undefined error code. The entire channel is reset by the CHANNEL
ADAPTER MANAGER to clear the error condition.
CAUSE
CIO channel adapter hardware or bus error.
ACTION
Run diagnostics on the channel adapter card.
168
MESSAGE
The channel hardware reported a catastrophic module error where
an ARQ line was asserted on the CIO backplane, but no device adapter
card responded to the ARQ poll. The entire channel is reset to clear
the error condition.
CAUSE
CIO channel adapter hardware or bus error occurred.
ACTION
Run diagnostics on the channel adapter.
169
MESSAGE
The channel hardware reported a catastrophic module error where
no response was found to a midbus address transaction. In response, the
entire channel is reset to clear the error condition.
CAUSE
CIO channel adapter hardware or bus error.
ACTION
Run diagnostics on the channel adapter.
170
MESSAGE
The channel hardware reported a catastrophic module error where,
as master on midbus, a PROTOCOL error was detected. The entire channel
is reset in order to clear the error condition.
CAUSE
CIO channel adapter hardware or bus error.
ACTION
Run diagnostics on the channel adapter.
171
MESSAGE
The channel hardware reported a catastrophic module error where
a data parity error was detected during a midbus transaction. The
entire channel is reset in order to clear the error
condition.
CAUSE
CIO channel adapter hardware or bus error.
ACTION
Run diagnostics on the channel adapter.
172
MESSAGE
The channel hardware reported an error caused by a diagnostic
loopback test.
CAUSE
Bad CIO channel adapter hardware.
ACTION
Replace channel adapter hardware.
175
MESSAGE
The channel hardware received an invalid (not decodable)
command.
CAUSE
Bad CIO channel adapter hardware.
ACTION
Replace CIO channel adapter hardware.
176
MESSAGE
The channel hardware reported a catastrophic internal module
error condition. In response, the entire channel is reset by the
CHANNEL ADAPTER MANAGER in order to clear the error
condition.
CAUSE
Bad CIO channel adapter hardware.
ACTION
Replace CIO channel adapter hardware.
181
MESSAGE
The internal request information block list is not consistent.
This list is doubly linked and is used to track all I/O transactions
on the channel hardware.
CAUSE
Channel Adapter Manager (CAM) data structure corruption.
ACTION
Take a system dump for analysis.
182
MESSAGE
An internal table structure is not consistent. These tables
manage resource allocation for I/O transactions on the channel
hardware.
CAUSE
Channel Adapter Manager (CAM) data structure corruption.
ACTION
Take a system dump for analysis.
183
MESSAGE
The INTERNAL REQUEST INFO BLOCK TABLE has been exhausted of free
entries. The request info blocks are used to track I/O transactions
on the channel hardware.
CAUSE
Too many concurrent I/O requests were activated on the
channel.
ACTION
Increase the load field in the SYSGEN I/O configuration file
for the channel to 256.
184
MESSAGE
The internal STATUS BLOCK TABLE has been exhausted of free
entries. The status blocks are used in building physical quad chains
to return DMA residue count information.
CAUSE
Too many concurrent I/O requests were activated
on the channel.
ACTION
Increase the load field in the system I/O configuration
file for the channel to 256.
185
MESSAGE
The internal QUAD ENTRY TABLE has been exhausted of free
entries. The quad entries are used in building physical quad chains
to perform DMA operations.
CAUSE
Too many concurrent I/O requests were activated
on the channel.
ACTION
Increase the load field in the SYSGEN I/O configuration file
for the channel to 256.
186
MESSAGE
The internal LOGCHANNEL TABLE has been exhausted of free
entries. A unique LOGCHANNEL number is assigned to each active I/O
transaction on the channel hardware.
CAUSE
Too many concurrent I/O requests were activated
on the channel.
ACTION
Increase the load field in the SYSGEN I/O configuration file
for the channel to 256.
191
MESSAGE
The interrupt completion list contained an invalid list address.
When a DMA operation is completed, the channel hardware updates this
list before sending a completion interrupt.
CAUSE
Interrupt completion list has been corrupted.
ACTION
Take a system dump for analysis.
192
MESSAGE
The partial residue completion list contained an invalid list
address. This list is updated by the channel hardware to return residue
count information on a DMA order completion.
CAUSE
Residue completion list has been corrupted.
ACTION
Take a system dump for analysis.
195
MESSAGE
The CHANNEL ADAPTER MANAGER attempted a diagnostic loopback
test, but failed.
CAUSE
Defective CIO channel adapter hardware.
ACTION
Replace CIO channel adapter hardware.
196
MESSAGE
The CHANNEL ADAPTER MANAGER attempted a diagnostic hardware
selftest, but failed.
CAUSE
Defective CIO channel adapter hardware.
ACTION
Replace CIO channel adapter hardware.
200
MESSAGE
The event handling procedure detected an invalid lock event
option.
CAUSE
Software error reported.
ACTION
No action required.
206
MESSAGE
The reply to a request message could not be sent, because the
descriptor field in the request message header was
illegal.
CAUSE
Software error reported.
ACTION
No action required.
207
MESSAGE
The WAIT sequence number in the request information block for a
DMA transaction is illegal. This sequence number determines the next
step to start, resume, or abort a DMA transaction.
CAUSE
Channel Adapter Manager (CAM) data structure corruption.
ACTION
Take a system dump for analysis.
208
MESSAGE
The SELFTEST sequence number in the request information block
for a SELFTEST request is illegal. This sequence number determines the
next step to complete the device adapter SELFTEST
sequence.
CAUSE
Channel Adapter Manager (CAM) data structure corruption.
ACTION
Take a system dump for analysis.
209
MESSAGE
The CONTROL FUNCTION specified in a CIO control request message
is illegal. In response, an error reply message is returned to the
requestor.
CAUSE
Software error reported.
ACTION
No action required.
211
MESSAGE
A timer event message was received specifying an illegal
request number.
CAUSE
Software error reported.
ACTION
No action required.
213
MESSAGE
The device adapter detected a LOGCHANNEL error trap condition
while processing an I/O transaction. The transaction is forced to
terminate prematurely with accompanying reported status
information.
CAUSE
Hardware error reported.
ACTION
No action required.
214
MESSAGE
An upper DMA requested a destructive operation while it had
other requests pending.
CAUSE
Software error reported.
ACTION
No action required.
216
MESSAGE
The device adapter aborted an I/O transaction spontaneously,
without a direct order to destroy the transaction.
CAUSE
Hardware error reported.
ACTION
No action required.
219
MESSAGE
A request message contains an illegal buffer address class
field.
CAUSE
Software error reported.
ACTION
No action required.
220
MESSAGE
A request message specifies an illegal device adapter
address.
CAUSE
Software error reported.
ACTION
No action required.
221
MESSAGE
The DEVICE ADAPTER is not ready to receive a
command.
CAUSE
Defective device adapter card.
ACTION
Run diagnostics on the device adapter card.
222
MESSAGE
The DEVICE ADAPTER encountered a SUBCHANNEL ERROR TRAP while
processing an I/O transaction.
CAUSE
Defective device adapter card.
ACTION
Run diagnostics on the device adapter card.
223
MESSAGE
The DEVICE ADAPTER is not ready to accept an RSC (resume
subchannel) command. As a result, the subchannel is assumed to be in a
permanently PAUSED condition.
CAUSE
Defective device adapter card.
ACTION
Run diagnostics on the device adapter card.
224
MESSAGE
The channel hardware has set a SUBCHANNEL in a not ready to
start DMA state. This error condition is indicative of a hung device
adapter card.
CAUSE
Defective device adapter card.
ACTION
Run diagnostics on the device adapter card.
225
MESSAGE
The virtual quad chain contains an illegal CLC (connect
LOGCHANNEL) order.
CAUSE
Software error reported.
ACTION
No action required.
226
MESSAGE
The virtual quad chain contains an ILLEGAL DISCONNECT
ORDER.
CAUSE
Software error reported.
ACTION
No action required.
227
MESSAGE
The virtual quad chain specified an ILLEGAL TERMINATING
ORDER.
CAUSE
Software error reported.
ACTION
No action required.
228
MESSAGE
The virtual quad chain specified an order with the DMA continue
bit set in an illegal manner.
CAUSE
Software error reported.
ACTION
No action required.
229
MESSAGE
The virtual quad chain specified an illegal CLC (connect
LOGCHANNEL) buffer.
CAUSE
Software error reported.
ACTION
No action required.
230
MESSAGE
The virtual quad chain specified a buffer not aligned to a
64-byte boundary.
CAUSE
Software error reported.
ACTION
No action required.
231
MESSAGE
The virtual quad chain specified a DMA buffer not frozen in
memory.
CAUSE
Software error reported.
ACTION
No action required.
232
MESSAGE
The channel hardware reported a loss of power to the CIO
backplane. As a result, all DMA activity is terminated in an unknown
state.
CAUSE
Remote CIO power loss reported.
ACTION
No action required.
233
MESSAGE
The channel hardware is not ready for a command. This error
condition can never occur on a functioning channel.
CAUSE
Defective CIO channel adapter hardware.
ACTION
Replace CIO channel adapter hardware.
236
MESSAGE
Channel hardware configuration specifies an invalid I/O module
adapter type in the IODC ROM.