Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Data Loss in Novell Due to Nonmaskable Interrupts and Novell Data Recovery

Sometimes, while working on Novell Netware server database, it may crash with the following abend:

"Abend 1 on P00: Server-5.00l: Nonmaskable Interrupt Processor Exception (Error code 000000B0)"

After this error message, the system freezes and you can´t access any data from the system. It can cause the serious problems of data loss.

Cause

This behavior occurs due to the Nonmaskable Interrupt or NMI. When it happens, no hardware or software parts of the Novell server remains in working state and thus server freeze occurs.

Read more from here : http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/71998