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Title: Maintenance Log: SIDEMODCOM Failure

System: Rack Unit 4 / Blade Server AX-7 Component: SIDEMODCOM (Side-Modular Communication Bus)

Issue Reported: At 03:14 UTC, the SIDEMODCOM bus lost arbitration between the primary RAID controller and the side-mounted SSD cache module. The system logged a "Bus Contention Error" followed by a kernel panic. sidemodcom

Root Cause Analysis: The side-module connector (J402) exhibited thermal expansion gaps, causing intermittent grounding. This disrupted the differential signaling pairs used for sideband communication.

Resolution:

Status: Operational.

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