Admar Schoonen wrote:
Hi,
On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 07:59:19PM +0200, Christian Euler wrote:
Hi Geert,
Is there anything special about PCI support on UltraSparc?
Not as far I known.
I think the original poster is encountering hardware defects.
Hardware test to preform:
* place a known to be working PCI (Network) card in the Ultra 5
* place the PCI USB card in known to be working PCI slot.
I ripped the USB card off my wife's PC (where it was working fine).
I also tried other cards on the Ultra, without success.
The machine itself runs pretty stable, I used it for about 8 hours yesterday
without any glitches. So I don't want to talk about a hardware problem yet. ;)
There are various success and fail stories of putting USB PCI cards in Ultra
5's. I once heard that U5's only like PCI 2.1 cards and not 2.2 (see e.g.
http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2007/12/msg00012.html). Don't know if it's
true.
You might try a different USB card.
HTH
Admar
My recollection of the previous discussion was that some cards, believed
to be PCI 2.2, locked up a PCI-Based SPARC system (possibly an Ultra-5)
without any detectable activity. It was surmised that the SPARC system
was compatible with PCI 2.1 but not with 2.2.
Having recently had a very similar problem on some Compaq x86 systems
with much-newer PCI USB cards fitted, i.e. the computer was either dead
or booted a small number of times and then died, I believe that PCI
compatibility might be a major issue.
However the OP (Christian) did have a system that ran, so it might in
practice be the usual sort of driver problem rather than a fundamental
incompatibility.
My advice would be to keep an eye on eBay looking for older/slower USB
cards, i.e. /not/ 480Mbit/sec v2. I know it shouldn't happen but in my
experience peripherals always work best with machines roughly comparable
with what was current when they were designed and tested.
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