I had the exactly same problem today.
In my case the cause was the arbiter source. This has to be the backplane.
Try this:
Remove completely the jumpers from J15 pin 18 and J15 pin 21 on the EBSA-285
Ensure that the etchlinks EL5, EL6, EL7 are not cut on the PCI development
backplane, or if they are cut, then jumper 1-2 on J9, J10, and J15
Paul Robertson
-----Original Message-----
From: Gaixia Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tuesday, November 02, 1999 11:04 AM
Subject: BIOS 1.05: hangs at reading VENDOR_ID (reading at 0x7bc0 0000) on
EBSA285
>Hi,
>
>I am trying to use Russell's BIOS to boot Linux on my EBSA285 while it
>hangs
>
>at reading VENDOR_ID in pci_read_config_word() in pci_init(), it is
>actually
>
> ldrh ... [0x7bc00000]
>
>Anybody has similar experience? I suspect there is something wrong with
>PCI
>
>BUS Arbitration (Backplane doing arbitration), but I checked serveral
>times,
>
>and use two different backplanes, it always gives the same result,
>
>Thank you very much for your help,
>Gaixia
>
>
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