Subject: Re: 1.5.2, KFQSA & KA640
To: Michael Schneider <ms@silke.rt.schwaben.de>
From: Lord Isildur <mrfusion@umbar.vaxpower.org>
List: port-vax
Date: 10/29/2001 15:54:22
how does it fail? do you manage to boot, and then have problems later, or 
does it bomb trying to init the cache, etc?

isildur

On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Michael Schneider wrote:

> No reaction the first time, so i'll try it again:
> 
> 
> Hello Gurus,
> 
> i recently aqquired a KFQSA for my MV3400. The card works fine, the
> disks
> work like a charm, and if i use a 1.5-kernel everything is smooth
> sailing.
> 
> Except for the cache on the KA640, thinks i. So i upgraded to 1.5.2 and
> the KFQSA stopped working ("unknown controller error 0101511"). Same for
> KA650 CPU's.
> 
> So i disabled the cache in 1.5.2, and the KA640/KFQSA resp. the
> KA650/KFQSA
> combination works again. Then i got curious and tried the KA650 with
> 1.5,
> where the 650's cache is used, and bingo: no-go.
> 
> So i declare: it's the cache.
> 
> Has this been already noticed by someone? Or maybe even fixed? Like, in
> NetBSD-current?
> 
> Thank you for your support....
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Michael Schneider                       email: ms@silke.rt.schwaben.de
> Germany                                  http://www.vaxcluster.de
> 
>             People disagree with me.  I just ignore them.
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>