ZEFFI@FINABO.BITNET.UUCP (03/05/87)
We have had an IVECS card in our VAX-11/785 since november 1986. It is configured to simulate 6 DMF-controllers (48 ports). We had problems from the very beginning with this card. Sometimes the card rebooted itself throwing all the users out from the machine. It seems that the reboot had something to do with the boot of the VMS, because it always happened 1-2 days after the VMS boot. We got a new card from Bridge (via Nokia, their representant in Finland) and then in January the reboot didn't longer occur. Instead of booting itself it got all locked up. We had to open the unibus cabinet and boot the Ivecs card with the boot switch on the card. Sometimes the card was so confused that the switch didn't help, we had to power the unibus down to make the Ivecs card boot. This card is also replaced 2 or 3 times. We have also had the same problems that Yehavi Bourvine mentioned in his notice: after a while (a couple of days, maybe a week) some of the ports didn't work anymore, they accepted data and started the login-process but the user didn't see any output coming from the port. Bridge told us that it will work ok with 4.5 (that's what we are running) so the problem is not with VMS. I checked the actual configuration (sysgen SHOW/CONFIG) with the configuration VMS wants (sysgen CONFIG) and got the following reults: (we have already a DMF32-card in the VAX making the total number of DMFs = 7) SYSGEN> SHOW/CONF System CSR and Vectors on 5-MAR-1987 09:23:30.98 Name: PUA Units: 1 Nexus:3 (UBA) CSR: 772150 Vector1: 774 Vector2: 000 Name: PTA Units: 1 Nexus:3 (UBA) CSR: 774500 Vector1: 260 Vector2: 000 Name: XGA Units: 1 Nexus:3 (UBA) CSR: 760404 Vector1: 310 Vector2: 314 Name: TXA Units: 8 Nexus:3 (UBA) CSR: 760414 Vector1: 330 Vector2: 334 Name: LCA Units: 1 Nexus:3 (UBA) CSR: 760424 Vector1: 340 Vector2: 000 Name: TXB Units: 8 Nexus:3 (UBA) CSR: 760454 Vector1: 370 Vector2: 374 Name: TXC Units: 8 Nexus:3 (UBA) CSR: 760514 Vector1: 430 Vector2: 434 Name: TXD Units: 8 Nexus:3 (UBA) CSR: 760554 Vector1: 470 Vector2: 474 Name: TXE Units: 8 Nexus:3 (UBA) CSR: 760614 Vector1: 530 Vector2: 534 Name: TXF Units: 8 Nexus:3 (UBA) CSR: 760654 Vector1: 570 Vector2: 574 Name: TXG Units: 8 Nexus:3 (UBA) CSR: 760714 Vector1: 630 Vector2: 634 Name: TXH Units: 16 Nexus:3 (UBA) CSR: 761040 Vector1: 650 Vector2: 654 Name: TXI Units: 16 Nexus:3 (UBA) CSR: 761060 Vector1: 660 Vector2: 664 Name: XNA Units: 1 Nexus:3 (UBA) CSR: 760050 Vector1: 300 Vector2: 304 SYSGEN> CONFIG DEVICE> dmf32,7 DEVICE> dhv11,2 DEVICE> dup11 DEVICE> ^Z Device: DUP11 Name: XWA CSR: 760050* Vector: 300* Support: no Device: DMF32 Name: COMB CSR: 760400* Vector: 310* Support: yes Device: DMF32 Name: COMB CSR: 760440* Vector: 350* Support: yes Device: DMF32 Name: COMB CSR: 760500* Vector: 410* Support: yes Device: DMF32 Name: COMB CSR: 760540* Vector: 450* Support: yes Device: DMF32 Name: COMB CSR: 760600* Vector: 510* Support: yes Device: DMF32 Name: COMB CSR: 760640* Vector: 550* Support: yes Device: DMF32 Name: COMB CSR: 760700* Vector: 610* Support: yes Device: DHV11 Name: TXA CSR: 761040* Vector: 650* Support: yes Device: DHV11 Name: TXB CSR: 761060* Vector: 660* Support: yes SYSGEN> ^Z VMS want the CSR of the first DMF on the IVECS card (TXB) to be 760440 and it is configured according to this, but the actual configuration shows that it is 760454. You can only configure the IVECS CSR addresses in increments of 40 (octal), 760400, 760440, 760500... The errorlog shows up some SSYN timeouts on the UNIBUS (we have had 5 of them, the first one from 16-feb-1987) and they look like this: **************************** ENTRY 9. **************************** ERROR SEQUENCE 810. LOGGED ON SID 018817CD "DW" INTERRUPT 16-FEB-1987 18:43:35.89 KA785 REV# 2.0 SERIAL# 1997. MFG PLANT 1. ERROR PC 80209C17 ERROR PSL 04080000 INTERRUPT PRIORITY LEVEL = 08. PREVIOUS MODE = KERNEL CURRENT MODE = KERNEL INTERRUPT STACK ADAPTER TR# 3. "DW" CSR 00000028 ADAPTER IS UBA 0. "DW" CR 0000007C CONFIGURATION INTERRUPT ENABLE SBI TO UNIBUS ERROR INT ENABLE UNIBUS TO SBI ERROR INT ENABLE BR INTERRUPT ENABLE INTERRUPT FIELD SWITCH "DW" SR 00000001 UNIBUS 'SSYN' TIMEOUT "DW" DCR 08000028 "DW" FMER 00000000 "DW" FUBAR 0000F86B UNIBUS ADDRESS = 76065X (OCTAL) ........ so..... is there somebody out there who can give us some hints on what is the source of our problems with the IVECS card... --zeffi Stefan Kronberg Abo Akademi Computing Centre Fanriksgatan 3B SF-20500 Abo FINLAND Bitnet-address: ZEFFI@FINABO.BITNET