glen@aecom.yu.edu (Glen M. Marianko) (07/22/89)
I am having trouble using the NI5210 packet driver distributed by
Clarkson on a board that has only 8K on it. The driver fails with
"Timed out while initializing 5210." when I try to load a driver
on a 5210 that either has an empty memory socket or a novell remote
boot prom in it (i.e. 8K RAM only). I have tried this on a few
different machines.
A quick look as the source code (last update 4/27/89) shows that
the driver pokes out 5 words to the upper 8K (a potentially bad
practice if the upper 8k isn't there), but the comments say it
doesn't use it. I could not find any information in the
documentation as to whether the driver was written for a 16k
configuration.
Any help/patches would be appreciated.
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-- Glen M. Marianko, Supervisor of Data Communications and Hardware Support
glen@aecom.yu.edu - {uunet}!aecom!glen - CIS: 76247,450nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) (07/22/89)
In article <2353@aecom.yu.edu> glen@aecom.yu.edu (Glen M. Marianko) writes:
I am having trouble using the NI5210 packet driver distributed by
Clarkson on a board that has only 8K on it. The driver fails with
"Timed out while initializing 5210." when I try to load a driver
on a 5210 that either has an empty memory socket or a novell remote
boot prom in it (i.e. 8K RAM only). I have tried this on a few
different machines.
If you can wait a week, a fixed version will be available. If you're
just itching to fix it yourself, then change:
ISCPTR EQU B + 03feeh ; my address for ISCP, points to SCB
SCPTR EQU B + 03ff6h ; hardwired address for SCP
to
ISCPTR EQU B + 01feeh ; my address for ISCP, points to SCB
SCPTR EQU B + 01ff6h ; hardwired address for SCP
and you will be much happier.
-russ
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