carey@s.cs.uiuc.edu (11/18/88)
We have a vax 780 with two memory controllers -- each has 4-meg of 256K boards. We had started out with two 780's with 4-meg each, but then put both 4-meg modules on one 780 and bought an 8-meg module for the other one. My problem is this -- occasionally when we have a power disruption, the second memory controller does not get initialized properly. There is some status register on the memory controller that does not get set right when the power is sequenced a certain way. If you do get the right sequence of powering things up, everything is fine, but sometimes it just gets very difficult to get things to work right that way. One time, when we had DEC support, I called them up about this problem, and they stepped me through depositing the right bit in whatever register the 2d memory controller has. But now we don't have DEC support and I didn't save the procedure for clearing that register. Does anyone have any ideas?