davidj@cernvax.UUCP (davidj) (12/07/88)
Does anyone have a working Inmos B011 Transputer card. i.e one which will act a a VME master, a VME slave, pass the TDS network tester program and pass on the IACKIN/OUT VMEbus signals without corrupting them, and even have the 2Mbytes of dram working ??????? We have four of them, two originals which have different errors, and two brand new, shining replacements especially shipped to us beacause the first two don't work. And guess what, only one works !!!! Are we alone in our problems ? Is a 75% failure rate normal ?
paul@amos.ling.ucsd.edu (Paul Smith) (12/10/88)
We have a working B011. We went through three of them very fast but we've been running with this one reliably for several months. The boards are very fragile, in fact I'm afraid to unseat our current board as that has led to failures. We've also had a board go out when adding a TRAM module, or trying to bring the links off the PGA header. So I'd say 75% is about right, although we didn't have any failures out of the box. If you haven't tried so already you should try a different transputer in your B011 because we've had one or two of them go out on us too. Paul