[geeks] Ultra5 not playing nice with a quad-port ethernet card

[Patrick Finnegan]

On Tuesday, September 06, 2011, JP Hindin wrote:
> Greetings all;
> 
> I've been working on getting the SSP to my E10k working. At first I
> thought I had a memory issue but it turns out, to my surprise, that
> the U5 doesn't appear to like its 501-5406 quad-port ethernet card.
> 
> With the card in, on power-on the first thing I get is "Data access
> error" and I get dumped into OBP. A 'boot disk' will give me a
> "Memory Address not Aligned" error and back into OBP. Removal of the
> card gives me a standard POST with boot from disk.
> 
> I tried this quad card in my second ("new") U5 with the same error.
> 
> I dug around and found a second, much earlier revision, of 501-5406
> card in an E450. To my amazement this card also gives the same error
> in both U5s.
> 
> Now I'm thoroughly confused. I know this card came with this U5 and
> I'm under the impression it is, in this setup, needed for the U5 to
> operate as an SSP.
> 
> Am I daft? Or is something rather odd going on here?

Have you tried reseating the riser card?  It sounds like a PCI bus 
problem.

-- 
Patrick Finnegan