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

[Jonathan Patschke]

On Tue, 6 Sep 2011, JP Hindin wrote:

> 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.

What OBP revision are you running?  Sun changed the PCI-PCI bridge chip
midway through the life cycle of that card.  You'll need a late firmware
revision for it to be properly recognized and probed.

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