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Re: PCI cards on Ultra5



Hi,

On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 07:59:19PM +0200, Christian Euler wrote:
> Hi Geert,
> 
> > > Is there anything special about PCI support on UltraSparc?
> > Not as far I known.
> >
> > I think the original poster is encountering hardware defects.
> >
> > Hardware test to preform:
> > * place a known to be working PCI (Network) card in the Ultra 5
> >
> > * place the PCI USB card in known to be working PCI slot.
> 
> I ripped the USB card off my wife's PC (where it was working fine).
> I also tried other cards on the Ultra, without success.
> 
> The machine itself runs pretty stable, I used it for about 8 hours yesterday
> without any glitches. So I don't want to talk about a hardware problem yet. ;)

There are various success and fail stories of putting USB PCI cards in Ultra
5's. I once heard that U5's only like PCI 2.1 cards and not 2.2 (see e.g.
http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2007/12/msg00012.html). Don't know if it's
true.

You might try a different USB card.

HTH

Admar


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