[powerstation-owners] Alignment Exception w/NetXen adapter installed

[Adrian Reber]

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 05:00:33PM -0500, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> Today's fun-with-a-powerstation issue: I dropped a NetXen 10GbE NIC in 
> (pci-e 8x card), and now I'm not even able to get out of openfirmware:
> 
>   Switching top HT bus to 800MHz...
>   Adapters on 00000000f2000000
>                       00 0800 (B) : 1166 0130    pci*
>                       01 0800 (D) : 1014 02bd    obsidian
> 
>      Controller         :           IBM      572C001SISIOA
>       Disk (Generic)    : @00,00,00 IBM-ESXS ST373455SS         73.4GB
>       Disk (Generic)    : @03,00,00 FUJITSU  MAU3073RC          73.4GB
> 
>                       00 1000 (B) : 1166 0130    pci*
>                       02 2000 (D) : 14e4 166a    network [ ethernet ]
>                       02 2100 (D) : 14e4 166a    network [ ethernet ]
>                       00 1800 (B) : 1166 0132    pci*
>                       03 0000 (D) : 4040 0002    network [ ethernet ]
>                       00 2000 (B) : 1166 0132    pci*
>                       00 2800 (B) : 1166 0132    pci*
>                       00 3000 (B) : 1166 0132    pci*
>                       00 3800 (B) : 1022 7460    pci
> 
> 
> ( 600 ) Alignment Exception [ e101fc8 ]
> 
> 
>      R0 .. R7           R8 .. R15         R16 .. R23         R24 .. R31
> 00000000ffffffff   000000010000002f   ffffffffffffffff   000000000000000b
> 000000000e966910   0000010000000000   ffffffffffffffff   0000000000000003
> 000000000e10ea28   000000000e100934   ffffffffffffffff   000000000eac7bc8
> 0000000000000065   000000000e964010   ffffffffffffffff   ffffffffffffffff
> ffffffffffffffff   0000000000000000   ffffffffffffffff   000000000e1010e0
> 000000000e101fc8   00000000f40003f8   ffffffffffffffff   000000000eac82ed
> 000000000e964010   0000000000000000   ffffffffffffffff   0000000000006140
> 0000000000000000   0000000000000000   ffffffffffffffff   000000000e107610
> 
>      CR / XER           LR / CTR          SRR0 / SRR1        DAR / DSISR
>          84ffff88   000000000e101dd4   000000000e101130 
> 000000010000002f
> 00000000000fffff   000000000e1010e0   9000000000001000           00000000

You need a firmware update. But the update is not an official and hard
to get.

The card will work if you plug it into the 16x slot. But then you have
to remove the graphics card of course.

		Adrian