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

[Jarod Wilson]

Adrian Reber wrote:
> 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.

For now, I've simply yanked the card. I was planning to check out 
dual-head video, so yeah, putting it in the x16 slot won't work... :)

--jarod