29 Jun
2020
29 Jun
'20
3:53 p.m.
Anyone have experience with the Moto 88k VME boards? I have an MVME197LE that I?m trying
to bring up but it?s staying in BRDFAIL, while SYSCON and RUN are green and pressing RESET
appears to work.
Nothing on console at all. (via a 712 transition module)
Same behavior with the NVRAM removed.
I do have the mezzanine card which has stayed affixed with an interesting inter-board
connection. (Is this separate-able? Should it function without this DRAM?).
I?ll dive deep into debugging this, but if anyone has some tips or experience they could
share it would be appreciated!
Thanks!
-Ryan Brooks
ryan at hack.net
30 Jun
30 Jun
midnight
Make sure the configuration switch for system controller matches the slot
it's in. Fixing the NVRAM seems like a good next step. Not sure I'd remove
the memory mezzanine, I don't think the board can do much without it.
On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 3:53 PM ryan at hack.net ryan--- via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Anyone have experience with the Moto 88k VME boards? I have an MVME197LE
that I?m trying to bring up but it?s staying in BRDFAIL, while SYSCON and
RUN are green and pressing RESET appears to work.
Nothing on console at all. (via a 712 transition module)
Same behavior with the NVRAM removed.
I do have the mezzanine card which has stayed affixed with an interesting
inter-board connection. (Is this separate-able? Should it function
without this DRAM?).
I?ll dive deep into debugging this, but if anyone has some tips or
experience they could share it would be appreciated!
Thanks!
-Ryan Brooks
ryan at hack.net
2:36 p.m.
Even with a dead battery you should have seen console output. I would check
the serial cable, p2 adapter and 712 console port jumpers first.
You could try to boot directly from the eprom which holds the 197bbug(using
the DIP switches) in case the 197bug has been flashed with custom
firmware(never seen this, but who knows). You can remove the 297 expansion
card as 197 has its own memory soldered on the back-side.
On Tuesday, June 30, 2020, ryan at hack.net ryan--- via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Anyone have experience with the Moto 88k VME boards? I have an MVME197LE
that I?m trying to bring up but it?s staying in BRDFAIL, while SYSCON and
RUN are green and pressing RESET appears to work.
Nothing on console at all. (via a 712 transition module)
Same behavior with the NVRAM removed.
I do have the mezzanine card which has stayed affixed with an interesting
inter-board connection. (Is this separate-able? Should it function
without this DRAM?).
I?ll dive deep into debugging this, but if anyone has some tips or
experience they could share it would be appreciated!
Thanks!
-Ryan Brooks
ryan at hack.net
6:29 p.m.
Some progress tonight. Getting this on console with the memory mezzanine disconnected
(see below).
Regardless of what I type I get the Framing Error response and no echoing.
Thanks for any more insights,
Ryan
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Copyright Motorola Inc. 1988 - 1994, All Rights Reserved
MVME197 Debugger/Diagnostics Release Version 1.1 - 06/17/94 (06_17.14)
COLD Start
Local Memory Found =04000000 (&67108864)
WARNING: Configuration Data Failure (Invoke 'ENV' Command)
WARNING: Board Configuration Data Failure
MPU Clock Speed =50Mhz
Initializing local memory...
........00000000........00200000........00400000........00600000........00800000........00A00000........00C00000........00E00000........01000000........01200000........01400000........01600000........01800000........01A00000........01C00000........01E00000........02000000........02200000........02400000........02600000........02800000........02A00000........02C00000........02E00000........03000000........03200000........03400000........03600000........03800000........03A00000........03C00000........03E00000........04000000
Done
Idle MPU(s) : NONE
197-Bug>
--Framing Error--
197-Bug>
--Framing Error--
...
On June 30, 2020 5:36 PM Plamen Mihaylov
<plamenspam at afterpeople.com> wrote:
Even with a dead battery you should have seen console output. I would check the
serial cable, p2 adapter and 712 console port jumpers first.
You could try to boot directly from the eprom which holds the 197bbug(using the DIP
switches) in case the 197bug has been flashed with custom firmware(never seen this, but
who knows). You can remove the 297 expansion card as 197 has its own memory soldered on
the back-side.
On Tuesday, June 30, 2020, ryan at hack.net mailto:ryan at hack.net ryan--- via
cctalk < cctalk at classiccmp.org mailto:cctalk at classiccmp.org > wrote:
> > Anyone have experience with the Moto 88k VME boards? I have an
MVME197LE that I?m trying to bring up but it?s staying in BRDFAIL,...
>
> >
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