9 Mar
2016
9 Mar
'16
3:09 p.m.
I have two KA-675s for this beast: Board #1 (originally installed) has a
failed B-cache (console reports SUBTEST_35_12, DE_B_Cache_diag_mode.LIS)
and crashes with an asynchronous write memory failure when booting VMS
from CD.
I wonder is there a way to disable the B-cache?
I mention this because I have more than one Alphaserver 1000A with failed
B-cache and I have found it is possible to work around this issue by moving a
jumper on the CPU board to disable the B-cache. The result is that the machine
works with reduced performance.
Regards,
Peter Coghlan.