qbus emulex esdi controller qd2110402 rev h rom E65G problems

anybody have one of these? I was lucky enough to find the full manual on bitsavers, but it's still not working:( the card came from a mv2 running vms4.7 showing two ~600meg maxtors as dub0: and dub1: but it no longer works. (address jumpering was set to secondary loc, but changed to primary with no other disk controllers in the system) the led error lights all come on in operational mode, and in diag mode (sw2-1 up) and applying a reset via sw1-1 I get: LEDs321 after powerup or reset NNN (the manual says these are the faults) ERROR ONN BUFFER CONTROLLER FAILURE NON HAC TEST FAILED NNO EMULATION FROM FAILED OOO DIAG COMPLETE WITHOUT ERRORS the only odd setting is a jumper J-H which the manual says should be off. when this jumper is removed in test mode, only LED 2 is lit (formatter error) More strangely, with the controller help in reset, the KA650 roms find it's registers showin on the QBUS and report 2 RA81 (which was the working config) some some bu registers and protocol must be work to get that far? swapping the 8031, removing the serial EEPROM and reseating all socketed chips made no change. Anyone seen this failure before? -h