10 Mar
2016
10 Mar
'16
4:40 a.m.
On Thu, 10 Mar 2016 00:09:02 +0100, Peter Coghlan
<cctalk at beyondthepale.ie> wrote:
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.
Yeah, I wondered about that too, but there's no jumper on the KA-675.
Interestingly the console firmware has no problem with the failed B-cache,
or somehow bypasses it. Booting VMS fails though.
--GT
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