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197-075 RS/6000 MCA Systems Expand Communications Features
SUPL Supplement (dead)
197-277 Enhancements for 10/100 Mbps Ethernet MC Adapter
SUPL Supplement (dead)
US5446869 Configuration and RAM/ROM control of PCI extension card residing on MCA adapter card
10/100 Base Card
Daughter Card
Defective 10/100 Ethernet MCA Cards
FC 2694 vs 2994
Drivers for 9-K
10/100 Mbps Ethernet MC Adapter
FRU P/N 07L6601 (FC 2964)
Base Card
J1,2 64-pin mini-C64 female
U5 Adaptec ASIC-9060R BLLA741PT
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Y1 40.0000 MHz osc
Y2 32.0000 MHz osc
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There is a big cut out in the PCB at the bracket end.
Chip date stamps are '97.
Daughter Card P/N 93H3236
DS1 RCV/FDX LEDs
DS2 100/LNK LEDs
J1 RJ-45 connector
P1,2 64-pin mini-C64 male
T1 Pulse PE-68515
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U3 ICS 1890Y PHY (brief)
U4,5 Alliance AS7C256-15JC
U6 AMD AM79C971KC PCnet-Fast
Y1 25.000 MHz osc
Y2 R200H85JT xtal
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Interrupt levels 10, 11, 12, 15
Busmaster 80 MB/sec data streaming
Max 1, 2 or 4 depending on the model number
Defective 10/100 Ethernet MCA Cards (ECA265)
The MCA socket edgecard is NOT beveled on a few 9-K and 9-Q adapters. They
can collapse the spring contacts inside the MCA socket on the planar. You can
(sometimes) pry the spring contacts back into alignment (I know, I had to do it
on my 7012-397).
Feature FRU ASM SYSTEMS
FC2994 P/N 07L6601 P/N 93H7888 7012-Gxx, 7013-Jxx, 7015-RXX
FC2964 P/N 07L6605 P/N 93H8060 7006-4xx, 7009-Cxx, 7012-39X
7013-59x, 7015-99x, 7030-3XT
This adapter can cause permanent damage to the I/O planar when it is being
installed or reseated. The slot pins on the I/O planar can become bent as the
adapter is plugged into the slot.
Important: This adapter should not be reseated, or
reinstalled in any slot once the adapter has been removed from the system for
ANY reason until the adapter has been reworked. The typical failure symptom is
"failure to configure".
Also inspect the I/O Planar slot for bent pins before installing the new
adapter. If pins are bent, replace the I/O planar at the same time you are
replacing the Ethernet card.
Some of the adapters have been reworked to correct the problem, others have
not. To determine if the adapter has the problem, inspect the adapter in the
tab area close to the I/O connector. The defective adapters will have a bottom
edge of the chamfer along the tab that is blunt instead of beveled, (the edge
of the chamfer will be flat rather than "V" shaped). See FIG. 1.
Bad:
FIG. 1
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| 10/100 ETHERNET MCA CARD |
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|______ ___ __________________________|
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large-> \_______/ \_________/ | | <---adapter
chamfer |__|
_ _
I/O slot----> | | | |
| | | | end
| \__/ |<-view
|________|
Good:
___________________________________________________________
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| 10/100 ETHERNET MCA CARD |
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|______ ___ __________________________|
| | | | ____
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round->'---------' '-----------' | | <---adapter
corner | |
_ \/ _
I/O slot----> | | | |
| | | | end
| \__/ |<-view
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Physical Check
In addition, before removing the adapter you should inspect the metal end
plate for a blue dot which indicates that the card has been reworked and should
not be replaced. (see FIG. 2.)
FIG. 2. (end view)
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| O |<------blue dot
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| | | |<------RJ-45 connector
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FC 2964 vs 2994
Feature 2964 (UNI version) 9-K
Feature 2994 (SMP version) 9-Q
Physically FC #2994 and FC #2964 are identical. FC #2964 should only be used
on the UNI machines, FC #2994 can be used on either type of machine. The
electrical difference has to do with the I/O bus hogging issues and
performance.
Increased maximum number of adapters allowed on SMP systems.
Drivers for 9-K
> The chip itself shouldn't be too different, if the big ASIC doesn't
create any problems. I haven't done such a driver modification yet, but Alfred
did it several times ;o)
Alfred Arnold says:
Actually most of the drivers I wrote were written from scratch...
the only one I modified was the NE/2 to get the D-Link card going, which uses
a different way to store its MAC address.
The Adaptec interface chip is the real problem of the 9-K adapter. The AMD
Ethernet controller is well documented, but the problem is getting access to
it. I have a 9-K myself and did a few investigations. The cards maps in a small
I/O window, but this window is too small to map all the AMD's host registers.
Furthermore, since the AMD chip is a PCI chip, you wouldn't see its registers
after power-on anyway. PCI chips have to be configured by the host by assigning
addresses to their PCI configuration registers. On a 'standard' PCI-based
system, this is done by the PCI BIOS. Since this is not present on MCA-based
RS/6000 systems, this job has to be done by the driver, and the Adaptec bridge
must have some capability to perform PCI config space cycles. PCI chips will
remain silent as a grave in the I/O or memory space before they have been
configured (just like an MCA card disabled via the POS registers) How to use
the Adaptec chip to perform this is so far unknown (due to lack of
documentation), the only solutions I could think of would be to
reverse-engineer the AIX driver or to find someone inside IBM who has access to
this information.
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