Original post:
> We recently had a second DE500-BA card installed in an alphaserver
> 4000 5/400. This second card went unused(ewb0); it was installed
> for future purposes. We used the factory installed DE500-BA
> (ewa0) for several weeks.
>
> Subsequently this machine was moved to another location.
> And after rebooting and so on the ewa card no longer worked.
> The ewb0 card did work so we switched to that. A new DE500-BA
> was replaced in the ewb0 slot but that doesn't work either.
>
> Anyone have ideas about what's wrong in the PCI cage that may
> be causing this.
Several people have suggested trying to boot from the generic kernel.
But this won't work because although the firmware sees the card in the ewa0
slot, no LEDs on the card ever light(activity and link.)
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Received on Fri Sep 25 1998 - 18:46:36 NZST